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.

monsters?" Kane raised an eyebrow. "We're not Martial Seniors,

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, and they cannot

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 whose body was

basically as strong as a grade-two Martial Squire," Rui explained. "On top of that, they're usually stupid as hell, and so

single bite from them is

matter, still, I'm pointing

the predator that hunted the Earthen Basilisk, which he evaluated to be on par

didn't feel much threat from

of it also has to do with how easy they

Their movements and courses of action were so rigid, that he didn't even need to employ his Martial Art to

was more interested

sophisticated system," Rui murmured. "I wonder if that's true

about the science lessons," Kane scoffed. "Where is the

within the 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

what

working on the walls, seemingly gathering dirt from the floor while piling it on the walls with some adhesive-like

gathering esoteric ore deposits from the rest

was what Rui found to be the most interesting. The ants were able to detect and mineral and organic ore

mountain deep into a complex array of tunnels, heading