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 location from

it wasn't likely, but Rui was normally quite careful on

however, he had acted

shaking his head. He quickly scoured the man's body, finding some cash and a

raised one foot up in the

THUD!!

In an instant, he had created a crater several meters deep, tossing the

hands, dusting them

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

where the location

RUMBLE!

ground shook as he dashed away at incredible speeds. The air

him to reach the location that the Martial Apprentice

huddled together. It was a cramped location. Seismic

was no reason to

clearly not one of them. There appeared to be helpers who aided the needy, they too

you and where the fuck

bunch of armed

here to kill Faraday Lowminer."

faces.

THWACK

hand across the two guards,

hell broke loose as the commotion attracted the attention of the

studying their reactions. He was trying to gauge how confident they were

facility was what appeared to be a

BAM!

broke through, shocking the many people

were storage vehicles that entered

immediately raised their muskets and other projectile weapons, yet they never had

disappeared from their