The Martial Unity

"I'd like to see a map," Rui told a storekeeper. "Where can I find the Libraries of Gehu?"

The storekeeper rolled out a map, pointing at a spot on it. "About several hours of travel through carriage."

Rui nodded as he quickly scanned the map carefully and thoroughly, before leaving the store empty-handed. It wasn't long before Rui found himself near the Library of Gehu in the town of Veran within the Cerxeun Duchy.

In his time traveling through the Derschek Region, he hadn't been the victim of yet another assassination attempt. It led him to believe that it was most likely closer to a general measure as opposed to someone targeting him.

Or if someone did target him, they were either too weak to deal with the level of power that he had displayed, or their desire to take him out wasn't worth the price. In either case, it led him to believe that he was probably not special in any regard.

However, what truly drew his attention was the volatile atmosphere of the Derschek Region as he traveled through it. It wasn't that this region was impoverished, no. It was just that he got the sense that life was fleeting in this region.

The citizens lived as if they could die any moment anywhere. There was an immense air of wariness from the common folk, and he couldn't blame them.

He saw many corpses on the way to the Library of Gehu. He even witnessed a live murder and plenty of smaller acts of aggression. It was a place that did not convey even a shred of stability.

countless Martial Apprentices, most of them were hiding their Apprentice-level auras, not drawing attention to themselves. Rui figured most of them were freelancer assassins for hire given how

that in the Derschek Region, unlike in the Kandrian Empire where common folk were too poor to hire Martial Artists for anything other than the simplest of tasks, even

harmless, since ordinary people were too weak to have an impact, were now quite problematic since they could just hire an assassin to take

Silent Shadow turning the Gaha Archipelago into her

the small states and settlements that Rui had traveled through to get there, which did

arrived

impressively large infrastructure and architecture supporting it. It was extremely different from the shabby image of the book market of the Derimont

time. Evidently, they were also capable of masquerading as a cluster of elite libraries. The impressive establishment was in stark contrast to what he had witnessed

endeavor of the Gehu Consortium, a consortium of powerful corporates that each

the Beggar's Sect, it meant that the Beggar's Sect also basically controlled the Gehu Consortium, or at least one constituent. which didn't surprise Rui. If it needed to interact with the world, then it could not do so openly, and always had

he ran his Reimannian Echo through the establishment, the sheer volume, density, and complexity of the layouts and the assortment of literature meant that it served as the perfect place to hide

was just too easy to bury intelligence documentation well within the ocean of information. He had to admit, they nailed their hiding spot just

around, studying the people who entered and exited the library. Surprisingly, it didn't just comprise of posh upper-class people. He could see that

inquired about the

charge?" Rui

"The Libraries of Gehu are free of charge for all those who wish to access our vast repositories