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.

surprised. You just saw three Martial Squires stronger than you leaving the

might decide to

what?" Chairman Deacon raised an

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, they can access information through your people somehow. In which case,

pointless

to

the very least, you're registered as a Voidhunter in official documentation," He replied.

that's a more viable way to go about this," Rui replied. "At the very least, I can't be officially paraded around as a Voidhunter anymore after

fine. But your remuneration goes down. And we

the investigation in order to keep

given, I intend to be more liberal and reduce the level of coordination and partnership anyway,

Rui raised an eyebrow. "What

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

but you have far less control, you still can mobilize a greater amount of Martial resources. Furthermore, the legality is not a problem since it would be a

realized all of that in an instant," Chairman Deacon

himself inwardly as he realized he got carried away with his analysis. It was careless, however, he had been momentarily taken aback, losing

to work as

and inform them of your choice. For now, we can put a pin in this discussion as I have some other pressing