The Martial Unity

Rui grew fascinated by the ants as the two of them began vigorously extracting the esoteric ore deposits one by one. They aggressively went all out with picking and storing them in the dimensional storage ring.

The reason for this was they didn't have any time to waste. Unlike with the other dungeon floors, they were on a time limit. They had to get as many esoteric ore deposits as they could before the ants, despite their slow pace, found and extracted all of them.

Unlike normal, the two of them worked till they were absolutely exhausted, before immediately consuming rejuvenation potions to bring themselves back to their peaks.

It was only half a day before they completely drained all of the esoteric ore deposits of the seventeenth floor, barring the stockpile at the center of the ant mountain.

"Have another physical rejuvenation potion," Rui told him. "Also, have a mental rejuvenation potion too."

"I just had a physical one a while back," Kane frowned.

"I know," Rui nodded. "But it is best if you're at your absolute peak for this, wasting a potion is better than dying."

"Alright," Kane sighed before quickly consuming two potions in rapid succession. "Now what?"

"Your max time limit for a single rung of Void Step is twenty minutes," Rui told him. "That's not enough time to get all of the esoteric ore deposits in the center of the ant mountain when you factor in the time needed to get in and out of the ant mountain."

"What do we do then?" Kane frowned. "Do we go in for a second round?"

"We should be able to get around seventy-five or eighty percent

behind that much?" Kane

the esoteric ore deposits of a single floor could yield, that was no different from leaving behind dozens of millions of Kandrian gold coins worth

nodded. "The reason for that is because it is quite likely that the queen ant needs those esoteric ore deposits to reproduce and lay

"Meaning…?"

enough to reproduce the slain soldiers in time for the new supply of esoteric ore deposits to come from the ants who returned after leaving the floor, then she'll be able to maintain a rate of reproduction that matches the rate of the ants dying against Martial Squires, what that means is that unless the Martial Squires actually find the seventeenth floor and kill the queen ant, the ants will never stop being a threat

other adventurers as much as possible. The ants are kind of like mercenaries, and we are the clients," Kane understood Rui's plan, likening

deal and aren't exactly consenting. So it's closer to us manipulating them to get what we want. It's an effective

esoteric ore deposits?" Kane asked, with a dubious expression. "I thought

right, I don't. But I have other

turned back towards them as he paid attention to the macro and micro-gestures that they made in

day he got to use his Fauna Flow technique, one that allowed him to accurately interpret animalistic communication and even communicate using that

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he interpreted their auditory and non-verbal communication. They were like drones, or robots with no other thought process at all. It was also why he was unsure whether these incredibly inhumane