"Hey!" Kane snapped his finger in front of Rui, drawing his attention. "Are you even listening?"

"Ah." Rui jerked back lightly. "My bad, I zoned out a little. You were saying?"

"I was saying that I was considering leaving the Empire someday." Kane sighed.

Rui's eyes widened. "But why?"

"To get away from all of this," Kane replied with a tired tone. "My family, the politics, all of it."

"I thought you had more or less resolved the matter regarding your family?" Rui raised an eyebrow. "By joining the Lightning Sect."

"I thought so too, but I realized that the Wind and Lightning Sects were just as suffocating as my family." He sighed. "They protect me from my family, but that gives them lots of leverage over me. Put that on top of the fact that they naturally have very high expectations from the start due to my potential and talent, it makes it hard to live the way I want."

"Damn..." Rui's eyes narrowed slightly.

understand and sympathize with. Rui absolutely valued his autonomy, without a doubt,

sought. But he realized that merely breaking through to the Squire Realm was not enough. While was true that the breakthrough to the Squire Realm was an important milestone in his

alive half a millennium ago, this would have been enough. After all, the birth of Martial Squires a millennium ago was what allowed Martial Artists to break free of the power of the state and the power

his current prowess, would have undoubtedly been the most powerful human in that era and could have easily earned the freedom he

a ladder that had six steps, there

to take the freedom he wanted, or he simply needed to leave the wide

no wonder that he considered leaving the Empire. That was probably much easier and far more straightforward than

to be as easy as

leave and that's that." Kane folded

Union. You shouldn't underestimate the intelligence-gathering capability of the Martial Union particularly in regards to matters that are directly tied to its own interests, such as one of the most promising Martial Squires

Void Step technique." Kane reminded him. "They cannot trace

questionable whether they'll be deployed to catch you. Most of them will probably be of the higher Realms. The only Martial Squire I know that that

turned towards

deployed to track Kane if there

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