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.

to sense a greater portion

of, Some of the earliest floors discovered in the dungeon had some amount of vegetation, furthermore, Rui and Kane had discovered the

Kane asked with a

but it feels like an enlargened version of pretty standard vegetation. Like grass, shrubs, and trees,"

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

that…" Rui's eyes narrowed. "I… I think there

Kane frowned. "That's

his senses more deeply. "It's hard to tell for sure from this distance. But I

the new floor. There were very few ways in which such creatures could coexist. One of the reasons that there was no infighting between monsters of the same species within the Shionel dungeon was

a tendency to not cooperate and even fight would not survive in

species. Different species were usually in conflict

answer is…') Rui paused as they finally reached the floor as he was able to sense it

Riemannian Echo washed across the entirety of the floor at once, picking up all of the

and various

of ecosystem. He had expected something far beyond the norms of normal with the Shionel Dungeon. However, it seems that tried

this is a monsterified version of them," Rui