"Phew…" Rui exhaled deeply with relief when he entered the depths of the Shionel Dungeon. It was quite a strange reaction since most Martial Squires had the exact opposite reaction. Yet Rui felt quite secure in the dungeon, oddly enough.
Because he knew that every other creature in the dungeon was extrely insecure about their safety. He was the predator in the dungeon.
He considered the discussion that he'd just had with Guildmaster Bradt.
('A good outco, for sure,') Rui nodded. Thankfully, it more or less went as he predicted, though he felt as though he had perhaps underestimated how much Guildmaster Bradt would look into his identity.
This was rough, he shouldn't have walked legitimately into the dungeon when he first cleared the second floor.
('Tsk, made a bit of a mistake,') Rui tutted. Still, it was far from a blunder, just a sub-optimal decision that reduced the solidity of his plan from as high as he'd ideally have wanted it to be.
He would need to take more precautions when it ca to entering the dungeon, for one, he could not enter the dungeon normally on the sa day that he planned on performing an extre feat like clearing the dungeon. That would simply further narrow him down as a suspect. He needed to frequently raid the dungeon normally, and he could not do anything extre on those days.
He also needed to make use of his regular accounts in the Adventurer Guild, and basically act the way the average Martial Squire did. He did not want to go too crazy.
He would save that for when he covertly entered the Shionel Dungeon with the help of Kane's Void Step. Thus no one would be able to tie him clearing floors to his true identity.
Furthermore, he could get rid of any attempt of trying to track him via who enters the dungeon and when this way, thereby clearing removing any potential issues of him for coincidentally entering the dungeon when he first cleared it.
Of course, new Martial Squires were pouring in every day, so it was frankly a aningless coincidence and did not increase the probability that he would be found by any aningful degree.
Still, he did not want to take any chances.
However, ultimately, he was quite satisfied with how this eting turned out to be.
"You're finally here, Kane," He said abruptly said to seemingly no one.
"Look," Kane appeared out of thin air. "I understand you can sense , and I understand you can sense in the dungeon. But how do you do both simultaneously? Shouldn't the difficulty of sensing in the dungeon be astronomically higher? How do you still have no problem."
Rui chuckled at the outburst. "It's because I'm not directly sensing you. I'm sensing sothing inanimate that is reacting to you."
"Huh?"
Rui considered his words for a mont. "It would be like if you were walking on a very marshy plain, leaving behind footprints while using Void Step. A normal person could not possibly sense you, but they can still pay attention to the marsh and the mud, and notice your footprints. Thus, they can track your location even if they cannot directly sense you. I'm basically doing the sa thing but with space itself, rather than a marsh."
"I have a technique with which I can walk without leaving footprints behind, though,"
Rui furrowed his eyebrows as he gave Kane a pointed look.
"Alright fine, that does make sense," Kane sighed. "So, how did your little eting go?"
"A success," Rui replied calmly, getting up to his feet. "We'll get the affirmation before the weekends."
"Good to hear, but what's taking so long?"
"Well, he can't just take at my word regarding the map," Rui replied. "He'll verify it, then we'll get the ssage."
"What ssage?"
"A new andnt to the existing rules and regulations of the Adventurer Guild," Rui smirked.
"That's one hell of a ssage,"
"Indeed,"
The two of them walked out of the Shionel Dungeon freely with Void Step in effect. Rui did his part by suppressing his power to that of a normal human with the help of his Mind Mask.
Later that week, his prediction ca to be. He joined the large crowd at the center of the town where a giant equivalent of a press hearing was being held by Guildmaster Bradt on behalf of the Shionel rchant Guild announcing the revisions and andnts to existing policy surrounding the necessity of identity verification and registration to start companies and financial guild accounts.
A huge uproar rippled across the nation at the seemingly abrupt change in policy as the Shionel rchant Guild surprisingly laxed its registration protocols, despite having set those in the first place, for seemingly no reason.
A lot of speculation erged around this as many theorized that the Shionel rchant Guild was unable to withstand the pressure from foreign companies regarding the high level of requirents needed to operate comfortably in the Shionel Confederation in regard to any venture of the Shionel Dungeon. After all, this certainly benefited foreign Martial Squires more than any other group.
Many speculated that this was an initiative to allow for an even greater influx from those Martial Artists whose identities were quite tricky. After all, the Shionel rchant Guild has signed extensive extradition treaties with all foreign nations in the geographic vicinity, it was the bare minimum that was required, and they were required by law to hand over any criminals who were fugitives from other nations.
This new andnt made it a lot easier for people with less than clean backgrounds and histories to enter the nation and partake in the raid and plunder of the Shionel Dungeon and even operate in the markets legally thanks to the new anonymous registration policies.
However, there was no genuine official reason barring aningless diplomatic blubber, and there were only two people in the world who understand the reason for the significant and important event.
"'I accept your deal'," Rui voiced out loud as he read the ssage that Guildmaster Bradt was conveying to him, and nobody else.
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