"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...
Rui was truly shocked. ('No, what the
sure that she was still very far away from becoming a Martial Apprentice, yet she threw his consideration out of the window
how?? Nothing has changed since three
eyes widened a bit.
considered the implications that
('In the past three months, I have been systematically increasing her awareness and cognizance of her patterns, her strengths
the VOID algorithm could be applied to aid with the
to increase the rate at which people
crept down
brother?" Mana
just a
"But you're sweating."
"It's humid, after all."
Martial
out about his strong suspicions. He would be the golden goose that could
the standstill political struggle between the Martial Union and the Royal Family. It could allow Martial Art to truly overrun the world and become the most powerful force on the
than that. However, there were many more considerations that
various Martial Sects and factions would very well wage a civil war to get their hands on the method of facilitating breakthroughs at a higher rate. If any stakeholder got their hands on him, they would force him to spit out the method to increase the rate of breakthroughs of Martial Artists and get him to pass it on. Naturally, this would be difficult because not anyone
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