The Martial Unity

He stared at Rui with fearful eyes. Rui calmly returned his stare with an icy one of his own.

"ACK!" He choked as Rui grabbed him by the neck.

"I know it was no more than an assignment for you." Rui strengthened his grip. "I know it wasn't personal for you."

He brought the man's face closer.

"But honestly?" Rui asked. "I don't give a damn."

"...!" The Martial Apprentice's face grew red. He felt as though his head was going to burst. He struggled desperately, trying to pry Rui's hands off his neck while kicking Rui with all the Apprentice-level technique he could.

In vain, of course.

His measly attacks couldn't even budge Rui even when he wasn't using any Squire-level defensive techniques.

The Martial Apprentice's eyelids fluctuated as his vision blurred.

The brain tended to automatically shut down when blood flow to it was shut down for more than seven seconds.

Rui clenched his grip, squeezing down hard.

SNAP

A Martial Apprentice's body was fundamentally human, barring the brain. Rui didn't even need to use Outer Convergence to snap his neck with ease, killing him on the spot.

THUD

He dropped his body to the ground, sighing.

('Not the most rational decision.') He had enough self-awareness to realize that wasn't the best decision he could have made. Maybe the Martial Apprentice had mastered some mental technique that allowed him to fool Rui's Primordial Instinct. Maybe the location that he had given Rui was wrong and fake, and he successfully fooled Rui using that technique.

the location was wrong so that he could extract the real location from

likely, but Rui was

however, he had acted

finding some cash and a communication device, both

raised one foot up in

THUD!!

crater several meters deep, tossing the corpse in it. Within five minutes, he had buried the body in soil and had completely covered it, and flattened

He clapped his hands, dusting them off. "Time

he had acquired, through the communication device. It was necessary to keep them in the loop as soon as he got access to new intel, a policy that ensured that Martial Artists did not die before conveying

south. That was where the location of

RUMBLE!

very ground shook as he dashed away at incredible speeds. The air recoiled as a sonic boom

it took him to reach the location that the Martial Apprentice

was a good sign. Rui could sense a large number of people within the warehouse, huddled together. It was a cramped location. Seismic Mapping detected an underground layout as

was no reason to

was clearly not one of them. There appeared to be helpers who aided the needy, they too threw confused looks at him. Rui simply ignored all of them as he headed toward

stopped him. "Who are you and where the

of armed guards stopped

to kill Faraday Lowminer." Rui simply

anger that emerged on their faces. Their

THWACK

hand across the two guards, killing them

the attention of the rest of the

simply tore off his Mind Mask and watched them all freeze in fear, studying their reactions. He was

facility was what appeared to be a locked section. Rui could

BAM!

through, shocking

the ground that inclined downwards. There were storage vehicles that entered

and other projectile weapons, yet they never had a chance to fire

simply disappeared from