They were all silent for a while, trying to process the fact that they were still alive. Rui appeared calm and relaxed but in reality, his mind was a maelstrom of chaos.
('Holy shit, we beat a Martial Squire.') His eyes widened as the full gravity of their situation dawned on him. ('The Martial Union is going to go nuts when they learn about this.')
Still, the context made the situation less absurd. The Martial Squire they were facing was nerfed and shackled in several ways.
If she had been given even a month of training and even a single Squire-level technique of the weakest grade, she would have crushed them.
Rui recalled how weak he was when he first broke into the Apprentice Realm. Back then, he hadn't mastered even a single Apprentice-level technique. Any Martial Apprentice could casually toy with him with Apprentice-level techniques.
The Martial Squire was in a similar situation with the Squire Realm.
