"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.

autonomy, without a doubt, he would not tolerate being beheld by another group with interests that weren't entirely

leverage to obtain the freedom he sought. But he realized that merely breaking through to the Squire Realm was not enough. While

was 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 of many. Furthermore, there were no refined Squire-level techniques considering Squires hadn't been around for a very long time. Furthermore, the

most powerful human in that era

rung of a ladder that had six steps, there

to get much, much stronger and obtain the power needed to take

far more

not going to be as easy as you

just leave and that's

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

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

Rui admitted. "While the Martial Union does have sensory Martial Artists that are capable of detecting you, it's questionable whether they'll be deployed to catch you. Most of them will

turned towards

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

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