The Martial Unity

The two of them left the corpse of the Martial Squire behind, Rui had no intention of lugging the corpse back to the surface in order to return it to her dependents or friends. It seemed that she had entered the dungeon alone too, as opposed to being part of a party.

"Alright, what do we do?" Kane asked, turning to Rui.

"Our goal is to harvest all the esoteric ores of this floor," Rui explained. "The biggest threat on this floor is the bite from the taipan which would kill us. The simplest way to avoid them is by sky-walking, however, if we do that, we cannot get at the esoteric ores that are on and beneath the ground."

Rui calmly analyzed the situation that they were in. "I would rather avoid combat with the serpents. This is different from the second floor where the rabbits, while very dangerous, were not extremely lethal. Here, even if I chop up all of the taipans, there is still the chance that I would get bitten by a surviving head hiding under the pile of corpses and flesh that I would leave behind. My Riemannian Sense is different from Primordial Instinct in the sense that its affinity for combat is not too great."

Primordial instinct was simply his danger sense and risk evaluation sense highly trained to detect and counter threats based on the sensory data that he naturally gathered from all of his senses. The latter was hampered, thus Primordial Instinct was also naturally hampered.

However, that did not mean that the Riemannian Sense could replace Primordial instinct. It was not an instinctual sense and was actually closer to reading a language than it was sensing his surroundings.

"That makes sense," Kane nodded. "So it's a simple plan of harvesting the esoteric ores on the ground when we're in stealth, and then moving back to the air when I time out, right?" Kane asked.

"It's a simple plan but entirely effective," Rui replied. "However, we cannot go too high, I don't want to be spotted by others even if their senses are hampered and it wouldn't really matter."

"Wouldn't that mean that we're within their striking range?" Kane asked.

to the ground and won't be able to hurt me from the ground. Furthermore, all the attacks would come from only one direction, down. Dealing with attacks coming from one direction is vastly easier than

that as long as he could turn his back up to the ceiling of the floor without fearing an attack on his back, he could handle even a barrage of snake

his arm on Rui's back before the two of

was difficult for many Martial Squires to safely identify all of the snakes ahead of time. They would need

hand, not only knew the locations of all the snakes within a few kilometers of radius around him but also verified that they could not sense him thanks to Void Step. Thus the two of them were confident that as long as they

to extract both the mineral and organic ores from the land and from the roots

when he extracted mineral and organic ores right in front of the faces of

technique,') Rui grinned

PAT PAT PAT

him twice, indicating that he was about a minute away from his limit. Even though one minute was no different to a Martial Squire than an hour, Rui did not want to take any risks whatsoever. One minute was

draw his weapons and kill all of them before at least

Kane elevated himself a meter higher

SHING

his scabbard before the

three snakes shot up from the ground, lunging meters high

"SSSSK!"

recoiled in a sonic boom

the second they reached Rui, the world suddenly went dark for them. They lost all sight, awareness, and even