The Martial Unity

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kane raised an eyebrow.

"It means that if we partake in ordinary measures in the dungeon, and accomplish ordinary results, there won't be any problem in going the ordinary route," Rui explained. "But have you forgotten our objective?"

"Clearing the dungeon, right?"

"Right, we want to explore the dungeon and plunder it before everyone else," Rui nodded. "The other objective is to earn enough money to fund all expenses, some of which are going to be a bit extravagant. However, while we have made sure to equip ourselves to outdo our competition in the dungeon, that doesn't necessarily mean the same is true for all matters outside the dungeon."

Kane's eyes narrowed a bit, as he realized what he was walking about. "You mean Shionel Merchant Guild, and the market for the resources of the Shionel Dungeon?"

"Right," Rui nodded. "Let's say we do succeed in achieving our first goal, we make greater progress than our competition and end up plundering all of the esoteric material resources from the dungeon for ourselves, and selling it ourselves, what do you think would happen?"

"…We'd gain a ton of money, and the Martial Artists who would enter floors after we do would gain close to nothing?" Kane scratched his head.

of the continent would simply sigh

with a personal vested interest in the esoteric resources that were being extracted from the Shionel Dungeon. The sudden supply of high-grade esoteric substances was capable of shifting the economy, industries, and

interests was nothing short of a foolish blunder that would get him killed on

action against us," Kane's eyes narrowed. "But that's only if they come to know that it was us who managed to bypass monsters and plunder all the resources in the dungeon. With my Void Step, isn't that basically an impossibility? How

his lack of understanding of how the world worked often

if we do choose to sell it, then at some point, we need to hand it over to a third party in a transaction, be that a customer from the consumer market, a retailer, or a large-scale supplier. That cannot be hidden, and even if

data leaks to occur if they handled things normally. Martial Art techniques only worked in avenues of physical conflict, they were not useful in the world

expression grew a little troubled at

to submit twenty percent of our plunder to the Shionel Merchant Guild, unless you have

external Martial Artists in a mission," Kane sighed. "That way we wouldn't have to be too concerned with backlash as we would have other comrades that would be with us. Any force

would be too suffocating," Rui