The Martial Unity

Rui wasn't afraid that the ants that were spotted would go back and report to the queen ant. The ants did not possess such a sophisticated system in place. He observed that despite being monsterified and growing larger, they had not gained much, if any intelligence, at all.

"Right… Left… Straight," Rui murmured as they sped through the contorting tunnels of the Shionel Dungeon.

Rui couldn't help but sigh at the tendency of the ants to construct a dizzying maze as opposed to just making straight paths from the outside to the core. That would make their job so much easier and reduce the risks by a lot.

Still, Rui was quite confident. He had constructed extensive predictive models on the ants from the very moment he detected the cavity at the center of the ant mountain with the stash of esoteric ore deposits. Even if the ants were hilariously simplistic, he was not going to hold back out of some sense of arrogance.

This helped as he quickly extrapolated the future movements of all the ants within his sensory vision. Avoiding ants that fell from the ceiling of the tunnel out of nowhere, or even being forced to kill them with the Bellhorn blade and Pipe that he had at hand to use at any moment.

"We're close, you doing fine?" Rui asked, glancing at Kane.

"Great," Kane replied simply, focusing on making sure the technique was flawless. It was a mental technique, and when he concentrated on it fully, he couldn't dedicate much of his attention to anything else, including conversation.

"It's just up ahead," Rui narrowed his eyes as they approached the giant queen ant, getting closer and closer. Rui had a feeling she was different from the rest of the mindless ants, just based purely on her movements alone.

Soon enough, they entered the center of the ant mountain.

was just up ahead of them, menacingly looming over the entire

sensed that even with his Bellhorn Sword and hot air pipe, killing the queen bee would be extremely difficult. Primordial Instinct warned him

was a great amount of power hidden within her frame, without a

a sharp pupil at the center. It was an unholy fusion of the two, and

sharp enough to spot them despite Void Step, which would be a disaster, but luckily Kane and his technique

was still extremely wary, however, just one look at her eyes and he could tell that the creature was intelligent. Each of her motions had a purpose, whether it was to adjust the many eggs behind her through which the

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esoteric ore deposits into his dimensional storage ring at a quick pace. He did not want

it obscured objects with the domain of Kane's technique's influence, meaning as long as Kane and Rui

be noticed indirectly. Eventually, the stockpile's size decreased greatly, and no amount of

part was that the esoteric ore deposits were already extracted, they were simply tossed into a huge pile of other glowing rocks and biological

It wasn't long before the two of them come close to reaching

The ant queen who had been quite busy with the birthing process immediately realized something as gravely wrong when