The Martial Unity

Rui was taking a bit of a gamble with his bold brashness, but he knew that it would be impossible to earn the respect and fear needed for the guildmaster to take him seriously. The latter was a tremendously powerful man with power, authority, wealth, and influence that far surpassed anything Rui could deal with in ordinary circumstances.

And they both knew that.

That was why Rui had decided that he needed to convey without a shred of doubt that this wasn't one of those circumstances. Rui would not tolerate being pushed around unduly, or being threatened.

Still, he put on a cool facade, but even his heart skipped a beat when the ground started trembling. He realized that he had underestimated how powerful the Shionel Dungeon was. Had he maintained for even half a second more, a calamity might have occurred.

"H…"

"Hm?" He focused on the guildmaster again with furrowed eyebrows.

"Haha… HAHAHA," The man started guffawing.

That made Rui quite nervous. He had expected that the man would grow unnerved, and would instantly put on a pleasant salesman facade to appease Rui. But instead, he not only seemed unperturbed but also emboldened.

"It's been a while since someone has had the balls to threaten me," He began speaking more informally as his toothy grin widened. He stared at Rui with an intense fixation reflecting in his bloodshot eyes.

widened as he felt

able

same room, he was supposed to be just a normal human that Rui eviscerate with ease. Yet that did not translate into the

say, I'm impressed," He settled down as he regained the composure that he momentarily lost. "Rest assured, brave Squire, I have no intention of enslaving you. Instead, I am quite intrigued at the prospect of

are several issues that need to be addressed. First, your identity. That little trick earlier is noteworthy, but it cannot help you clear dungeons as spectacularly well as you claim you can. Are you

huge bags of bloodfury rabbit tail-ends on the table. "As you can see, I have collected proof for each rabbit I killed. You can conduct tests and verify that the time of death of the tissue is around the same as the time of death of the corpses, and I'm sure the missing tails have

expected something of this sort, he did not show any immediate reactions to the

that I even bothered going through such a tedious task at all," Rui shrugged. "Though I can always provide greater corroborating proof in the future if need be.

your way to gather this evidence when clearing the second floor, means that you had planned this well ahead

Rui shrugged, not replying.

as Rui was not willing to

Rui messed up in this particular regard, he would not laugh it

Squires in the room moved forward as they opened the various books, unfolding the pages as they each formed large maps that mapped the surface level of the dungeon and the vicinity of the first floor

widened as he beheld remarkably detailed and precise maps. The tunnels were

which direction, something that was almost impossible to do due

was unable to hide his greed and amazement. "… Is far more detailed and precise than I was expecting while also abiding by the norms of the field cartography, I can see