The Martial Unity

The two of them proceeded down the dark tunnel that steeply led them into even greater depths. While twirling and contorting around as it drew them deeper into the dungeon. Rui had long come to accept and even disdain the dungeon's tendency to have tunnels that curled around extremely as it led them around. The reason for this was that it made it impossible to move around at their top speed, or anywhere even near it.

The same limitations that prevented humans from running at their top speed, when on a proper sprinting track, while climbing and trekking through a cave maze were the same limitations that prevented adventurers from traveling across the Shionel Dungeon at extremely high speeds.

They simply couldn't due to how much the tracks turned and curled around. There were also security concerns with moving that fast in such a dangerous and risky environment even if Rui could sense his environment thoroughly using Riemannian Echo. Thus the two, like all Martial Squires, had to move somewhat slowly and steadily.

Still, it wasn't long before Rui ran into something.

"An ant corpse," Rui noted as he descended to the ground. "This is definitely not the work of a Martial Artist unless Nel became a Martial Squire and has been in the Shionel Dungeon all this time."

The corpse was a mess, and most of its insides had been disemboweled and extracted. There was simply no need for any Martial Squire to go to this length against a monster. That, along with the previous injuries that he had seen from other ants led him to be more certain that he was probably onto something in this space. The two of them began traveling further before Rui's eyes lit up.

"It's plundering time," Rui grinned. "I was right, there was a floor in this part of the dungeon."

"This time we managed to avoid searching like crazy for hours," Kane remarked happily.

"True," Rui nodded.

Rui began being able to sense a greater portion of the dungeon the closer they

furthermore, Rui and Kane had discovered the dungeon with the largest tree that they had

asked with a raised eyebrow. "No freak-sized trees or

but it feels like an enlargened version of pretty standard vegetation.

about the monsters?" Kane asked. He cared more about the threats

narrowed. "I… I think there might be more

frowned.

as he considered his senses more deeply. "It's hard to tell for sure from

had to admit that it was a little strange that there were different species of creatures on the new floor. There were very few ways in which such creatures could coexist. One of the reasons that there was no infighting between

was baked into most species since species with a tendency to not cooperate

Different species were usually in

is…') Rui paused as they finally reached the floor as he was

the entirety of the floor at once, picking

insects, and various kinds of flora,')

of ecosystem. He had expected something far beyond the norms of normal with the

monsterified