"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.

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

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

of the power of the state and the power of many. Furthermore,

current prowess, would have undoubtedly been the most powerful human in that era and could

Squires were just on the second rung of a ladder that had six steps, there was a limit to how much he could accomplish

either needed to get much, much stronger and obtain the power needed to take the freedom he wanted, or he simply needed to

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

to be as easy as you might be thinking." Rui

not? I just leave and that's that." Kane

But it doesn't really mean 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 own interests, such

him. "They cannot trace me that

Artists that are capable of detecting you, it's questionable whether they'll be deployed

towards Kane.

severe. He understood the underlying message, there was a chance Rui would be deployed to track Kane if there ever came a day when the martial

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