The Martial Unity

Rui heaved a sigh as he skimmed through a report that the Beggar's Sect had prepared for him. The report featured the result of his successful sabotage of the harvesting operation.

Apparently, he had pissed off the Carnil Mafia. That wasn't the objective, but it was an inevitable outcome. The Beggar's Sect reported that the Gereign base of operations had ceased all large-scale operations.

'Makes sense,' Rui mused.

There was no point in continuing large-scale operations when there were enemies who had demonstrated the proven ability to bypass all surveillance measures. It wasn't possible to build passive defenses against a Martial Senior, either.

Not for a moving squad in the middle of a forest. There were plenty of ways that solid stationary structures could be granted passive defenses at extremely high levels. There was a power that came with the sheer size and scale of infrastructure.

It was one reason Rui wanted to ensure that they didn't successfully build a base in the Great Forest of Hypnonarak. They would be able to completely secure such a building even from Senior-level attacks.

The reason for this was that defensive civil engineering in this world was leaps and bounds beyond that of Earth. Despite being constructed out of Squire-level substances, a building could be engineered with special esoteric substances that could allow it to survive by spreading and diluting the power of a Senior-level attack across every square inch of the structure.

the Squire Realm, which could then be

that could do the same. The much smaller space meant that the extensive engineering that allowed for structures to withstand attacks could not easily be applied

by the Carnil Mafia. It was also why Rui couldn't just run around annihilating the infrastructure developed by

much on defensive measures for their infrastructure.' Rui snorted. 'Most nations can't dream about building anything

were at their peak, but he had to remind himself that this was not the case when it came to the

made sense that such a powerful nation

his head. 'That's suicide. I won't make it back alive if I

Martial Seniors left in the Gereign base of the Carnil Mafia, three of whom were high-grade. If the remaining two were as strong as Senior Zenshin,

was far from a universal get-out-of-trouble card. For one, it didn't improve his speed or his defenses,

him even more since he was likely to react slower due to the Greater Phantomind Void technique, causing him to mess up Flux Earther, a technique that was highly dependent on

them while they're engaging in these individual harvesting operations.' Rui narrowed his

the process of sending reinforcements to the Gereign base. Rui was impressed that they managed to get their hands on such intelligence so quickly, but it was a shame that they hadn't yet been able to gather

be heading into the forest to harvest and

page about Senior Zenshin on the table of his personal quarters. He recalled the man's unstable rage over Rui's