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.

should have kept him alive in case the location was wrong so that he could extract the real

likely, but Rui was

however, he had

head. He quickly scoured the man's body, finding some cash and a communication device, both of

raised one foot up

THUD!!

In an instant, he had created a crater several meters deep, tossing the corpse in it. Within five minutes, he had buried the body in soil and had completely

dusting them off.

them in the loop as soon as he got access to

was where

RUMBLE!

ground shook as he dashed away at incredible speeds.

that's how long it took him to reach the location that the Martial Apprentice had given

accurate, this was a good sign. Rui could sense a large number of people within the warehouse, huddled together.

no reason

He 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

stopped him. "Who are you and where the fuck

of armed guards

here to kill Faraday Lowminer."

shock and anger that emerged on their faces. Their

THWACK

waved his hand across

commotion attracted the attention of the rest of the

watched them all freeze in fear, studying their reactions. He was trying to gauge how confident

inside the facility was what appeared to be a locked section. Rui could sense the tunnel

BAM!

through, shocking the many

downwards. There were storage vehicles that entered and exited the tunnel. There were many men loading and unloading

projectile weapons,

simply disappeared from