The Martial Unity

"This is a map of the entire region." She pointed to a large map inscribed on a table. Surprisingly, most of the region was empty into a no man's land and forest, while there were several small states littered here and there.

In the center of the region was a small dot representing Crexeet town.

('That's unfortunate,') Rui noted the fact that the town at the center in a region with several states littered across it.

"We have a surveillance division comprised of Martial Artists and long-surveillance scopes operating throughout the day, all days," She said. "They inform us of any attacks ahead of time, we deploy Martial Artists and potion users to combat them ahead of time, to ensure that the conflict occurs well away from the town so that the townsfolks aren't any the wiser. If you possess the necessary sensory prowess, you can serve on the surveillance division if you wish to."

Rui probably had better senses than anybody in the town, and he was sure that he did not want to be part of the division. He had no interest in being perched in some hidden trench only to spend his day keeping an eye out. He would rather fight.

Kane, on the other hand, wouldn't mind joining the surveillance division, but he didn't have Rui's sensory prowess.

"I'll take the front lines," Rui immediately replied.

"As will I,"

"Alright then," She nodded. "You don't have to worry about hierarchy or position or anything of the sort. You will simply be given a set of orders and a few guidelines, and that's that."

coordination. Since the military by design included external warriors, thus they could not have an overly sophisticated system. It needed to be simple and straightforward enough so that the temporary foreigners would be able to

or anything like that barring basic guidelines, you'll be moving independently, but the other members of the squad may also receive the same order simultaneously. You will be expected not to get in each other's way, at the

handed Rui and Kane small booklets containing some things that they needed to abide

had to admit that they were quite liberal and basic. The

acceptable,"

She raised an eyebrow. "Then again given your scholarly

anything else?" Rui

two devices. "You'll receive your instructions

meeting ended and the two of them left the

sigh. "We

your room, I

Kane nodded.

split ways as Rui headed towards the library wing,

the multiple students inside stared at him with intense stares. He

well-organized and neat, not to mention incredibly vast. Rui couldn't even imagine the sheer amount of information that was stored inside. He felt a strange curiosity as to whether he would be able to

headed towards the applied esoteric material science section. Most of the literature in

was preferable to Rui, it meant that he didn't need to spend extra effort into pruning out data that wasn't relevant to