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.

just saw three Martial Squires stronger than you leaving the Voidhunter team,"

"If I don't like what it is to follow, I just very well might decide to leave as well. So, I

what?" Chairman Deacon raised

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

level of independence makes it pointless

you grant independence according to

you're registered as a Voidhunter in official documentation," He replied. "With this arrangement, you're no

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

Deacon sighed. "Alright, fine. But your remuneration

intelligence on the investigation

be more liberal and reduce the level of coordination and partnership anyway, after this incident," He mentioned. "You can

the level of coordination?" Rui raised an eyebrow.

a flawed way to go about it," He replied. "A dungeon bounty is a better way to go

people with a more free and independent engagement. You can gather more people using a bounty, but you have far less control, you still can mobilize a greater amount

that in an instant," Chairman Deacon remarked, giving

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

relief. "Thus, if you want to work as a bounty hunter, that can be considered as well. It's just that you won't be a Voidhunter anymore. You can choose

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