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.

quiet down but nodded anyway.

Kane couldn't believe that he would run into

non-Martial Artist humans on the floor, but to think that they were creating buildings? Inside a dangerous floor that had yet to be cleared? That

its condition was extremely poor as he identified

how absurd the notion of a house

"You might attract their

we could do is inform the Shionel Adventurer Guild. Why don't you want to attract their

better if I show you,"

day as he beheld a strange creature that

No, not a creature.

was human, but it may

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 eyes were blackened too, where they should have

that she wasn't a Martial Artist, he was not undoing Void Step. He could feel a sense of threat to him regardless of the

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

thought of trying to communicate with the humans. It was very evident that such a thing was not going to work

thoughts. "Dilated pupils, incoherent noises, lack of awareness

clear that she had no conscious cognition of the world around her. From what Rui could see, she was not operating on even a primal instinct or drive. Her movements were