The Martial Unity

This meant that Rui had underestimated the kind of information that Chairman Deacon was able to gather. Of course, this wasn't a particularly deep fault on his end, but due to a lack of understanding of how deep the intelligence-gathering capabilities of Deacon industries were. He remembered feeling somewhat similarly about Guildmaster Bradt Patrick, who had also exceeded his expectations. Perhaps he needed to reevaluate how he evaluated other normal human beings.

('At least I can be more careful from here on out,') Rui mused to himself. It was a miscalculation, but fortunately, it was the more benign kind rather than the damning kind. However, now that he saw that Chairman Deacon had access to this kind of information, he could more or less figure out how he had come about such information.

('He must have extensively gathered the descriptive accounts of Martial Squires who have been to the twelfth floor, in a combination with his own personal Martial Squires who must have done some basic scouting and surveillance in the dungeon.') Rui figured.

However, he was once more in a predicament where he could not drastically cause any change in patterns without causing Chairman Deacon to grow suspicious about it.

He would need to purposely fall for their traps to at least a minor extent, meaning he would need to abide by their predictions. He would need to ensure that he didn't get an image of him taken, and certainly ensure that he didn't get captured, that would be game over without any shred of a doubt.

Voider would then know that someone was specifically targeting him. Thus any countermeasures that the Voider took after that would not be suspicious given his obvious awareness of some group actively hunting him in the Shionel Dungeon

In this case, they had to move away and ensure that there were no redundancies in the areas in which they were surveilling. They had to keep their recorders on standby and capture the images of all the Martial Squires who appeared in their vicinity and observe their harvesting. The Voider undoubtedly possessed an unparalleled ability to extract esoteric mineral and organic ore deposits from the Shionel Dungeon, thus any Martial Squire that extracted resources in a strange manner at a rate that far exceeded the standard means could be reasonably assumed

that would get into a fight with the Voider had a high chance of dying. The sheer combat ability demonstrated by them when they soloed the second floor was immense. Thus they were suspected to be an S-rank

all, if they died in the process of picking a fight with them, then the data that they had recorded would also be lost. Since communications were also highly jammed in the Shionel Dungeon, any recording from recording devices could not

had this information, and it was more important than gambling trying to take down a dangerous ability unprepared around his abilities. If the opportunity to fight and kill

the importance of gathering

them even if they're standing

showed that Chairman Deacon valued information on the Voider more than just killing the Voider, at

means that I'm using to extract the esoteric resources of the Shionel Dungeon as