"Don't you want to know what happened, big brother?" Mana raised an eyebrow.

"The details don't matter as much, but yes." Rui nodded. "Whenever you want to."

Mana paused for a moment, before sighing. "We ran into a Martial Apprentice. He broke my jaw and Max's ribs."

That was about as strong as any justification for a loss one could have. Of course, that didn't make things better, a loss was still a loss.

"By the time we could even gather ourselves, it was already over." Max gritted his teeth. "That girl, Crea Jenken? She broke through to the Apprentice Realm and wiped the floor with that other Martial Apprentice. Damn, I wish I was li-"

"Wait." Rui paused abruptly, trying to conceal his shock with a mind mask. "You're telling me a girl broke through?"

"Yeah." Max nodded.

"Her name was Crea Jenken? You're sure?" He asked in an unassuming tone.

"Pretty sure that's what they called her when they passed her." Max scratched his head.

The two would have noticed something odd in his demeanor had they been in a normal state of mind, but they were too consumed by themselves to do so.

"Mmm..." Rui nonchalantly nodded.

Inside, though...

was truly shocked.

sure that she was still very far away from becoming a Martial Apprentice, yet she threw his consideration out of the

three months

eyes widened a bit.

implications that

about self-awareness...') Rui noted as he came to a realization. ('In the past three months, I have been systematically increasing her awareness and cognizance of her patterns,

it be that the VOID algorithm could be applied to aid with the self-exploration process needed to gain the degree of self-awareness to discover

a way to increase the rate

shiver crept down

you ok, big brother?" Mana asked, noticing

it's just a little cold

"But you're sweating."

"It's humid, after all."

the Martial

suspicions. He would be the golden goose that could accelerate

the Royal Family. It could allow Martial Art to truly

the situation was infinitely more complex and nuanced than that. However, there were many

hands on him, they would force him to spit out the method to increase the rate of breakthroughs of Martial Artists and get him

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