The Martial Unity

"You wanna go back?" Kane frowned. "Are you sure, after we haven't even made any progress yet?"

"It's because we haven't made much progress that we need to go back," Rui explained calmly. "Also, I'm honestly not even sure that we'd be able to fit that big esoteric boulder into my dimensional storage ring. At the very least, I'd need to empty out all the other stored goods and items in there. So even if we succeed right now, we still need to go back."

"Damn, right, I forgot about our inventory limits," Kane muttered. "Alright, let's head back for now. I'm actually quite tired and could use a recharge honestly. Drinking rejuvenation potions works, but it's not as satisfying as a genuinely natural period of rest."

"True," Rui admitted. "Alright, let's head back for now. I also am curious about the reaction of the Shionel Confederation to the board of the gate of the Town of Veril, honestly."

The two of them had spent more than a day and a half in the dungeon between exploration and trying to break past the defensive countermeasures of the giant tree. It was finally time for them to return back.

The actual travel back did not take that long. Even though Martial Squires could not run at top speed given that there were no straight paths for them to build up speed without slowing down, it was still quite enough for them to jog to quickly cover the diameter of the Shionel Dungeon. The reason that they didn't was also because the tunnels formed a complex maze the path back to which was extremely difficult for most people to navigate. Thus most Martial Squires spent at least an hour both traveling to and back to new floors. Many a time, scouting teams that necessarily spent a lot of time in dungeons needed to spend a lot of time getting back because they were not going to known locations and were instead searching for new floors.

None of this applied to Rui. He didn't need to waste time like every other Martial Squire did when returning since he had memorized the way they came, and also could sense the easiest way out of the dungeon from any given point with just a short time spend scanning with Riemannian Echo.

minutes, they

that no one sensed them when they left the Shionel Dungeon. The reason this was extremely important was that the consequences of being spotted when leaving the

never entered the dungeon magically leave the

pay much attention to such a thing, and most people would not care to be careful of such

of a lifetime of experience in the world of business and commerce and intelligence gathering, and the latter because of otherworldly shrewdness and intelligence. None of the three would miss an oddity such as Martial Squires magically exiting from a place that they

then as far as Rui was concerned, it would be time to run and run away

careful, and the two of them successfully

in relief. "I can't wait to get into the hot

without me, I have the usual

nonchalantly. This had already been the norm, thus he didn't really see anything

as the location for the burial of the esoteric resource