"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.

valued his autonomy, without a doubt, he would not tolerate being

hard to obtain power that he could use to leverage to obtain the freedom he 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

of the state and the power of many. Furthermore, there were no refined Squire-level techniques considering Squires hadn't been around for a very long time. Furthermore, the evolution process probably would have been much weaker and far more incomplete

would have undoubtedly been the most powerful human in that era and

the second rung of a ladder that had six steps, there was a limit to how much he could

much stronger and obtain the power needed to take the freedom he wanted, or he simply needed to leave the wide ecosystem in

probably much easier and far more straightforward than becoming strong enough to defy his family without the help

be as easy as

leave and

much because your family is powerful and has influence within the Martial Union. You shouldn't underestimate the intelligence-gathering capability of the Martial Union particularly in regards to matters that are directly tied to its

Step technique." Kane reminded him. "They cannot trace me that easily using

does have sensory Martial Artists that are capable of detecting you, it's questionable whether they'll be deployed to

turned towards

there was a chance Rui would be deployed to track Kane if there ever came a day when the martial Union wanted

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