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.

alive in case the location was wrong so that he could extract

Rui was

he

scoured the man's body, finding some cash and a communication

foot up in the

THUD!!

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

then." He clapped his hands, dusting them

communication device. It was necessary to keep them in the loop as soon as he

south. That was where

RUMBLE!

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

took him to reach the location that the Martial Apprentice

within the warehouse, huddled together. It was a cramped location. Seismic Mapping detected an underground layout as well, whose only entrance was at the center of

no

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

man stopped him. "Who are you and where

bunch of armed guards stopped

to kill Faraday Lowminer." Rui simply

looks of shock and anger that emerged on their faces. Their reactions supported the claim that the target of his

THWACK

waved his hand across the

loose as the commotion attracted the attention of

in fear, studying their reactions. He was trying to gauge how

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

BAM!

through, shocking the many

ground that inclined downwards. There were storage vehicles that entered and exited the tunnel. There were many men loading and unloading boxes, filled with drugs

guards immediately raised their muskets and other projectile weapons, yet

disappeared