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.

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

it wasn't likely, but Rui

time, however, he had

his head. He quickly scoured the man's body, finding some cash and a communication device, both of which he took. There was nothing else of

one foot up

THUD!!

meters deep, tossing the corpse in it. Within

dusting them off. "Time to

Union on the intel 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

turned, facing south. That was where the location of the

RUMBLE!

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

seconds, that's how long it took him to reach the location that

huddled together. It was

no

the odd stares that the people inside gave him. He was clearly not one of them. There appeared to be helpers who aided the needy, they too threw confused looks at him. Rui

him. "Who are you and

of armed guards stopped

to kill Faraday Lowminer." Rui simply

on their faces. Their reactions supported the claim that the

THWACK

waved his hand across the two guards, killing

commotion attracted the attention of the rest of the security

fear, studying their reactions. He was trying to gauge

inside the facility was what appeared to be

BAM!

shocking the

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

raised their muskets and other projectile weapons, yet they never

disappeared