The Martial Unity

The election had arrived.

The Shionel Merchant Guild grew extremely busy, even more so than it was due to the Shionel Dungeon. The various branches and offices across the entire nation went through a multitude of logistical preparations for the event.

All manners of campaigns decorated the entire country as the two most popular candidates by far fought for support from the various members of the Shionel Merchant Guild.

The Shionel Merchant Guild included the most successful and wealthiest merchants in the nation to the humblest of service providers. Any person who supplied goods or services to an open market was considered a merchant, within the nation, and they were all entitled to vote for a candidate for guildmaster.

Thus, although the voter pool did not include non-merchant citizens of the nation, because of the sheer proportion of the country's population that technically and officially counted as a merchant, it still meant that many many millions of votes would be cast across the entire nation.

Many people excitedly witnessed as the two greatest titans of the nation clashed with each other. Guildmaster Bradt had previously domineeringly won every election despite Chairman Deacon's best efforts. However, this time, things truly could go either way.

The many electoral debates that the two of them had were intense, as the two of them challenged each other in an intricate battle for rhetorical and optical victories in the eyes of the voters.

All was going just fine for both sides until it wasn't.

News of the massacre of the one thousand Martial Squires associated with Deacon Industries spread like wildfire across the entire nation. It was an absolute shock, perhaps more shocking than any other news regarding the Shionel Dungeon that had come out prior.

One thousand Martial Squires had all died on one single floor!

It was shocking because it meant that there was a threat level in the Shionel Dungeon so profound that it could kill one thousand powerful Martial Squires.

higher Realms could not enter the Shionel Dungeon, it meant that whatever

many Martial Squires would be needed to

Voider

rival one thousand Martial Squires.

the Voider and Deacon Industries combine forces, they could take

great source of gossip and entertainment to

Deacon, however, had not been

murmured, putting both hands on a table

had stood an ashamed Squire Yuna, lowering her head as she

son…" He murmured lightly as his expression quivered.

of all the Martial Squires, your son fought to the

to survive, that too through such cowardly means. She decided to embellish Captain Deacon to be greater than he

as he looked down, hiding his sorrow. "And his

by an unknown figure," She confirmed. "He decapitated the captain from the back in a cowardly fashion, while the Captain was

dark as Squire Yuna felt increasingly uncomfortable at Chairman

that… he was the Voider? That he fought all the roots by

was different from

wasn't quivering

was shuddering

gulped as she experienced a tremendous amount of pressure from the center of his attention.

defeated the main roots by himself?" Chairman Deacon asked with sharp