The Martial Unity

Rui and Kane had decided to proceed with absolute caution. They abandoned their inn and all the belongings in it permanently. Rui had decided that it was simply not worth returning anywhere near that inn.

Most of the time they traveled via Void Step, otherwise, they had retreated to one of the safehouses of the Martial Union for now.

"Have you considered our offer?" Commissioner Reze asked, throwing a pointed look toward Rui.

Rui didn't respond immediately.

Some time ago, Commissioner Reze had made an offer to Rui in the event that his identity was revealed. An offer to protect him and his family from the Underworld and Chairman Deacon, as well as the various foreign and international forces that Rui had pissed off.

In return, Rui was to become an internal member of the Martial Union and offer complete subordination to the Martial Union.

Rui was not stupid, he knew that the consequences of having his identity exposed were not something he could handle by himself.

There was no Martial Art technique project he could embark on that would allow him to handle being targeted by so many powerful forces and nations. Not at the Squire level, at least.

As a Martial Squire, he simply was powerless against too many forces.

grow stronger,') He sighed

enough, he had a storm looming on the horizon that could hit him and the people he cared about the most at any

couldn't dismiss the offer

Union truly possessed the power to protect him from the many forces that had a bone to pick with Rui. Even if there were other forces of similar power, such as the four powerhouse nations, none of them

was not worth provoking a war over against the Martial Union and Kandrian Empire. Especially when he was no longer relevant since the

few steps short of becoming a slave of the

had not phrased it this way, Rui was not a fool. He knew that accepting this deal meant that the

his autonomy and freedom far too much. There were little to no detriments to adopting such a lifestyle, and the number of factors that

now that he had experienced what growing stronger for his own ambitions and goals was like, he felt missions were incredibly bland and boring. In fact, he never wanted to return to

that could also earn him money by providing viable

a billionaire of the Panama Continent. Thus he could forget about the

why he

act against his interests. It was in the Martial Union's interests that an extraordinarily brilliant Martial Squire as promising as Rui grew to actualize all of his

quite likely that the Martial Union would be quite careful with how they treated Rui. They did not want to give