The Martial Unity

"Unfortunately, it's not enough," Rui murmured aloud, informing Kane of his thoughts. "The good news is that I know how to get more data."

"Do you intend to pull off the monster trick once again?" Kane raised an eyebrow.

"No," Rui shook his head. "It's unlikely that we can do something like that again. I got lucky with the python monsters being extremely heat-loving creatures, but there is certainly no way that we can possibly get that lucky again. Manipulating monsters this easily is extremely difficult and the python monsters were the first set of creatures that we ran into that were so easily manipulatable."

Rui didn't hold out any hope of being able to manipulate other monsters the way he did the python monsters. It was statistically too unlikely that he would have a way to manipulate the monsters of any other floors.

"Then what?" Kane asked. "You're not going to be able to get more data unless you figure something out."

"Don't worry," Rui replied. "Ironically, manipulating humans is easier than manipulating monsters."

Kane took a second to process those words, before realizing what Rui's plan was. "You intend to use Chairman Deacon's Martial Squires to get more data for you."

point, I don't see much of another viable

had considered several other courses of action. He briefly considered the idea of manually knocking out monsters and dragging them to the Root Floor before dumping them in. Depending on their size, he could possibly get several in at a time with some

with that idea is that it's too impractical to try and

he didn't even know if he could even knock

supposed to harness them to himself? He didn't want to just tie them and drag them across the tunnels of the Shionel Dungeon. If they somehow broke through, it

He couldn't just tell them to shut up and obey, or they would die if they didn't. Even if he used Fauna Flow to try and convey

did not lead to the Root Floor, making sure that eventually, they would be forced to enter the Root Floor

too was quite impractical, as he quickly realized. Firstly, sabotaging the floor in a manner that would force all the monsters to exit was quite difficult. He did not really have a way of doing that in a pragmatic manner. He

forced to leave the floor

course, there was the smoke, even monsters couldn't get rid of their need for oxygen. However, they could just put out the fire with great. Martial Squires and Squire-level monsters could generate powerful shockwaves and gusts of wind with their movements that could easily kill humans, they were more than capable of putting out a fire

put out in time but the plan had already started becoming too convoluted. Obtaining large enough amounts of such an esoteric fuel, then spreading it across the entire floor in a manner that didn't kill all the monsters, while also securing their own safety,

was far too impractical

would clog the tunnels, making breathing absolutely impossible, and this was something that would be

Rui shook his