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.

the location was wrong so that he could extract

wasn't likely, but Rui was normally quite careful

he had acted

and a communication

one foot up in

THUD!!

cratering past the soil. 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 covered it, and flattened the

hands, dusting

them in the loop as soon as he got access to

turned, facing south. That was where the location of

RUMBLE!

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

to reach the location that

large number of people within the warehouse, huddled together. It

was no

that the people inside gave him. He was clearly not one of them. There appeared to be helpers who aided the needy,

are you and where

of armed

kill Faraday Lowminer." Rui simply

on their faces. Their reactions supported the claim that the

THWACK

waved his hand across the two guards, killing

loose as the commotion attracted the

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

dashed forward, running through them like they were light curtains. Deeper inside the facility was what appeared to be a locked

BAM!

through, shocking the many

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

projectile weapons, yet they never had a chance

disappeared from