The Martial Unity

"Take care man," Kane clasped his hand in a partial hug. "Don't get lost."

"Will do," Rui smirked. "Figure out your path forward."

"I will," Kane nodded. "Good luck.

Just like that, the two of them split ways. Kane was number one on the list of two people that Rui would be seeing off.

"You have collected all the documentation you need, correct?" Senior Sarak asked.

Rui nodded.

He was referring to information surrounding Senior Xanarn's condition. Rui had memorized all the information surrounding her condition, but he also had a copy of the information in case he needed it to have a third party verify that whatever solution he was considering on acquiring was actually able to treat and cure Senior Xanarn.

"Good, before you leave, I have something for you," Senior Sarak noted as he reached for a drawer in his desk, pulling out a well-crafted badge with the symbol of the Floating Sect engraved on top of it.

"This…" Rui murmured as he studied it.

"It makes you an official ambassador of the Floating Sect," Senior Sarak smiled. "It means that you may wield the name of the Floating Sect to fulfill the objective centering Senior Xanarn."

Rui raised an eyebrow.

That was a considerable amount of trust. Senior Sarak was giving Rui a lot of power that could be misused to bring harm to the sect. For example, if Rui ran around making powerful enemies in the name of the Floating Sect while wearing that badge, the Floating Sect would suffer greatly as it would end up gaining more enemies for absolutely no fault of its own.

kind of power was normally given to highly qualified and trusted

service officer by the standards of the Kandrian

it seemed as though this gesture was one

to get Rui to trust the sect with this

Sect by its nature was loose. It was scarily meritocratic and the cost of not being

consider the sect their home. Home was

was no home, that was a

was that trait that

effective way to maintain quality standards and was one of the reasons that the Floating Sect was unshakable in the war when it

who shined so bright that they

Ieyasu was one such guardian who was worth investing in the island. Rui was most certainly another of similar value. Rui was sure that Kane too

and was entirely cognizant of the manners in

to handle such things without Rui's presence, but he had

so much trust in him when they handed him the keys to their political capital. By giving him that power, he was sort of conditioning him to

necessarily fault Senior Sarak for employing such means to try and get Rui to become attached to the sect. At the end of the day, the man was a leader of a powerful force and had to look out for its interests, including

of manipulation was too crude and elementary to work on

appreciate the aid and trust that you are showing me by giving me this power," Rui replied with a smile. "I will make sure to use it to

"I look forward to that.