The Martial Unity

Author's Note: Please clear your cache and reread the last chapter as I incidentally posted the second chapter of the day as the first. Apologies for the mistake

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Deacon Industries immediately began aggressively clearing the Shionel Dungeon as fast as it possibly could. It ceased all other exploratory endeavors and gathered as much Martial capital as it possibly could to the fourteenth floor. More than a hundred Martial Squires were cutting down the branches at any given moment, allowing them to make progress at a rate that was quite impressive to Rui.

('As expected, Kane and I could never hold a candle to this kind of progress,') Rui sighed.

In fact, in hindsight, he found that it was a good thing that Rui decisively made the choice to avoid trying to clear the dungeon floor all by themselves. If they made too much progress before deciding to reveal its existence to Chairman Deacon, then the exploratory teams clearing the dungeon would have noticed the progress and would have reported it to Chairman Deacon, who would most likely make some realizations.

Progress made by a lone adventurer who did not bother trying to reveal the evidence of the floor to the Shionel Adventurer Guild, but also tried clearing it on his own before Deacon Industries happened to stumble upon the floor clearly reminded everybody of a particular adventurer; the Voider.

that Deacon Industries were the first to discover the fourteenth floor. That was what Rui was counting on to get them

He had to admit that their efficiency and effectiveness were worthy of a company that stood at the top of dungeon exploration success rates prior to the arrival of

chosen to focus their Martial capital as much as possible in one particular direction and portion of the perimeter of the tree's striking range. Rather than distributing all

they could. The long-range Martial Squires from behind launched volleys of long-range attacks

tree, as the number of branches also increased as they entered the trigger range of a new set of branches with every step that they took towards the trunk of the titanic tree.

Although he and Kane made up for their lack of quantity with their

for. That was a hard reality that Rui was faced with. After all, this whole plan emerged from the fact that it

even have thrown his hands up and moved onto another floor

that required a large number of Martial Squires to clear them as well? Was Rui going to spend his time redoing the same strategy over and over again? Let others do all the hard work and steal it from them just when they were about

though it could potentially be interesting as a challenge. He had come to the Shionel Confederation

the floors are like, they could be cleared by us two alone or they may not,') He sighed. ('That doesn't matter

of the week. Because the number of Martial Squires piercing through the volley of branches at any given time was constant, the Martial Squires were in rotations of