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    The first thing Rui needed to do was find the right location under the neenth floor. This mattered a lot and would greatly impact his chances of getting away unscathed. The bedrock of theke was not evenly thick, thus it was probably best that he looked for the ce where it was thickest.


    Aiming for the thickest part of the bedrock may end up being the hardest and most time-consuming, but it would certainly be the safest. Thus he needed to pay attention to that, among other things.


    On top of that, he also needed to pay attention to the tunnels in the vicinity of the point where he was hoping to break through. If the tunnels all lead downwards, then that point was unsuitable. What he needed was a ce where there was a route upwards as well.


    The reason for this, of course, was the fact that the released water would rush through the tunnels and go downwards. Thus, if there was no way up, Rui was screwed and would need to spend quite some time in a wild escape for his life until he got far enough that the water would not reach him or found a way back up that wasn''t flushed with water.Text ? by N0ve/lDrama.Org.


    Thus a tunnel in the immediate vicinity leading him back up was definitely very important to him.


    Another condition that the hole he would create needed to satisfy was that it had to be at the lowest points of theke. If it was too high, then there would be a portion of theke that would not get drained due to being lower than the hole.


    On top of that Rui also needed to take into ount the debris that he would be creating by sting arge hole across the bedrock rtive to the size of the tunnel. He needed to make sure that the debris did not block off the tunnel, nor did it raise the height of the tunnel such that the distance between him and the hole was reduced.


    Water would travel faster through a narrower tunnel, and that was not good for him.


    A multitude of variables was within his consideration as he picked a tunnel downwards, scanning the tunnelwork below the neenth floor with his Riemannian Echo. Going down would allow him to sense everything better.


    Theke was surprisingly deep for its size. It was almost closer to a trench than it was to ake, from his perspective.


    (''That''s going to make the water st out with even greater speed,'') He murmured unhappily. Height corresponded with more pressure at the bottom, which corresponded with the speed at which the water would st out.


    Still, he wasn''t too concerned. The reflexes of a Martial Squire, when prepared, were quite remarkable. Although the water would st out at an incredible speed, he was not going to get caught unless he was truly unfortunate. What he was most careful about was the initial moment of breakage.


    Specifically, he needed to make sure that he timed it right, and was not caught off-guard. Furthermore, he needed to make sure that it wasrge enough on the very first shot, otherwise, he would need to escape even if it wasn''t, and would be forced to waste too much time


    He also needed to keep in mind that he could just peacefully go on hacking at the bedrock whistling away. Theke was also exerting a tremendous amount of pressure on the bedrock from the other side of which Rui was on. Meaning, at some point, theke''s own pressure would be enough to crack open a hole, he needed to ensure that it would be big enough.


    (''On top of that, I need to make sure that my attacks are sharp and precise. Else it is liable to cause cracks that will start leakingrge amounts of water ahead of time,'') Rui sighed. (''This is starting to be more of a pain than I had imagined it would be when I initially conceived of the idea.'')<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    It took him longer than he expected to finally settle down on an idea spot after extensive searching and filtering. He found a single spot that suited his needs.


    STEP


    "Hmm…" He inspected his surroundings when he reached his chosen spot. "Good thickness,rge tunnels, and straight tunnels where I can reach a high speed, and a decently close path upwards to avoid the water."


    He nced up. "Thirty-six meters… give or take. Just barelyrge enough it should work."


    He heaved a sigh as he prepared himself. Breaking a ten-meter wide hole in theke was the bare minimum in order to drain theke in a reasonably short timeframe. If it was much smaller than this then it would take far too long to drain theke. Rui risked theke being found by other adventurers which he most certainly did not want. He definitely wanted to cleanly finish it before any external entanglement couldplicate matters.


    He was even warier of other Martial Squires after his fiasco on the sixteenth floor with Chairman Deacon''s raiding team. The man had no doubt taken the time to form some measures that hoped to replicate the stroke of good luck of having Rui and Kane detected that day.


    He closed his eyes as he gathered his focus. He breathed deeply as he honed his mind, gathering his focus and concentration.


    "Let''s begin,"


    He pulled out his hot air pipe. Although Transverse Resonance was a sound-based technique, not a wind-based technique, it was still best to heat up the initial air particles of the sound attack, even if most of that heat was lost in transit.


    He inhaled air from the hot air pipe deeply, before facing up.


    THWOOM THWOOM!


    He shot two rapid sonic sts one after the other, the second being considerably faster than the first one. The two sonic pulses ovepped in constructive resonance as they merged into a single projectile of sound.


    BAM!!!


    The first sonic projectile mmed into the top of the tunnel, causing a huge crater.


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