The Martial Unity

"Tsk," Tui tutted. ('You've made my job harder, Guildmaster Bradt.')

Guildmaster Bradt probably thought he was doing a favor to Rui and to himself, and frankly, given that he didn't know that Rui had infiltrated the Voidhunters, it made sense that he thought this way.

However, Rui couldn't even tell him to stop. Because even doing that would reveal that he was involved somehow. That would instantly make the four surviving martial Squires suspicious, two of whom were women.

That would be no different from revealing that he himself was the Voider. Thus his hands were tied in that regard.

('On top of that, Guildmaster Bradt cannot stop Chairman Deacon from placing a bounty on my head,') Rui knew that.

After all, placing a bounty on someone inside the dungeon was legal, thus there was no avenue for Guildmaster Bradt to fight this with the power of the state. On top of that, he could not use his own power to fight back publically. Since that would be no different from announcing that he was associated with the Voider.

That would mean that he was colluding with a criminal who had evaded tax at one point. That would be enough to launch a formal investigation against him, even if he was the Guildmaster. That would be damning.

He couldn't intervene from the shadows either, since his own private force could not possibly fight off all the people who accepted the bounty. The losses were also not worth the gains.

means that I'm kind on my own,')

was considering publicizing the intelligence on the Voider. That would allow all

the Shionel Confederation. But they are not the only ones around, and they are not the only ones with power, and with interests that

beginning to dominate. After all, the Shionel Merchant Guild was comprised of the top hundred most powerful and successful merchants. Number one was

Chairman Deacon, they too could make their efforts into stopping Rui under the wing of Chairman Deacon's publicized intelligence and the giant bounty that Chairman Deacon was inevitably going to be placed

Voidhunters were merely the first step,') Rui realized in hindsight. ('There are greater measures

to

Chairman Deacon a titanic amount of power at his

merchants that are on his side. He also has other stakeholders supporting him. But they're just

only ones who had a stake in the Shionel Dungeon. The many countries participating in the dungeon raid and plundering process were all stakeholders as

partner of Esosale Suppliers. This meant that they would naturally support his rival if they wanted to hamper Guildmaster

bounty hunters that would arise from the bounty, but he would also have to deal

top of that, he would need to deal with the pressure that would emerge from the disgruntled nations that were each trying

after Rui

be even