The Martial Unity

The Martial Union had dispatched dozens of Martial Apprentices, and several Martial Squires, all of them belonging to the Longranger Sect and each having a Martial Path centered around long-range techniques.

Rui could sense the dense sense of power emanating from the Veomine Eagle. "Those idiots, they were told to lay low until authorized otherwise."

He quickly headed to the conference room, where they had all gathered to meet Senior Ceeran.

"But sir, why can't we just take ove-!"

THUD

Rui slammed the doors open, inspecting the Martial Artists who had arrived.

They all stared at Rui as their eyes scanned him from top to bottom, sizing him up. Rui could sense surprise and caution in their demeanors, and it was understandable. He was supposed to be a grade four Martial Squire, but for some reason, he had an overwhelming aura that they had seldom sensed within the Squire Realm.

donned his mind mask from the moment he had arrived at the island without ever having taken it off. Appearing much stronger than he was gave his words more gravitas, and

seriously by these Martial Squires who mistakenly thought they were weaker than him thanks to the projected power

good members of the Longranger Sect that I have handpicked as recommendations for Derun. I'm sure

Squire Quarrier, the leader of this diplomatic mission. As I'm sure you've all been informed, the objective of this mission is to obtain several potent and exotic long-range techniques. The settlement operation that you have all been deployed as a part of is our plan at obtaining the techniques they want. When the time comes, you will all have the

him on the first day, or ever. He could try and earn their respect by demonstrating the Void Pathfinder technique, but that ran the risk of revealing it to the G'ak'arkan Tribe.

want to accelerate the construction too much because that would draw too much attention. The machinery and equipment needed

large esoterically-derived machinery was reduced and a larger proportion of the

was being constructed, Rui could already see the perimeter

supplies to complete the security measures had already begun

was to create multiple layers of fencing around the marked area. Thankfully, the process was relatively simple as already prepared building blocks for the necessary constructs made assembling the

across the marked perimeter. Until the security measures were complete, they would take shifts watching

security measures slowly came into place, and

between the ship and the hill that the settlement would be built upon was constructed. The necessary goods and supplies flew through, as

and thus their quarters were placed in