The Martial Unity

1541 Preoccupations

"Enough about me, what have all of you been up to?" Rui asked, curious.

"I've been spending most of my time training and undertaking missions," Fiona replied cheerily.

"Martial Union?"

"Not at all," She shook her head. "I've been working for my own family. Undertaking operations surrounding our family businesses and matters. I stopped fulfilling open commissions from the Martial Union after I broke through to the Squire Realm."

"Ah, that must be in preparation for undertaking more responsibility within your family," Rui mused.

"Indeed," She nodded. "Our family has entanglements and obligations to many other prestigious families in the Martial community of the Kandrian Empire and other organizations, in addition…"

Her expression grew complicated. "The Dullahan Family has openly sided with Prince Raijun Ver Kandria, joining the Raijun Faction and becoming one of the donors and patrons of the Raijun Foundation. So I have been undertaking missions commissioned by His Highness' administration as well."

Rui raised an eyebrow. "Prince Raijun…I believe that's the Martial Apprentice prince, right?"

She nodded, heaving a sigh.

Clearly, she wasn't the biggest fan of this development.

of the basics. Prince Raijun was a Martial Apprentice who had managed to become an internal member of the Martial Union, joining its corps. The same position that Rui had

see…" Rui's eyes narrowed

No matter how powerful an organization was, they were wholly unable to compete for the throne unless it was through a royal descendant of royal blood competing for the throne

and deduced, Prince Raijun was most likely the front through which the Martial Union was partaking in the Kandrian Throne War. He shook his head slightly, he needed to stop getting his head tangled

busy," He commented, turning to Nel and Hever. "What

"Fighting!" Nel grinned.

Art," He commented. "I'm working on maximizing the potential

they were both on a steady path to the Senior Realm.

about you, Fiona?" He turned

been hired as an explorer by the Ministry of Ecology and

the Ministry of Ecology and Environment many times, but that

job offer he got after he successfully killed the earthen basilisk in one of his

in a heartbeat," She remarked. "The Ministry deploys me to various places and locations either to explore and scale or document them, or find and investigate certain phenomena, either anomalous or dangerous,

It makes sense that you would eventually become an explorer. Have you ever been deployed to the

Artists get deployed there. I'm building up my experience and Martial Art steadily so I can explore the

eyes lit up with passion when she

glad you seem to enjoy it," Rui nodded. "You

reconnect with old friends. This was

our statuses…" Fiona's eyes flashed with curiosity. "You must tell us what happened to you in the

just her eyes, everybody immediately grew more interested at that. Even Milliana, who was normally detached, stared at Rui with

to Rui leading to him becoming the youngest Martial Senior in