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.

path, each more horrifying than the last. Calamities and catastrophes of all kinds

terrifying path, yet it

that, it called out to him. Lulled him

path he wanted

been a while since I've been

enter the mental landscape of his Martial Path when he immersed his everything into it. Yet, now that he was here, he realized how long it had been since he

('…A blunder.')

but feel

It was even enjoyable, yet now that he was immersed in his Martial Path, he realized that it could never compare to the path that he had already chosen. A path

('Never again.')

stifled presence suddenly grazed against his senses drawing his attention and

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me of her choice of picking you for it… but I have to say…" Senior Ceeran paused. "I still like this you more than that

his eyes

though his pitch-black eyes

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

mildly. "I'm assuming

you

here to inform me of that yourself, you know?" Rui remarked as

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