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."

the midst of sixteen Martial Squires

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 care if we're slower, it's better

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

head. "There is no close-knit team, we need to surveil a large area, thus we're spread out, there is absolutely no benefit to grouping in dense areas. Thus none of the Voidhunters will actually be sensing me, since we're supposed to

eyebrows as he considered the matter and all the issues surrounding it. "That

of

laughed. It was such a diabolical plan, but

had worked out a really good system prior and had even practiced, thus any changes to

the safety measures including the forewarning time, as well as the minimum

a way to ensure that he didn't screw up matters for himself. These measures aided in that and ensured that the probability of something

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 over which that they would

that to ensure that

made all the preparations that they needed

was not one to be satisfied with basic half-assed measures as opposed