The Martial Unity

"How do you plan on extracting all the esoteric ore deposits?" Kane asked, raising an eyebrow as he glanced at Rui.

"It's simple, really," Rui told him. "The reason for the difficulty of extracting the esoteric ore deposits of this particular floor is because of the fact that there is a huge body of water between us and the esoteric ore deposits and powerful creatures who are extremely capable in water, correct?"

"Right," Kane nodded, furrowing his eyebrows as Rui rehashed the obvious.

"Then it's simple," Rui smirked. "We just need to get rid of the water."

Kane stared at him.

"Here me out,"

"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard," Kane scoffed. "'Oh there's problem? Just get rid of it.'"

Rui laughed as Kane mocked him. "I don't mean figuratively get rid of the problem, I mean it quite literally. We'll displace all this water and literally get it out of our way."

"That's insane," Kane replied with exasperation. "How are you going to displace all this water out of the way? Even if you had the biggest bucket, it's too untenable."

"We have a tool better than buckets," Rui replied with an amused smile. "We can use gravity."

"Gravity points downwards, not upwards," Kane reminded him.

amused grin. "So let's just allow gravity

the bottom of the floor prevents that from happe-" Kane paused abruptly.

open a hole at the bottom of the floor, drain all the water out, and then peacefully extract all the esoteric ore deposits from the now emptied

widened. "That's insane.

simple but brilliant the plan was. It wasn't going to be easy, but it was straightforward and viable for Rui, even if it wasn't

have to stay down there a while, won't you run into the same problems as you would if

it from the inside," Rui replied. "I plan to blast a hole into the

for asking. But I suppose you are the only one who

Echo is detecting the right avenue for breaking a hole in the bottom of the floor feasible. Otherwise, it's extremely difficult to even come around to the

Kane nodded. "Also it's not

This means the moment I break through, an extremely large flood of water will blast out at extremely high speeds. The

the situation. Based on some rough estimates of the size of the lake in conjugation with his knowledge of fluid dynamics

a hole, for the water to blast out, hitting him at high speeds only for a giant

would be working against Rui in these circumstances, making it difficult to move, while the flood of water would aid the shark, allowing it to reach Rui in an instant where it would rip his head off, or at the very least cause him

needed to do was ensure that the whole was big

size of a human, after all. What Rui needed was

find a way to