The Martial Unity

"Ants?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "Like, normal small ants? The type that are pretty easy to kill hopefully?"

"I'm afraid to disappoint you, but… these seem pretty non-standard," Rui murmured. "Come on, I found a pathway to it. We don't need to break through a bunch of tunnels this time."

The two of them quickly moved and followed a particular tunnel path that Rui guided him through before they eventually ran into an open wide space, yet it wasn't entirely unoccupied.

"Woah," Kane did a double take. "Is that… an anthill?!"

Even he could perceive the gigantic structure.

"It's an ant mountain, actually," Rui murmured as he sized up the gigantic structure. "It wouldn't be the first time a floor has contained a mountain-sized structure."

He recalled the sixteenth floor with the tree.

"So how many ants are there in the colony?" Kane gulped.

"Tens of thousands," Rui murmured. "On the low side as far as ant colonies go."

Rui could feel the various ants trickling in and out of the holes in the ant mountain, he could roughly gauge their number as he swept through them counting them in groups.

to deal with tens of thousands of Squire-level monsters?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "We're not Martial Seniors, just

to be Martial Seniors to take on Squire-level monsters. Monsters are not equivalent to Martial Artists. Otherwise, we would be completely doomed since monsters outnumber Martial Artists immensely. Martial Art techniques are what make the battle fair. Monsters do not possess

techniques were essentially trained routines that allowed for hyper-efficient and effective applications of energy and power to produce superhuman results. This was why even as a Martial Apprentice

the equivalent of a grade-five body, they're basically as strong as a grade-two Martial Squire," Rui explained. "On top of that, they're

single bite from them is ending you even if

is a nuanced matter, still, I'm

to be on par with grade-ten Martial Squires due to its vastly greater physique. That was a monster he did not want to

numbers, he didn't

to do with how easy they are

Their movements and courses of action were so rigid, that he

was more interested in

Rui murmured. "I wonder if that's true for them even when they're

less about the science lessons," Kane

ant mountain," Rui threw disapproving look at Kane's materialism. "We'll get them alright, but I am curious as to what's going on here. They don't ever leave the dungeon considering we haven't run into one

curiously observed what

good portion of the ants was on the ant mountain, working on the walls, seemingly gathering dirt from the floor while piling it on the walls with some adhesive-like substance from their

esoteric ore deposits from the rest of

The ants were able to detect and

mountain deep into a complex