The Martial Unity

"Nice, they finally found it," Rui grinned from a kilometer away from their position. He had been waiting patiently for quite some time for these three to stumble upon the fourteenth floor.

While the intelligence that Guildmaster Bradt possessed detailed the hos, whys, and whats of the exploration process, it did not give Rui precise data on what paths the Exploration Department of Deacon Industries was exploring. He needed to spend about three days finding the closest team that he could redirect to the fourteenth floor of the Shionel Dungeon.

Then, with a combination of sealing off alternative paths, and redirecting the path a bit by changing the location of the markers beyond a certain point to point them straight towards the fourteenth floor.

And like clockwork, they walked right into the fourteenth floor. At the moment they were convinced that they had come about this by natural coincidence, however, they would not be able to begin to conceive the fact that they were dancing in the palm of the Voider.

His job was done, now he just needed to sit back and wait, and bide his time until the moment was just right.

Soon after, the team hurriedly returned back to Deacon Industries alive as they informed Chairman Deacon of their discovery.

"A new floor eh? Brilliant," Chairman Deacon smiled. "Finally, fate is starting to smile upon me. Immediately begin standard floor securing protocols and measures. Make sure not a single damn foreign adventurer discovers that thing and gets away alive. I don't even want the public to ever learn of the existence of this new floor, the fourteenth floor."

"Yes sir," His secretary bowed, leaving his office to fulfill his new orders.

but smile, pleased at this turn of events. It seemed that finally, he was having a stroke of good luck. The recent events surrounding the Shionel Dungeon had been extremely unpleasant and had left a bad taste in his mouth. So much so that he couldn't help but wonder if he had been infected with bad luck or

"Of course not,"

not a

resource deposits of this floor, I should be able to regain momentum in the supplier market, overthrowing Esosale Suppliers," He smirked. "It's a shame I won't

him, Rui had been watching the movements of Deacon Industries carefully. He watched as Deacon Industries dispatched nearly

they were not messing around and were going to take full charge of the Shionel Dungeon, killing any Martial Squire that was inevitably going to discover it,

not enough to stop Rui. But he did not intend on entering the dungeon until it was time to steal the

the progress of the Deacon Industries. If I'm even a split second too late,

the nature of his operation risked being exposed

to witness the esoteric ore deposit at the center of the dungeon beneath the tree,') Rui noted. This was a rough condition for him. But, if they never came in to direct contact with the ore deposited, then they could never know that something that big was stolen and disappeared right before their very

accurate timing from Rui's end. But he was confident that he would be