The Martial Unity

On top of that, while Kane was an assassin, he did focus on a direct approach that was largely overlapping with frontal combat skills.

These were enough rational grounds to dismiss the value proposition that he had to offer as opposed to the risk that he could bring with him.

However, Rui was unable to bring himself to outright refuse Kane firmly.

He knew that he was part of the reason for Kane's Martial drive. In the past three years since Rui returned to the Kandrian Empire and broke him through to the Senior Realm, Kane had isolated himself in rigorous, long-term training and mission-completion to gain more experience.

He had undoubtedly grown much since he had broken through to the Senior Realm, but from what Rui could see, he had yet to reach the threshold of a high-grade Martial Senior.

More importantly, Rui knew that refusing him here would not be good for his Martial drive. Even if it wasn't strictly his fault, Rui would definitely feel very guilty and sorrowful if he was responsible for crippling Kane's Martial drive.

The correct answer was telling him no, but...

"..."

Rui was unable to bring himself to do that.

A tense moment passed before Rui heaved a sigh.

"Fine. You can come along."

"YES!" Kane leaped into the air with delight, reaching hundreds of meters into the sky instantly. "Woohooo!"

Rui felt a tinge of regret even as he watched Kane with an amused expression. It wasn't the right thing to involve Kane in the mess. That was the situation that Rui had put himself in to fix everything wrong in his life at the moment.

But, he appreciated Kane's company. They were undoubtedly best friends.

"Listen," Rui grew serious. "If we're going to do this, we're going to have to be even more careful than we were last time, got it?"

Kane grinned. "This is Shionel Dungeon all over again. If it ain't broke, don't fix

sigh as he felt a mild headache coming about him. It was all nice and well to want to help his friend, but

had a tremendous amount of resources as well as the support of powerful people. Thus, it was possible to pull it off even if he was under far greater scrutiny than he had ever been before in

details to him and what he

got it?"

I got it," Kane nodded

through it

complicated multi-layered plan right down to the very letter. Kane was sharp, but Rui's plans were

that could allow him to join Rui without anybody knowing, Rui continued

ready?" Rui asked his chief

Guild, as well as the finest staff to cater to your needs and all the other goods in storage

RUMBLE

The world shook.

and earth bent under the weight of the new presence that had

STEP

lightly, greeting the Sloth Sage. "I am grateful for your services. I

yawned sleepily. "This looks like

prepared it

shall gladly partake

of his security detail. Naturally, it meant more work for him, but he was strangely understanding this time, much to

the enormous luxurious carriage set off into motion, ascending into

BOOM!

Kandrian Empire, smoothly crossing it. He had already received authorization from the Kandrian Border Patrol

Kandrian Empire. He knew he wasn't going to come back any

dozed off, relaxing across one of the many

appeared out of thin air, relaxing on a seat opposite Rui. "Finally,

the