The Martial Unity

Rui almost wondered whether he should let the Carnil Mafia establish a base in the Great Forest of Hypnonarak.

'That will definitely piss Master Zeamer off,' Rui mused.

He had come to gain a good understanding of the Martial Master's personality and temperament over the past two years. He was extremely down-to-earth, often underground even, when it came to people who had earned his affection, but he could be ruthless when it came to people he didn't.

He was also strangely possessive and very territorial. Although the elder man never said it out loud, Rui had come to realize that normal humans were hardly more than insects to him.

Unless they were women.

However, Rui discovered a disturbing apathy and detachment to people who didn't earn his affection.

He was the type who was more than willing to slaughter the entire human race if it meant impressing a woman he was targeting.

In his conversations with Master Zeamer, he came to discover that he viewed the narcotics industry surrounding the forest the same way that a human might consider an ant colony or bees being attracted to certain smells in their garden; something that wasn't too worthy of note until it became annoying.

of the forest to grow and harvest narcotic plants, it would definitely annoy Master Zeamer. He would put an end to that before it even

he considered letting them relocate and allowing Master

as my payment if I'm not

this was a bad plan. Otherwise, it was perfect,

me a way to test

Fighting against Ieyasu didn't tell him anything since he was just as much of an aberrant as Rui. On top of that, they had both been heavily restricted in

how strong he was. He was even hoping that he would get to have real fights rather than just

intend to seek that out. He needed to kill them in order to fulfill his commission payment, and that naturally meant relying on assassinations. He could only hope that the battle would unfold such that

indicated that that might very well be the case. The reason for that was that according to the security protocols of the Carnil operations, all members were to wear protective gear and armor, including Martial Seniors, to minimize casualties and injuries while in the Great Forest

Rui raised an eyebrow. "Also these

were equipped with energy-consumptive esoteric substances that could protect even the uncovered parts of the body to

would see in very few places aside from the Kandrian Empire. According to the illustration provided by the Beggar's Sect, it

shook his head with an amused smile, recalling the warning that the Silent Shadow had given

with targets above a certain level of wealth and power. However, while he knew that, he didn't think that he would run into circumstances where even Martial Seniors in the field would be equipped with

compounds released into the air by the forest.'