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.

this way, they did not suspect anything and truly were of the belief that Deacon Industries were the first to discover the fourteenth floor. That was what Rui was counting on to get them to drop their guard at the crucial

they sure are working hard and smart," Rui admitted as he observed them from the edge of the fourteenth floor. 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

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 of their Martial Squires across the circle, they were able to make deeper and quicker progress to the center of the

defended against and destroyed them as much as they could. The long-range Martial Squires from behind launched volleys of long-range attacks that also destroyed and weakened the

entered the trigger range of a new set of branches with every step that they took towards the trunk of the titanic tree. This would make it

a week at most at this rate,') Rui sighed. Although he and Kane made up for their lack of quantity with

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

another floor rather than wasting time on this floor. That was a much more practical

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

could potentially be interesting as a challenge. He had come to the Shionel Confederation for a sense of adventure, freedom, and earnest challenge,

rest of the floors are like, they could be cleared by us

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