The Martial Unity

"HAHAHA!" Kane laughed out loud. "They're calling you the VOIDER. This shit is hilarious!"

Kane leaned forward, caressing his ribs as he laughed his heart out.

"Very funny, Kane," Rui sighed with an amused smile as he let Kane engage in his typical teenage and juvenile humor. "I'm surprised I got an epithet at all. Seems that the gossip community for the dungeon and its adventurers has grown a lot over time."

"Well, of course," Kane shrugged. "I think you forget that we are naturally celebrities in this world, Rui."

"…Perhaps," Rui remarked. He didn't particularly care about that, never had, and never would.

"Though, maybe slaughtering every single monster in a large town-sized area was a bit too much, if you didn't wish to attract attention," Kane chuckled.

That day the two of them successfully bypassed the monsters with Kane's Void Step as planned and harvested all of the esoteric yields from the floor. Yet Rui had had Kane return from the dungeon while he decided to annihilate all the monsters anyway.

"I won't get that many chances to hone my skill without being detected huge proportion of Martial Squires on the floor in the future," Rui had told him back then. "I will push myself to kill all of them and gain more experience, you go back and book our rooms at a lowkey in the same way we did last time."

convince him otherwise, but Rui had been quite adamant. That day later,

"Right now we're behind the frontier of the dungeon, but that will not always remain the case, I intend for us to

nodded. Now that Rui had proven his competencies, Kane could only agree that he wasn't in over his head, not that he had ever seen his friend be so. "Still, remind me

the time we leave the Shionel Confederation, we will have given

know what you're doing, right?" Kane

chuckled. "Several merchants of the Merchant, all of whom are bigshots, are our competitors in the esoteric supplier industries. The merchants of the Shionel Merchant Guild have complete access to the data in the Shionel Adventurer Guild's database. If we pay our taxes legally at the moment, they'll instantly know who we are, looking at the tax registration data. That's not

say that they would inevitably find out?" Kane peered

"I also said that I would need to 'buy' over some

and bits of it,

intend to talk to the right people, or rather,

who would that

person in this nation, of course," Rui replied. "Bradt Patrick. The guildmaster of the Shionel Merchant Guild, and the leader of the libertarian

the Shionel Confederation?" Kane

to the human race to be divided on any and everything. Naturally, there will be power blocs struggling for power, with different visions, policies, and ideals regarding how things ought to be run in the country. The Libertarian Faction is one of them,

Kane's eyes