The Martial Unity

"Should I just knock one of the teams out and toss them into the fourteenth floor?" He asked himself, amused.

The idea wasn't exactly without merit, even if it was an amusingly crude way of going about it.

However, it definitely also had its demerits.

('If they get knocked out only to wake up and find themselves on a brand-new floor of the dungeon, that's definitely going into the report,') Rui sighed. ('In that case, it's quite likely that Chairman Deacon will be suspicious nonetheless.')

Although he would be suspicious to a lesser extent than if Rui tried communicating to him the existence and location of the fourteenth floor, it was still too iffy for Rui. What he needed was a concrete way to ensure that Chairman Deacon would greedily try to monopolize and clear it himself. This way, the only one suffering would be Chairman Deacon. He had absolutely no problems with that.

('Alright, now, I just need to plan exactly how I'm going to get an exploration team of Deacon Industries to stumble into the fourteenth floor,') Rui sighed as he considered all the available options at hand.

('The most organic way would be them naturally finding the fourteenth floor without any intervention from me,')

The problem was that this was too unlikely and Rui couldn't afford to wait around for the many days and weeks it would take for an event that may not even ever happen> he couldn't afford to waste so much time waiting for them to stumble onto the fourteenth floor naturally.

Squire, then they would most likely disclose its existence to the Shionel Merchant Guild which would immediately mean that all the adventurers in

of. After all, he went looking out for new floors because he wanted to avoid the huge number of bounty hunters that existed among the normies. There were too many points of failure and the risk was too great to conduct his operations in

sit around waiting for them to naturally discover it,')

out and leaving them on the fourteenth

he needed a new way to guide them

the fourteenth floor,') Rui considered the line of thought. ('What could get them to

could think of several

opposed to a plain path. Paths that are detrimental to

all of them. He could poison alternative paths to the paths that led to the fourteenth floor in an overt manner, causing the team to avoid those other paths

the presence of monsters that usually meant that one

fill the entrances to alternative paths preventing them from taking

that doesn't mean that it will succeed. Hell, before I can even flesh out the plan, I need to

about their exploration and what methodologies they followed, Rui's objectives could be anywhere between easy and difficult

is gaining all the information

them to work on. Thus he needed to secure a reliable intelligence channel on

he was