The Martial Unity

"Hmmm," Rui hummed as he analyzed the latest happenings. "This is rough,"

"Are we screwed?" Kane sighed. "It was a good run while it lasted."

"Relax, we're not screwed," Rui replied. "However, we can forget about trying to explore already discovered floors. From here on out, we should avoid it altogether. We always planned to reach this stage, but perhaps we'll have to accelerate the process. There are too many threats around us. I don't feel comfortable with all of this."

He got up, heading for the door. "I'll be back,"

"Where are you headed?" Kane asked.

"I'll register as a bounty hunter," Rui replied. "Get prepped, we're going dungeon raiding soon enough."

Rui headed towards Deacon Industries where the basic registration process was happening. What surprised Rui when he got there was how large the crowd was.

('What the…') He frowned as he got in line. ('Why on Earth are so many people joining? Surely most of these adventurers have other arrangements. Patrons, contracts, places of employment… How can they possibly also take up something as time-consuming as bounty-hunting when'-)

problematic since it does not convey any burdens or responsibilities. It simply allows them to access the intelligence that Deacon Industries is offering to bounty hunters and allows Deacon Industries to keep score on the number of Martial Squire

that even if they did not find the Voider, or even try to, they would still have no problems, however, if they did find and kill

the non-committal nature of the registration meant that there was no issue with spending as much or as little time whenever

quite convenient and there was

Deacon's part,') Rui mused with

be able to access the investigative reports on himself,

probably giving himself away to a certain extent since Chairman Deacon could be sure that the Voider would register to keep tabs on his

already registered and would continue to register would make the suspect pool absurdly

the Voider was accessing information through an associated third party, which further made his job

the negatives were not

scheme in any of this. While the world might simply think Chairman Deacon was simply trying to be good-hearted and help the Martial Squires. Rui was shrewd enough

that he could potentially manipulate the Voider by planting false information that would cause the Voider to act a certain way, or choose to make a certain

Chairman Deacon managed to convince the Voider that they had managed to develop a way that allowed them to narrow down the Voider's positions through his Martial attire marked with some esoteric substance, then the Voider, if convinced, would naturally do his best to dispose of it and procure an alternative

on all the Martial Squires, he might just be able to catch someone who would act exactly as they would if they were afraid

was also using this bounty to get into the mind of the Voider and manipulate