The Martial Unity

The first thing he did was cough thrice into the back of his hand. "Man, this place sure smells weird, it's itching my throat."

"Hmph, the air is completely normal," Squire Darbun snorted. "You can't even breathe normally, are you even a Martial Squire?"

He could not be bothered to give the slightest bit of a damn about the overzealous insecure juvenile with a crush on his team leader. The three coughs were a signal to Kane that an unexpected danger was due.

Since he knew he would not be able to directly communicate with Kane, he had devised many actions that were coded signals. Scratching his head indicated that Kane needed to leave immediately and hide in some tunnel leading to the floor. A yawn meant that Kane needed to leave the dungeon. He had even devised fifteen separate coded signals that each told Kane which Martial Squire he needed to kill with his knife in some emergency.

Kane immediately stiffened as he became even more vigilant of his surroundings even as maneuvered around the group to maintain Void Step actively.

('Fifteen more seconds,') Rui cursed inwardly. "I don't want to waste any more time, so I'm going head to my assigned location. The rules have already been laid clearly, and remember, we don't need to coordinate from here on out. Cough cough cough."

Rui immediately sky-walked away from the direction that the intruders were coming at a rapid pace without trying to seem too suspicious, in a moment he had already moved a hundred meters away from them.

Two more seconds!

"Hey," Squire Darbun growled. "Where-!"

BAM!

A powerful Martial Squire shot into their sensory range, startling them as they bull-rushed into him hard. A huge swarm of Martial Squires immediately rushed the entire group.

"!!!" The fifteen Voidhunters shook as they immediately entered battle mode at the sudden ambush.

BAM BAM BAM!

thanks to hurriedly moving away from the group under the guise of wanting to begin their operation. This gave him great plausible deniability for the timing since no one could possibly chalk it up to him having known in advance that they were going to attack and thus moving away from the target group at the

the battle even as

surrounded by a few Martial Squires who did not let her escape. The sheer amount of pressure that

BAM BAM BAM!!!

blows. He twisted his body with each attack, generating remarkable power that shook the entirety of the atmosphere violently on the twelfth

than several blows of that caliber even with

were simply no other words for

BAM!!!

withstood the blow with her guard, yet she had not come out unscathed. Her arms were bruising heavily, even swelling visibly, yet they seemed to mend and subside quickly as her

Squire threw a powerful blow, at her face,

WHOOSH

air. Her body coiled around that of her opponent as she began strangling him hard. Her arms locked his arm around himself in a way that strained his

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

her knee borrowed itself into the back of his ribcage

SPLAT

grimaced, gritting her teeth as her back was exposed to

but to let go, but she didn't intend to let him

from around him, yet her arms tightened as she spun about using sky-walking before hurling him down in a wrestling-style throw. She employed several gripping techniques, torque techniques and several

BOOM!

a small district rippled across the atmosphere as her opponent shot

for a grade-ten Martial Squire like him. Yet they

Not at all.