The Martial Unity

"What?!" Kane almost whispered as he glanced back at the new floor.

The ceiling of the floor was strangely lit up, as it usually was. There wasn't much he could see on the ground due to the high density of esoteric resources that obscured his vision greatly.

"There's no mistaking it. They're human beings. Some even have clothes on that are clearly man-made," Rui murmured, his eyes lost as he focused on his Riemannian Echo. "They're not Martial Artists, I highly doubt that they are. Besides, that's not all there is. This place is unbelievable. We need to get to the bottom of this."

He turned towards Kane. "You're up. It's time for us to vanish."

Kane nodded as he put a hand on Rui's shoulder as they began sky-walking down, vanishing into thin air.

STEP

They reached the ground, looking around vigilantly as they walked forward in the direction that Rui directed them in.

"You said that's not all there was," Kane turned to Rui with a mixture of interest and concern. "What else is there?"

Rui didn't reply, instead choosing to gesture forward.

Kane frowned as he turned forward squinting as a large object made its way into his hampered field of vision. Yet it wasn't until after he actually realized what it was, that his eyes widened with complete shock.

"Is that a… building?!" Kane raised his voice.

Rui told him to quiet down but nodded anyway.

would run into a building on an undiscovered floor

were creating buildings? Inside a dangerous floor that had yet to be cleared? That was on another level of

of it. Furthermore, its condition was extremely poor as he

did not change how absurd the notion

Rui urged. "You

humans? If they're alive we ought to help them. The least we could do is inform the Shionel Adventurer Guild. Why don't you

you," Rui

shock for the day as he beheld a

No, not a creature.

was human, but it may as well

her bare body was a sickly black from head to toe, just like the corpse that they had encountered. Yet she wasn't dead. She was very clearly alive. Her

fuck." Kane couldn't help but whisper. He didn't even care that she wasn't a Martial Artist, he was not undoing Void Step. He could feel a sense of threat to

like a walking corpse, her skeletal and muscular structure had remained unchanged. Her flesh too had retained

any thought of trying to communicate with the humans. It was very evident

mindless, almost like a monster," Rui confirmed his own thoughts. "Dilated pupils, incoherent noises, lack of awareness of surroundings or even

to wander about without purpose. It was clear that she had no conscious cognition of the world around her.