The Martial Unity

This had happened before. He was unable to maintain his calm when it came to matters surrounding children. It was a psychological weakness that had, thankfully, yet to be exploited by an enemy. The most optimal course of action was to ignore and go about his business simply.

Yet it was one he struggled to take.

He briefly considered activating his Martial Heart and launching an omnidirectional Transverse Resonance attack, before restraining himself.

He would probably die very quickly if he dared to do that. He would be making a sworn enemy out of every single person in the Derimont Bazaar, and he had no doubt that he would be confronted by multiple Martial Artists, even Martial Seniors, and that would be it. And yet, when he looked at the terrified expressions on all those girls and boys, he felt his restraint slipping.

STEP

He walked away with a grave expression. 'I'm sorry...'

He wasn't strong enough to save them then and there.

However...

'They willpay.' Rui swore as he narrowed his eyes. 'I swear they will. Every last one of them.'

He recorded the appearances of all the sellers and providers and their staff. Killing them later on would have been too impractical and dangerous as a Martial Squire, but that was no longer the case anymore.

He was a Martial Senior, he could butcher them all with casual ease in the briefest of moments so short in time, that time would essentially have been frozen for everyone else.

His expression grew severe as he recalled what he had heard about the Beggar's Sect. That it was a sect that existed of and by the common folk, and naturally as a result, it existed for common folks as well.

'What a joke.'

funny when they were the ones who allegedly created an abysmal cesspool like the

Or so he felt.

knew that the truth was a lot

No.

it in a single place. Even if the Derimont Bazaar was disassembled and destroyed, the number of people and children suffering would

region, and scum who wanted to

Hell, he doubted that Martial Masters or even Martial Sages possessed the power to change that. It was a constant

possessed the power it

eyes clouded in

However, whatever it was, it had most likely reached the level where it

a stage of power to erase the evils of humanity from the world. Yet the Martial

and those that have

shook his head, putting the

for now, that amounted only

focus on finding the Beggar's Sect so he could gain the information he needed to eventually

to spot even a single place that bore the crest of the Beggar's Sect, something that was actually publically known, interestingly enough.

even spoke to some local information brokers, yet all of them simply stopped speaking to him, going their ways as soon as the name of the Beggar's Sect escaped his mouth. It appeared that the Beggar's Sect had a tight, yet invisible grip on the Derimont

he eventually concluded that there

bazaar. He was sure that the underground bazaars would provide more information about the Beggar's

A young girl called out to him, drawing his

no older than sixteen. An adult in most nations