The Martial Unity

The journey was a lot less solemn than Rui was expecting.

He was leaving his family for the foreseeable future. Both his families.

He was leaving his friends, his faction, his supporters, and his patrons behind.

He was leaving his father behind.

He was heading to the Beast Domain, an extremely dangerous place, and would be searching for the Divine Doctor.

Yet, the banter between Kane and Master Reina kept the atmosphere light. The Sloth Sage snoring away in another compartment made it difficult to feel particularly heavy.

Yet, inwardly, he could feel his nerves tingling.

"Wait, so you were the one who helped master Phantomind Void? That's crazy, you gotta help me with my Void Step technique…"

"You have a greater affinity for stealth than he does; you should focus on physical stealth in addition to misdirection," Master Reina gave him tips and instructions.

"I'll definitely have to train under you when we get back," Kane nodded. "Also…"

While the two of them conversed, Rui closed his eyes, entering his Mind Palace as he revised the information that he knew about the Adventurer's Guild. While those two could afford to relax, he had an important meeting.

The Adventurer's Guild was not only the largest Martial broker for services relating to the Beast Domain between the consumer market and Martial Artists, but it also had powerful cultural impacts on human civilization. The Shionel Adventurer's Guild, for example, that set up during the Shionel Dungeon raid was a copy-paste of the Panamic Adventurer's Guild on a smaller scale.

One of the greatest tenets of the guild was its pledge to never bear arms against humanity or in inter-human conflicts. It would exclusively make use of its services and capital in relation to the Beast Domain.

one of the reasons it had received widespread support from across human

impact on the ecology of the continent and its continuous damage to the Beast

intended to dangle in front of the

be able to ignore and would be more inclined

going to

Guildmaster Vaughn Shelbous Rauebeinon

powerful Martial Sages of human civilization, the Veritable Venator. He was an extremely competent administrator and manager, as well as someone with a master's degree in Beast Domain ecology and an expert in business affairs and had

other words, he was an

not someone

of the Beggar Sage and his mission to grant immortality to geniuses

Sage give Guildmaster

Probably not.

fact that Rui hadn't gotten it proved that merely intelligence was

degree of impact on

did not change the fact that Rui needed to carefully dangle political support in return for thorough aid in searching

Adventurer's Guild, but money left traces, traces that could be found and potentially used to sniff

getting money involved for

as they traveled to the headquarters of the Adventurer's Guild in North Panama, in the Panamic Adventurer Town. The largest market for adventurer missions and commissions. An enormous town dedicated to

the tremendous speeds that far outstripped sound by orders of magnitude, it still took them nearly an hour to reach

could spot the enormous town

Panamic Adventurer Town…" Rui

asked with an interested tone. "It's been a long time since I

used to

cover," she remarked. "I would often

Kane frowned.