In an underground facility in the Martial Union settlement sat a lonesome figure. He sat on the ground with folded legs and his arms resting on his knees.

He had donned his combat attire, as opposed to the formal attire that he had grown accustomed to wearing in the past three months.

His black hair was unkempt, an increasingly rare sight to see due to his position.

His visage was hardly strange or unusual, yet almost everyone standing in the room as him would be paralyzed with primal fear. The fear that came from a great threat to one's well-being and life.

Not only had Rui donned his strongest mind mask as usual, but his mind which had been consumed with the diplomatic mission for more than three months had entered a state it hadn't in recent times.

He had ejected all considerations regarding his mission from his previously scattered mind. For the most six hours, he had been honing his mind on his Martial Art and Martial Path. It took him a while to gather the entirety of his focus, conscious and unconscious.

His eyes were closed, yet it wasn't the darkness that plagues his vision.

He saw a path.

One he was standing upon.

It stretched on forever onwards and upwards.

It winded on and about.

Yet it wasn't just the path that drew his attention.

What the path winded through was equally eye-drawing.

of all kinds plague his path, each more horrifying than the last. Calamities and catastrophes of all kinds made any attempt to try

a terrifying path, yet it was all

out to him. Lulled him

path he wanted to walk

a while since I've been down

long it had been since he had actually come down here. It used it be a frequent visit for him, given how immersed in his training

('…A blunder.')

couldn't help but feel some

yet now that he was immersed in his Martial Path, he realized that it could never compare to the path that he had already

('Never again.')

grazed against his senses drawing his

STEP

STEP

STEP

had completely predicted that you would be able to ace this mission when Derun informed me of her choice of picking you for it… but I

his

was as though his pitch-black eyes had

hindsight. Look at you, if I was a little sleepy, I might even mistake you for a Martial Senior. What a potent aura. I can't wait to see how strong it will be when you

mildly. "I'm

about, you should get

down here to inform me of

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