The Martial Unity

"So you're telling me the super powerful merchant guy that we pissed off is forming a literal hunting team to gather information on us so that he can eventually take us out?" Kane frowned.

"Right," Rui nodded.

He had informed Kane about everything he had learned. After all, he couldn't withhold such information that had an impact on Kane.

"Alright, so what are we gonna do?" Kane asked.

Rui smiled back wordlessly. He had entertained the possibility of Kane quitting which would not be unreasonable. But he appreciated his friend's loyalty and commitment.

"You don't have to do this if you don't want to," Rui reminded him, just to make sure. "You can just leave it to me if this becomes too much at any given point."

Although things would become far harder for him, Rui did not want to use this as a justification to pressure his best friend to tag along with him in crazy circumstances.

"Don't worry about it, I intend to see this through to the end," he lightly said. "So what is it that we are going to about this predicament?"

"We cannot avoid it," Rui explained. "At least, now that I've joined the Voidhunters, any indications that the Voider learned of the plans to gather as much information on him as possible will put the sixteen Voidhunters in suspicion. That's far too much suspicion on me, and I cannot allow that to happen."

in the midst of sixteen Martial Squires that are literally there only

chance of detecting us with your Void Step, however, we need to be more careful about how we use it from here on out," He explained. "From here on out, you indicate your time limit warning three minutes ahead of time, then I will locate a place where we can safely reach and dismount. Preferably even in tunnels and stuff like that. Going to such degrees is worth it, I don't

though?" Kane scratched his head, confused. "Won't they immediately realize since you wouldn't be part

absolutely no benefit to grouping in dense areas. Thus none of the Voidhunters will actually be sensing me, since we're supposed to cover as much area as we can with no overlaps, which requires being outside of each other's sensory ranges. Although we have a general idea where each of us is supposed to be,

furrowed his eyebrows as he considered the matter and all the issues surrounding

successfully harvesting all of the esoteric deposits from right under their

was such a diabolical plan,

worked out the details of how they would handle this particular extraction mission, they had worked out a really good system prior and had even practiced, thus

end, Rui increased the safety measures including the forewarning time, as well as the minimum distance that they maintained

the probability that something that bad would happen. He needed to find a way to ensure that he didn't screw

that their harvest was not going to be as great. Since they would be spending less time on mining the deposits from the land of the twelfth floor, but would also be reducing the net area

more than just an acceptable trade to Rui, he was more than willing to allow that to ensure that there was no way that he could possibly be overwhelmed by these circumstances and that nothing went

they had more or less made all the preparations that they needed to

still wasn't done. He was not one to be satisfied with basic half-assed measures as opposed to very concrete ways