The Martial Unity

Chapter 3376: Amare The Damsel In Distress

”Listen up close, little ’Martial Artist’...” the wolf-man began with a malicious grin. ”Put your hands up if you don’t want to see this...”

Rui stopped listening to him, focusing only on Amare with a dubious gaze. Her exterior acting was better than he had expected. The old Amare would not have been able to fake fear so easily, but with the experience of Esil, she was able to fake being a damsel in distress quite well.

She also gained a playful side to her that she hadn’t had before.

Even as she put on a fearful expression, Rui could sense her giggling inside her mind, staring at him playfully.

”Hey!” the wolf man roared, drawing his attention. ”Didn’t you hear what I said?! Stop resisting or else she dies!”

”...”

”Hehehe? So afraid that you’re frozen in fear? I don’t blame you. Looks like these Martial Artists from the Panama Continent are just pussies!”

His words earned a bout of laughter from everybody around him.

”Still, you may be pussies, but both of you will fetch a good price in the black market. I know some eccentrics who are interested in young men, and this one...”

His eyes grew lustful as they turned to Amare.

”There’s no end to the number of people who will want to get a taste of you.”

”Nooo!” Amare tried her best distressful reaction. ”Save me, Rui!”

Rui simply heaved a sigh as his pitch-black eyes shifted to the wolf-man with a perilous edge to them.

The endless ocean of darkness within them stirred as they seemed to come alive, swallowing everybody around them. Chills crawled across their skin as they immediately stiffened, gritting their teeth as a profound sense of doom gripped their heart.

”D-Did you not hear what I said?” the wolf-man stammered. ”I’ll kill her! I swear to god I’ll do—”

BADUMP!

Rui’s Martial Heart and Mind came to life as he unleashed his Martial Embodiment.

It spread, consuming their attackers and Amare in the blink of an eye, before Rui immediately shut his Realms of power down before the Embodiment could go any further.

It lasted for just the briefest of microseconds.

And that was enough.

The light of life in the eyes of their attackers had already collapsed.

Their bodies grew limp as they collapsed.

THUD

Rui’s Martial Embodiment had erased their mind with the sheer force of information that he had ravaged their consciousnesses with. He had turned them into vegetables who were entirely brain dead.

He had shut it off in time to ensure that it didn’t harm anybody beyond a radius of fifteen meters, after having already verified that there was no one innocent within that range.

Of course, while his Water took the lives of those around him, it merely caressed Amare gently, brushing past her with love and affection. She beamed as she leaped towards him, hugging him tightly.

”You saved me!”

Rui scoffed. ”More like I entertained you. I don’t remember you being so mischievous. Esil has rubbed off too much on you.”

”Hehe...” she buried her head in his chest while he simply embraced her, shaking his head with a hint of exasperation before studying the men that he had just killed. They wore similar clothing, donning a thick black oversuit that felt far too impractical and uniform to be a coincidence.

”Must be a gang or something,” Rui remarked with a huff. ”Well, they picked the wrong target, unfortunately for them. However, given how quickly we were attacked after word about our identity got out, I can tell that this isn’t going to be the last, either. They want to capture us and turn us into sex slaves.”

”How scary,” Amare murmured. ”What am I going to do without a knight in shining armor to protect me?”

”...” Rui simply stared at her before shaking his head once more. ”Well, let’s hope they have some money on them.”

”Stealing from the dead is in bad taste,” Amare muttered as she watched Rui manipulate heaven to extract their pouches.

”Hey, I think it’s fair compensation for your emotional distress,” Rui smirked. ”After all, you were so afraid, weren’t you? It’s only fair that we take their money to compensate for that.”

Now it was Amare’s turn to simply stare at him silently.

”Oh, we got some gold,” Rui remarked as he pulled out a thick pouch with gold coins in the wolf-man’s inner pockets. ”These guys are definitely part of some gang. I can’t be bothered with getting involved with more nonsense, so let’s dip before the others can come get them. We should find an inn to stay at home for tonight. Don’t expect any luxury, though.”

Rui and Amare departed from the alley quickly, heading away to another part of the city to find an inn to stay at, hopefully to avoid being targeted any further by whichever gang the goons they had killed was a part of.

They settled for an inconspicuous inn with the most bare basic facilities. It was a single room with a bathroom attached, along with a joint kitchen of sort and a joint double-bed.

”Where are you going?” Amare watched him put on his sandals with raised eyebrows.

”A trade hub like the Hlakaschken Trade Empire undoubtedly has an excellent information brokerage black market,” Rui remarked. ”I’m trying to see if I can find some more information about the situation in Kiriket, so I’ll be off for a bit. No need to wait up on me, I might be gone some time since I’m completely unfamiliar with this empire.”

”Stay safe!” Amare waved him goodbye.

Rui smiled wryly with amusement. ”I’ll be careful, it’s a dangerous world out there.”

He departed from the inn, activating his misdirection as he became virtually invisible, blending into the background perfectly.

”Now then...” he gazed at the twilight sky and the setting Sun with a knowing expression. ”Where do information brokers reside?”

The Beggar Sage spent his time simply begging on the streets, pretending to be homeless. Rui simply needed to put on a specific badge on the Panama Continent to get in contact with the Beggar Sage.

But he didn’t know anybody like that in the Hlakaschken Trade Empire, unfortunately, so he needed to go find such a person.