The Martial Unity

Rui put his thoughts aside as they were attacked multiple times after the first attack. Sometimes it was hippogriffs, other times it was larger wild cats, and sometimes it was aerial beasts.

Yet each time they were attacked, the Martial Apprentices and the canons fired, warding off beasts before they could even come closer to the convoy. Most creatures that attacked them either died or got hurt enough to simply run away. Ultimately. Most creatures in the animal kingdom had a strong sense of survival that prevented them from fighting highly dangerous battles that would likely result in them getting butchered.

After many hours of agonizingly slow travel, they finally reached the core of the Serevian Plateau.

The land had suddenly and sharply elevated highly at a particular point, just as Rui had remembered it.

The only question was how the carriages of the dungeon team were going to travel up all the way to the surface of the elevated land.

That had also been planned by the Ministry. The convoy veered to the side as they traveled parallelly to the Serevian Dungeon before they happened upon a particularly large cave that was much larger than any of the ones that they had run into prior. The cave had been located prior to the commencement of the mission when searching for a cave that would allow the dungeon team convoy to reach the surface of the Serevian Dungeon.

The convoy temporarily broke formation as the carriages proceeded one by one through the large cave, following a particular path that brought them to the surface. The Martial Apprentices had secured the entrance and exit of the cave and had also scouted the path ahead of time to make sure that there weren't any hostile Apprentice-level animals that would pose a threat to the particularly more vulnerable carriages of the convoy.

the final armored carriage finally pushed itself up to the surface of

time

carriages began to change as certain devices began growing out of it. Several devices resembling satellites had formed atop

knew what they were for. Not only because the mission bill had spoken about them, but also because they

team was supposed to gather environmental data before that

back home would process the data and choose

sovereign nation in the Serevian Dungeon was extremely important. According to the Serevian Pact that the twelve countries that laid claim to the territory of the Serevian Dungeon, the territory that each sovereign nation declared as its core territory would be, as sworn by all nations, uninfringeable and unseizable by any

The choice was important enough that it would permanently impact the outcome of

of the operation back home in the Kandrian

nations, risk of getting attacked by Apprentice-level beasts. It also needed to take into account the distance from the edge and the cost and

also needed to take into account the evaluation of mining viability and resource

fencing was erected for basic protection as the defensive squad and the armed and armored carriages also