The Martial Unity

"The conditions for us are avoiding the eyes of the ones whose interests we are clashing with, and two, to placate the interests of those whose eyes we cannot avoid," Rui explained. "As long as we can fulfill these two conditions, we can go all out without holding back in the Shionel Dungeon."

"And let me guess," Kane smiled wryly. "You have a way of doing both, correct?"

"Just right," Rui smirked.

"First, regarding the Martial Union. We cannot avoid their eyes forever, but we can delay them," Rui explained.

"And how would you go about that?" Kane asked.

"We can create a red herring," Rui explained. "It's not that difficult to plant false information and throw them off-guard for a while. Once you understand how information flows, manipulating it becomes far more feasible. Traveling to separate destinations, paying off information brokers, and commissioning copycats to take our place from the local Martial Art group will hinder them to a certain extent."

"That makes sense," Kane nodded. "Though what do we do when they get us eventually? Isn't that back to square one?"

"True, but we will have obtained at least some time without them breathing down our backs," Rui tutted.

"What do we do then?" Kane wondered with a raised eyebrow.

have to buy

esoteric supplies?" Kane

an extremely detailed map of the

frowned. "Why would such

abruptly as a

"Remember how

out and spread a folded piece

they're all extremely abstract since all the floors are represented with identical circles," Rui tapped

of each floor since he already knew that they were not circular,

one set of routes between floors are depicted despite the fact that there were countless tunnels mazing in and out. Furthermore, the distances between each of the floors is identical on map. None of this is meant to be treated

official maps that we purchased from the Martial Union, the actual information that this map offers is very little, which probably means they don't actually have any accurate and precise information on the locations of anything in the topography

of human-level. Light is scarce too. How on Earth are they going to accurately map the entirety of the Shionel Dungeon dome that's sixty kilometers wide? The sheer volume of the dungeon is enough to comfortably fit the population of a large country. They cannot use sophisticated technology because Martial Artists are utterly incompetent at any technical matter, and technology would face the same problem as the Martial Squires. Nor can they rely on actual cartographers who create maps for a living since no ordinary human can enter the Shionel Dungeon," Rui

After all, even with the information that they have, the exploration process is still ongoing, it doesn't seem

not wrong," Rui replied. "However, it could be accelerated if they possessed accurate and precise information of the entire dungeon.

could one gain from it beyond the exploration?" Kane

to Shionel Merchant Guild and the Shionel Confederation, and the esoteric organic and mineral resource supplies. It's long-term value lies in its potential for real estate," Rui

once the entirety of the process of exploration and