"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.

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

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 Martial Path and journey, it was not enough to

he 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

his current prowess, would have undoubtedly been the most powerful human

that had six steps, there was a limit to how much he could accomplish with his own

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

wonder that he considered leaving the Empire. That was probably much easier and far more straightforward than becoming strong enough to defy

easy as

leave and that's that." Kane folded his

only means that you're forfeiting your protection from the Lightning Sect. 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

him. "They cannot trace me that easily using regular

detecting you, it's questionable whether they'll be deployed to catch you.

towards Kane.

more severe. He understood the underlying message, there was a chance Rui would be deployed to track

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