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'-)

('It's because it's an open-ended bounty that they can afford to register. Simply registering is not problematic since it does not convey any burdens or responsibilities. It simply allows them to access the intelligence

that meant was 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 him, then they could immediately provide his corpse to Deacon Industries without any

of the registration meant that there was no issue with spending as much

quite convenient and there was no

good strategy on Deacon's part,') Rui mused with

only intended to register to be able to

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

Chairman Deacon became more certain that the Voider was among this group, the number of Martial Squires that had already registered and would continue to register would make the suspect pool absurdly large

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

negatives were not worth the

trying to be good-hearted and help the Martial Squires. Rui was shrewd enough to make out how Chairman Deacon could

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

that allowed them to narrow down the Voider's positions through his Martial attire marked with some

the Martial Squires, he might just be

the mind of the Voider