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.

to buy their

esoteric

with information," Rui replied, calmly. "Specifically, an extremely detailed map of the entire layout of the Shionel

"Why

abruptly as a

smiled. "Remember how shit the maps

out and spread a folded piece of paper that turned into

all extremely abstract since all the floors are

already knew that they

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 seriously,

this map offers is very little, which probably means they don't

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

"But will that be enough? After all, even with the information that they have, the exploration process is still ongoing, it doesn't seem

wrong," Rui replied. "However, it could be accelerated if they possessed accurate and precise information of the entire

could one gain from it beyond the exploration?" Kane

Dungeon's value exceeds just the booming business that it brings to Shionel Merchant Guild and the Shionel Confederation, and the esoteric organic and mineral resource supplies. It's long-term value lies in

entirety of the process of exploration and plundering is