The Martial Unity

He glanced at Master Deivon with a careful expression. The man had been remarkably upfront about the circumstances that Rui was in. He didn't need to do that, really.

It was an act of good faith.

He was trying to signal to Rui that he was still on his side without being too direct to scare Rui away.

He appreciated that. He would have actually panicked a bit more if Master Deivon had aggressively insisted that he was there to help Rui.

Instead, he chose honesty and let Rui make his own evaluation.

"What is your opinion on the matter of what happened in my two matches?" Rui asked with a careful tone. "Since you are an atheist, you must have a more sober view of what happened, correct?"

For the first time, Rui detected true uncertainty from the Martial Master. The fact that the Master did not respond immediately was telling in and of itself.

"I... don't know what to believe." He admitted with remarkable honesty. "I used to think that the Divine Prophecy was a bunch of gish-gallop that a powerful Martial Transcendent had fabricated to create a powerful religion that he could cease control of, but... I have increasingly come to believe that this may not be the case."

Rui's eyes widened.

He almost felt honoured in a twisted way.

'You're getting full of yourself, Rui.' He immediately disapproved of himself. That was not the right reaction to have in this moment.

"Surely you don't believe I'm a deity from another world with the power of Creation and Destruction of Martial Art in two hands?" Rui jested, hoping to get the Martial Master to come to his senses.

Yet he remained silent.

raised an eyebrow, realizing the

believe that you are important to the future of Martial Art, perhaps the future of the world. I believe

carefully studied the

by purely selfish incentives within the Faith. I have made my own choice. Once you finish the Martial Contest, I will obscure your departure to the best of my ability. Leave, and obtain the power that you are surely destined to have. Once you become a Martial Master, the ability of the forces of this world to infringe on

his conviction was the final step in committing himself to

had missed. He was missing

Martial Union had a vested interest in

question of whether it was worth making an enemy out of many

didn't need to go

Thank you for not infringing on me with the justification of religious providence,"

head. "It isn't that great a deed. Now go, the reconstruction will be

smiled, nodding,

about, but for now, he wanted to focus on the reason that he

passed since he departed from the Shionel Confederation, and he

was ready to break through to a higher

that didn't happen, he would leave the Virodha Theocracy and the Faith and head

he didn't break through even there. He would have to spend a lot of time searching for someone or something that could force him to break through. In fact, it would even be the case that he would have