The Martial Unity

"Besides," Rui shrugged. "Even if these are dead-ends, who knows? We might run into something interesting."

"Yeah ri-" He paused when Rui suddenly stopped walking as he cocked his head and stared hard in a particular direction. "What is it?"

"I sensed something strange at the edge of my sensory sweeps," Rui frowned. "Is that… Is that a big tree?"

He jogged a bit ahead, to extend his sensory range in that direction as his eyes wandered around, lost, as he was absorbed in the sensory feedback that he got from Riemannian Echo.

"A tree? Is that all? That doesn't seem exactly out of place given that the dungeon is basically overgrown trees," Kane remarked.

"It's the size of a small mountain," Rui informed him with a surprised expression. "It's inside a cavity large enough to be a floor."

"Wait, so that's the next floor you discovered?" Kane's grin lit up. "That's awesome, we've finally run into something tangible after exploring this much."

"Yeah, let's get going," Rui nodded as he picked up the pace. "I think this floor might be special."

"Because of the tree?" Kane asked.

"Yeah, and also, I don't sense any monsters on that floor. Everything is strangely stationary," Rui remarked as he ran forward with Gale Force Breathing. "Honestly, there might be nothing worth having there. It's hard to tell from this distance. Regardless, let's reach it first. The problem is, I can't immediately detect a tunnel route to the floor immediately."

The tunnels in the dungeon did not interconnect in an orderly fashion, instead resulting in messy mazes. The presence of these mazes was an additional reason why Rui's maps were basically priceless, the ability to know which direction to go was special.

of time trying to find a natural tunnel path that leads to the

out way through to it, honestly," Rui scratched

create a direct path to the fourteenth floor and they didn't need to waste time running around looking for a tunnel leading them to it. After all, there was no guarantee that such a thing existed. There was no rule that the dungeon abided by that said all tunnels must necessarily be connected to all floors. It could be that there were isolated tunneling systems, and they were simply in

waste too much time. "How far away is

direction," Rui pointed straight towards the wall of the tunnel.

going to take some effort getting there. Still… I think I prefer the certainty that comes with

dungeon than they already had.

outside of his immediate vicinity. This was an incredibly discomforting feeling that he would rather not subject himself to. The prolonged subjection to the sensory

"Let's get started. We can do alternating strikes.

nodded as the two of them took their

rushed forward as he used Flowing Canon as the main strike. All of the muscle groups across his body generated a tremendous power with which he smoothly empowered the strike. He breathed deeply as his fist shook, vibrating back and

vibrating fist collided with the wall as the superhuman might of his Martial body

BAM!!!

created a two-meter wide and deep crater that almost entirely blasted a

the result. "The walls of the tunnel must have some decent Squire-level esoterics protecting

strike possessed the ability to fragment buildings to pieces. Yet he still wasn't able to blow a hole

BAM!

with a

CRACK CRACK CRACK

in the wall. "Still, this might not take as much time as I feared if a single combo can break