The Martial Unity

"Is that everything?" Rui asked from under a mask.

"No, just a few more signatures here and here," A support staff member of the Shionel Merchant Guild replied, pointing to where he needed to sign. Rui quickly nodded, following through.

"And that's everything, Mr. Falken," She replied with a smile. "Congratulations, you are now officially a merchant of the Shionel Merchant Guild."

"Thank you," Rui replied, smiling.

"Here is the guild-issued key that will allow you to identify yourself as the owner of your new company," She handed him a key. "Be sure to never lose it, otherwise your identity can be usurped and your company could potentially be taken."

"I understand," Rui nodded. "I do appreciate the warning."

About three days had passed since Bill C-16 had been passed in the Shionel Confederation. A rush to anonymously create a company in the Shionel Confederation without the need for identity registration had formed. It was clear that, for whatever reasons, a lot of people had compunctions about registering their real identity in the Shionel Merchant Guild, thus this new amendment was quite welcome to all these people.

Rui walked out, before running towards the inner ring of the Adventurer Town. He didn't want to take any chances, in case Guildmaster Bradt managed to track his location, being near the dungeon increased his security since he could use it as a threat, and quite the effective one at that.

"You're here," Kane noted. "Is it done?"

a merchant now," Rui

Artist merchant,"

this nation, quite strange, isn't

your new company when

use while I'm here, but I have no care for it once we leave

disappeared into thin air before returning back to their inn in the outer

with the Void Step and the Riemannian Echo, that Kane and Rui possessed, and Martial Seniors couldn't go anywhere near the Shionel Dungeon without

that they were associated with the identity of

"So, what now?"

all out and begin doing what we originally came here for," Rui explained. "We have the cover for our identity as well as sufficient backing. We have the means of selling

the name of the company, again?" Kane

you would call it the 'Void Supplies Company,' or something like that.

for investigation, not even the guildmaster will be able to protect us in that case without being charged with obstruction of justice," Rui replied calmly. "Being lowkey is better in this case. Although some people will still figure it out,

they are completely unable

still engage in their own investigations, the people who will be pissed off by us are not incompetent and incapable. Each of the hundred cabinet ministers of the Shionel Merchant Guild is a chairmen or president of the top hundred companies of the Shionel Confederation across all industries and

here I thought we

knew that this would be far from a

two of them immediately began preparing for their next dungeon raid after they reached home. The time for politics was over, and the time for plundering the Shionel Dungeon in earnest had