The Martial Unity

"Like what?" Kane frowned. "What could you have possibly learned in such a short amount of time?"

"Well, for one, the amount of time may have been short, but what you need to consider is what was accomplished in this time," Rui told him.

More than a thousand pythons had been annihilated by the Root in half a minute. Rui had gotten enough data for him to get the active data patterns that he was looking for. He had even analyzed yet, and he had already noted several patterns.

('It does not attack until things move within a certain range from the Root,') Rui concluded.

It hadn't attacked the pythons from the moment that they had entered the Root Floor from the edge of the floor. Furthermore, it only attacked them after they entered a certain range.

Even now, when he observed the corpses of the pythons, their positions confirmed the pattern. It meant that simply entering the dungeon did not make you a target of the Root, you needed to enter the dungeon and then cross a certain boundary.

That gave Rui a bit of relief. It meant that he did not need to leave the floor if he wanted to retreat from the attacks of the Root. It also meant that he could effectively control when the attacks would begin.

That wasn't the only thing he had noticed at first glance.

begins from the base, before going

him to concretely predict the attacks and movements ahead of time. It

of the Root, and finding such a useful pattern

tells and cues that would allow him to predict the moment of attack. If such a thing really was the case, then Rui would be in quite the dilemma. But fortunately, his fears hadn't

that isn't the only significant pattern there

discovered that every time a root attacked, it would always be the closest root to the target of the Root. This might not seem like much of a pattern or an advantage, but it meant that at any

without a doubt. The prior pattern only established his ability to predict an attack from

these were not enough in and

in more varied situations and circumstances. He needed to know what would happen if it was forced to attack highly powerful grade-ten Martial Squires who could resist some attacks and

the Squire-level python monsters that he had tossed into the Root floor did. Martial Squires at the peak of the Squire Realm could not be

in all, the plan was a success, it definitely did yield the result that

allow him to use the Void Forestep technique defensively to handle the attacks of the Root to a certain extent, but he would die unless he had access to even more

the problem with relying on information on your opponent to perform higher than your limits," Rui sighed. "You need to