Thankfully for him, the military area wasn't isolated from the nation's population, like in the middle of a desert, or something like that. It didn't stray away from the southern town of Derendal, and he could hand not too far from the military base without looking like an intruder or necessarily drawing attention.
The base was absolutely massive, almost a small town in and of itself.
('And it has rigorous anti-espionage measures,') Rui mused.
When he tried sensing the happenings of the facility using Seismic Mapping and Tempestuous Feel, he couldn't sense much.
That was to be expected, anti-espionage esoteric technology was something he had run into many times. It was necessary given that one lived in a world with Martial Squires with greatly powerful senses.
He sat in a bar not too far away from the establishment, as his Riemannian Echo kept a check of the front gate.
He quickly began documenting the details of all those who entered and exited the facility with scrupulous care, before storing and organizing them in his head.
He memorized the appearance of every person that entered the facility, giving them a codename, memorizing their attire, sex, the means of transportation they arrived by, the protocols that they underwent, and the words they exchanged. He also memorized every word that the security team uttered in the time that he spent there.
Time passed, but by the end of the day, he had an extremely large reservoir of data that he had cleanly organized into relevant fields.
('Interesting,') Rui murmured once he tabulated the data. ('All people who entered the facility had to show proof of identification and verification of security clearance, except for the coachmen who drove the carriage into the facility. Their identities were never questioned, nor were they stopped.')
It meant that there probably were special arrangements for all the coachmen of the carriages and other aiding employees of the various people who entered the facility. That was one possible avenue of infiltration that Rui could explore.
He had considered the possibility of sneaking into a carriage, but unfortunately, the security check-ups were not light. The carriage was thoroughly checked to make sure that there were no problems. Sneaking into the facility by hiding in a carriage was not possible. A sensory Martial Squire scanned the carriage with his senses every time to make sure that there was nothing off about it.
This was one issue that Rui had to confront, among others.
After heavy consideration, he temporarily ruled out faking authority or impersonation. He didn't have the means and tools for that. In his evaluation, it had a particularly high chance of failure if anybody went an extra step to try and fact-check him.
Furthermore, if he entered with authority, he would most certainly have to deal with someone else in authority, who would most certainly know he was full of shit.
It would only work if he was highly familiarized with everything that he needed to know in order to make sure that the facade was maintained.
Furthermore, if he didn't ensure that the Martial Squire that vetted the carriages was incapable of sensing Rui's true status as a Martial Squire. That was the biggest issue at the moment. It was too risky to just pray for the best and hope that the Martial Squire didn't sense his true power.
He needed to confirm that he could even survive being scanned by the Martial Squires vetting the carriages that passed through.
('Tsk, it's a shame, but I'll need to take a few small risks,') Rui tutted. He wasn't fond of it, but it needed to happen.
However, for the time being, he was content just observing and gaining more data. It wasn't until the third day that he found something new.
('Oh?') Rui raised an eyebrow. ('It seems that there are those other than private coachmen who can get in without too much scrutiny.')
It appeared that low-level manual labor employees had a more basic check-up. Furthermore, delivery carriages also passed through without too much inspection by the deliverer. Partially because the deliverer wasn't really allowed to go anywhere asides from wherever the shipped supplies would be unloaded and stored.
Still, it was something that Rui could consider as a way to get in, but he wasn't sure how far he would be able to get in using this method.
('I don't have multiple attempts either, most likely,') Rui mused. ('I will probably be recognized, or at the very least the risk is too high.')
He needed some form of identity that would get him as deep into the military complex as possible but without putting him in a position where he could potentially expose himself as a spy at the moment.
Over the next few days, he thoroughly ruled out the possibility of impersonating regulars, the probability of failure was too high, he also completely ruled out the possibility of faking authority and clearance, the means by which he would obtain convincing fake documents was too tricky.
Most nations used some form of esoteric uniqueness in such documents in order to verify that they were real, which means he would most likely need to come into contact with someone that can get him such documents nonetheless and is willing to purchase them.
('Such a person would be deeply entrenched into the underworld of the Kaddar Region, unfortunately,') Rui sighed.
He had no intention of going that far and undertaking a potentially dangerous solution. What he needed was a less risky, less demanding solution with fewer prone to risks.
It was unfortunate but the simplest of means were also the least promising in so far as how close to the mysterious package purchased by the Graheria Kingdom.
"Hmmm..." Rui narrowed his eyes. "All I need is intelligence on the package, and I'm set. Being able to sense the package directly definitely helps but I also will need context on what it is, which requires me to gain information from the documentation on it, or from people within revealing what it is."
