The Martial Unity

Rui was right.

Rui and Kane retreated from the fourteenth floor, leaving the Shionel Dungeon after Rui confirmed the extent of the damage from the mini-fiasco that the operation had turned out to be. They returned to back to their inn undetected via Void Step, before spending the rest of the day taking a break.

Rui completed his chores such as writing a letter informing Guildmaster Bradt of the location of the latest supplies of esoteric ore deposits, while including an updated three-dimensional map of the Shionel Dungeon as per their agreement.

On the other hand, Chairman Deacon was not having such a chill day.

In fact, any semblance of peace he was having that day had been upended when he read through the report submitted by the captain of the expedition team on the fourteenth floor.

"WHAT?!"

His bellow was loud enough to echo through the main branch of Deacon Industries, making all of his employees wonder what lit his fuse this time.

For the next few hours, Chairman Deacon poured over every word in the report one by one, digesting all the information before he finally put away the documents, before frowning.

His eyes wandered around as he clasped his hands hands together.

"Sir, the Chairman of Carlun Manufacturers has requested a meeting with you," His chief of staff informed him, breaking the silence.

I'm busy," He replied absentmindedly. "Have Vice-Chairman Dellia handle it,

dismissed her, wanting to think

as he parsed through all the information that

information to process, but he quickly made strides in analyzing them as he considered everything that he had just learned. He began with

literally the case that they appeared and disappeared out of existence. No Martial Arti technique in the lower Realms should be capable

it literally being a case of something like teleportation or something of the sort. There was no way Martial

figures eluding the senses of the patrol guard,') Chairman Deacon quickly inferred some basic facts.

a single patrol guard as absolute fact and was open to the idea that

towards the tunnel, not away from him. Meaning they appeared and disappeared while the distance between them was more or less constant,') He sharply noted. ('That reduces the probability that the man mistook them entering and

happened within a very short time period from

bombs…') His eyes narrowed.

answer, of course,

expedition team. To prevent them from witnessing something.') His eyes narrowed. ('Their goal had nothing to do with the expedition team. They didn't mount an attack on the expedition team, they did not

eyes narrowed. ('Was that part of the plan? Is Squire Harens actually

that naturally presented itself to him when he considered the facts. The

being a conspiracy. However, the operation didn't make sense if

What could that possibly achieve in the

can be concluded, that regardless of whether Squire Harens is a colluder or not, that attack could not have been the main objective. There had to be another objective most