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?"

grinned. "This is Shionel Dungeon all

an amused sigh as he felt a mild headache coming about him. It was all nice and well

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 his entire life.

wasn't long before he sat Kane down, explaining all the details to him

we're done, got it?"

yep, I got it,"

go through it one more

convinced Kane fully understood the sophisticated and complicated

to begin fulfilling the plan that Rui had put together that could allow him to

Rui asked his chief of

she replied. "We have prepared the most luxurious and comfortable carriage for your journey to the Adventurer's Guild, as well as the finest staff to

RUMBLE

The world shook.

the weight of the new presence that

STEP

the Sloth Sage. "I am

over with," he yawned sleepily. "This looks like it's

"I prepared it with you

then, I shall

Sloth Sage as the sole member of his security detail. Naturally, it meant more work for him, but he

the enormous luxurious carriage set off into motion, ascending into the air as it

BOOM!

boom, crossing the sound barrier, and just a few hours later, it had already arrived at the western border of the Kandrian Empire, smoothly crossing it. He had already received

sigh once they left the Kandrian Empire. He knew he wasn't

Sloth Sage had already dozed off, relaxing across one of

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

she wasn't the