The Martial Unity

There were several courses of action that he could take. The first one was, of course, the most straightforward course of action. He could just storm in and start interrogating the people running the show.

But the odds were high that that would alert the target of his mission before Rui actually reached him. First, he would be assuming that the people there were actually aware of the location of their ringleader. Second, even if they were aware, he needed to be careful of how he extracted the data from Faraday's men. It was risky.

Even if he killed all of them after interrogating them, there was a high chance that Faraday would find out about the leak and would immediately scram, making Rui's job even harder.

The probability that the target of his mission was waiting at this location was, of course, unlikely. Rui was relatively certain this was merely the location where the drugs were sold and distributed. The actual location where they were received and processed was likely not at this particular location, which was clearly just a commercial outpost.

('Barging in is risky.') Rui noted. ('I should nab a Martial Apprentice and interrogate him separately.')

It didn't take long for the masked Martial Apprentice to leave the flower shop. Rui waited for the right moment.

WHOOSH

One moment the Martial Apprentice was simply walking minding his own business, and the next moment he was gone.

A few random people who were near him turned, and glanced at the spot he was just at in confusion, before shrugging and going on about their day.

In a distant remote alley away from the commercial district, Rui dropped the man to the ground. Although Rui had moved extremely quickly, the Martial Apprentice had still struggled to break free from his grip while they were moving. Too bad that in front of him, even a grade ten martial Apprentice was no different from a child compared to a sports athlete.

The Martial Apprentice dashed away the second he was dropped to the ground, yet Rui simply tore off his Mind Mask.

"Freeze." He said calmly.

masked Martial Apprentice froze on the spot as if

was a powerful

upon the area as the masked

that Rui could kill him with the slightest exertion of

"You're of the Lowminers,

as he realized what all this

you're not sticking with the Lowminers out of sheer loyalty. Faraday Lowminer must be paying you heftily

reply, but he

or being honest," Rui told him. "I can accurately determine

wasn't that convenient. With Primordial Instinct, Rui could gauge emotion and intention in normal people to a certain degree. He could tell the difference between the sincere truth and a complete lie, but when things were a mix of both, he had no idea what was

truthfully. If you lie, I will inflict horrific suffering on you. I won't let you die. You will suffer at my hands and at the hands of the Kandrian martial Union until you spit out the truth. This doesn't need to happen if you speak

He nodded nervously.

then." Rui calmly asked him. "Where is Faraday

a moment of silence before the Martial Apprentice opened his mouth to

at our main base of operations, in an underground

the Martial Apprentice gave him as he carefully studied the man

Rui noted. "Where is this homeless

of the commercial districts." The man quickly

districts as a way to distribute drugs without attracting much attention, I suppose it's not feasible to have their

address, be as precise and accurate as you can," Rui

carefully eyed the man as the latter spat out an address,

Trying to throw me off?"

truth!" He exclaimed, repeating the address again, being more descriptive this time.