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.

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

course, it wasn't likely, but Rui

he had acted

the man's body, finding some cash and a communication device, both of which he took. There was nothing

one foot up

THUD!!

several meters deep, tossing the corpse in it. Within five minutes, he

hands, dusting them off. "Time

was necessary to keep them in the loop as soon as he

turned, facing south. That was where the

RUMBLE!

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

how long it took him to reach the

Rui could sense a large number of people within the warehouse, huddled together. It was

no

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 headed toward the entrance to

are you and where the fuck do

armed guards stopped

here to kill Faraday Lowminer." Rui simply

shock and anger that emerged on their faces.

THWACK

his hand across

broke loose as the commotion attracted the attention of the rest of the security

his Mind Mask and watched them all freeze in fear, studying their reactions.

running through them like they were light curtains. Deeper inside the facility was what

BAM!

shocking the many people

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

their muskets and other projectile weapons,

disappeared from