The Martial Unity

"Well, looks like that gate has opened," Rui gestured. "I guess this is it."

He glanced at the two of them who had mixed expressions, sighing. "I know how it feels, but your future is your future. You will have plenty of time to spend time with your family when you graduate, if that is what you desire just like I am doing at the moment. So cheer up, okay?"

The two of them smiled at those words, nodding.

"Thank you, brother, we wouldn't be here without you,"

It wasn't long before he could only watch their figures disappear into the massive crowd that was pouring into the Martial Academy.

('Well, their training is no longer something I will be guide,')

This wasn't a bad thing. Martial Apprentices were meant to make their own decisions when it came to Martial Art. This was a sacred principle that not even the strictest of Martial families violated. Forcibly interfering once the Martial Path was absolutely detrimental to their progress. All influencing of the Martial Path was done prior to the breakthrough to the Apprentice Realm.

The Martial Union even made it a crime that could be enforced and penalized over, by virtue of the judiciary authority they possessed according to the jurisdiction of Martial criminality clause of the Kandrian Martial Covenant, to try and force Martial Artists to change or alter their Martial Path in any way.

('The Squire mentors of the Martial Academy are highly qualified and experienced, they know what lines they ought not to cross,') Rui smiled warmly as he fondly looked back at his time with Squire instructors Kyrie and Dylon.

He had gained a lot more respect for them after having become a Martial Squire and having trained guided Martial Apprentices. He had come to understand exactly what it meant to be a Martial Squire capable of guiding Martial Apprentices to the Squire Realm while also being high-grade Martial Squires themselves.

Rui, at the moment, could not be considered a high-grade Martial Squire. That was reserved for Martial Squires above grade six, which he was not, at the moment.

"Anyways, time to head back ho-… Ah," Rui smiled as recalled something. "I actually have something to check up on."

drew as he navigated his way through the town of Hajin, before

was quite large, featuring a great volume inside, and a great many weapons on the

crowd of people wandered about, looking

and only one of them was a Martial Squire. Rui ignored them as he went

went deeper into the building, his ears pricked as

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

peered into a large workroom at the other end of the building from where

bright white, rather than orange, Rui could feel the prickling heat of

BANG!

towards the source

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

gargantuan man swinging a big hammer down on a

Rui smiled, calling

work?" He turned around, glancing at Rui with squinted eyes. "Ah, Squire brat.

was just wondering how went the forging of two products

of the sort in a long time and appreciated the nostalgic feeling

Rui had come to

the basis of a technique meant to be extremely effective against the monsters of the Shionel Dungeon,"