The Martial Unity

That declaration came as a bit of a shock, but, in hindsight, it shouldn't have.

('I can see why she wants to leave the place whose negligence and enemies caused the death of the people she cared the most for,') Rui completely understood her decision.

The other two surviving Martial Squires also followed suit when they saw that even the strongest Martial Squire among them refused to continue working under Chairman Deacon.

"I think I too can't afford to continue under this contract,"

"I did not come to the Shionel Confederation to get embroiled in some kind of political conflict,"

The three Martial Squires left the room, leaving only Rui left.

To his credit, Chairman Deacon did not seem fazed by them leaving. He turned towards Rui with a blank expression "What about you?"

Rui considered his next course of action, he had not expected that the three other survivors would exit the equation this quickly, and that was a bit of an unexpected outcome.

At the moment, he could choose to stay or leave. Regardless of which outcome he chose, he did not have much to say.

"I'm not too inclined to leave just yet," Rui replied.

Martial Squires stronger than you leaving the Voidhunter

follow, I just very well might decide to leave as well. So, I suppose I am interested in hearing what you have

Deacon raised an

as a part of the Voidhunters if you are willing to grant some guarantees as a bare minimum. For one, I do not wish to partake in any official mission since it's clear that whoever your enemy is,

level of independence makes it pointless to even

grant independence according to the contract?"

do, but at the very least, you're registered as a Voidhunter in official

this," Rui replied. "At the very least,

remuneration goes down. And we won't be

I need access to intelligence on the investigation in order to keep up. There's no

reduce the level of coordination and partnership anyway, after this incident," He mentioned.

level of coordination?" Rui raised an eyebrow. "What exactly

you're proposing, but the Voidhunter idea is a flawed way to go about it," He replied. "A dungeon bounty is

can gather more people using a bounty, but you have far less control, you still can mobilize a greater amount of Martial resources. Furthermore, the legality is

realized all of that in an instant," Chairman Deacon remarked, giving Rui

realized he got carried away with his analysis. It was careless,

you're correct," Chairman Deacon continued, without giving it much further thought, causing Rui to sigh in relief. "Thus, if you want to work as a bounty hunter, that can be considered as well.

inform them of your choice. For now, we can put a