The Martial Unity

"Remind me why we spent an entire day in advance for this meeting?" Kane sighed, crouching.

"To make sure that they aren't setting up a trap," Rui replied.

The two of them were waiting inside a tunnel, near the entrance to it from outside the Shionel Dungeon. They had simply stepped a few meters into the dungeon after entering it. They had even blocked off the tunnel to ensure that nobody would enter it and run into them.

Kane was bored, while Rui simply kept watch over a certain office branch of the Adventurer Guild near the Shionel Dungeon.

As a caveat for the potential security holes that existed, it was stipulated into law that the withdrawal of large sums of money required the verification and monitoring of individuals with a certain level of authority or above.

That meant that Rui could not walk into the Shionel Merchant Guild, and simply extract all the money that he wanted and leave. That was why he hadn't already withdrawn all of his revenue and run away from the Shionel Confederation.

He had set up a meeting with Guildmaster Bradt, the only person who he was willing to engage with from the Merchant Guild over the matter.

He and Kane had immediately perched themselves outside the meeting spot to make sure that Guildmaster Bradt didn't set anything up as a trap before the meeting.

Not that Rui believed that Guildmaster Bradt would try something of the sort. Rui had already shown that when he was near the Shionel Dungeon he was always holding a powerful bomb in his hands that could do a lot of damage.

Furthermore, they both had enough to gain from finally completing their long-drawn agreement and cooperation and would like to see a clean break where they had nothing to do with each other now.

pushed aside the boulder, opening up the path to outside the

bye," Kane waved him

ring of the

Martial Squires guards that stood outside simply nodded wordlessly at

branch was emptied out, for the

Bradt had chosen to arrive physically, rather than through

Rui sensed that they were watching his every move like a hawk, they would

greeted him with a nod. "We meet in

Bradt possessed a greater presence in real life than he did through a projection. The man somehow drew more attention from Rui than his impressive Martial Squire guards did. That was what impressed Rui, the man exerted a lot of presence

of indirect pressure that the man possessed.

that he was the guildmaster for the next four years of

being elected guildmaster, Guildmaster Bradt," Rui

Bradt nodded. "I'd like to get

"I'd like to confirm the presence of

waved his hand and one of his subordinates placed a document

an official-looking paper with the seal of the

entitled to a net sum of money that Rui was withdrawing from the account. Thus, Rui could essentially treat it as a cheque. Rui intended to pass it through the Martial Union before it was deposited into his own bank account. This way he could protect his own

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