The Martial Unity

Such a scenario would definitely be horrible for all Martial Squire adventurers. Just traveling in the Shionel Dungeon would become a menace to all Martial Squires. Though he wasn't sure how likely such a scenario was, he wasn't worried either. With Kane's Void Step and his Riemannian Echo and other tricks, the ants would never be a problem when traveling the dungeon.

His eyes suddenly widened as a smirk formed on his face.

"What is it?" Kane threw him a wary look.

"You don't sound pleased,"

"You look pleased," Kane retorted. "Which, inside the dungeon, does not bode well for everyone else."

"That's slander," However, Rui's smirk had not dropped yet. "I just had the most brilliant idea, Kane."

"It's simple," Rui turned back to the ant mountain. "These ants are gathering esoteric ore deposits as food from across the dungeon floor. Due to the fact that dungeon floors are abundant in esoteric ore deposits, they haven't left the floor yet. However, if the esoteric ore deposits disappeared, then they would most likely leave the dungeon floor in search of more esoteric ore deposits."

"That makes sense," Kane nodded slowly. "What exactly does this have to the plan?"

"If such a thing were to happen, then we would be the least affected, correct?" Rui asked him. "After all, we have Riemannian Echo and your Void Step. We can just sidestep any ants we run into."

"Right… So what exactly is your pla-" Kane paused as realization dawned on him.

reason they haven't left the floor is because of a surplus of esoteric ore deposits then what do you think they're going to do if all of the ore deposits in the floor and in their stockpile disappear… like

"Thereby causing a ton of problems for the other Martial

most of whom are either patroned by a force that is allied with Chairman Deacon, or is hunting us for the bounty that Chairman Deacon has placed on our heads.

emerged on his face. "You don't to purposely avoid killing even a single ant so that when we plunder and harvest every esoteric ore deposit

will also hinder their exploration rate and we'll

Kane nodded. "Let's

verify that the Void Step technique actually works with these

"It

Rui replied. "Misdirection only works on sentient beings with a developed sense of awareness. As for whether ants fully satisfy this condition… is

no background in them. He didn't know if his concerns surrounding ants were sound, but it was because he had no idea about them that he wanted to

wanted to take some precautions and verify its

He pointed in

"Makes sense," Kane nodded.

way across the

murmured as he activated Void Step.

even larger than either of

they can lift a weight that is exponentially greater

to the natural conditioning that came with mastering stronger techniques. The increased healing factor essentially meant that the natural strengthening that came with each

where they could casually lift buildings with just raw