The Martial Unity

Rui woke up, feeling a touch of peace that he hadn't experienced in what felt like forever.

Yet it wasn't enough.

His eyes hadn't lost their edge.

Senior Xanarn did not fail to notice that.

"Woken up yet?" She asked with a melancholic tone, her head resting on his chest. She had hoped to be able to soothe his mind, yet she had underestimated how deep his dissatisfaction was.

It was not something that could be resolved with the pleasures of the flesh.

"How long was I asleep?" Rui asked.

"About nine hours." She replied softly. "You must not have slept in days."

"A week." Rui heaved a sigh, getting up.

"Are you still not going to tell me what happened?" She asked.

"..." Rui paused for a moment before he shook his head. "It's not something I wish to recount just yet. I came to understand how insignificant I am. That's all that matters at the end of the day."

She pouted unhappily. "What do you intend to do?"

"Gain power." His words were sharp as his eyes narrowed.

An air of peril formed around him.

It was volatile. Yet Senior Xanarn could only watch unhappily as he refreshed himself before leaving.

His fist clenched as the intensity in his eyes only grew.

bloodlust unlike anything he had experienced before, but there was

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second chamber of the Floating Sect. He almost couldn't believe it when he had been informed Xanarn, yet even he couldn't help but smile. Time and time again, Kane proved that

Rui called out to

Suddenly, the door opened.

He grinned as the two clasped

smiled. His words were kind, yet his

Squire Realm didn't matter to him anymore, and it was hard for him to hide

from someone who had known

furrowing his eyebrows, as

with sincerity. "No matter how tired I was, I should have come to see you. But I was with Senior Xanarn and I

off with

softened as a melancholic smile sprouted

too deep for such superficial issues to possibly put cracks into it. Kane needed only one look in

asked with uncertainty. "You were gone away only for a year, and I know for a fact that you definitely spent an overwhelming majority of

heart to brush Kane off. Once the two of them gained some privacy, Rui recounted

expression grew increasingly more incredulous as

away yet again while Master Deivon held back that crazy bitch." He needed to exert visible restraint to control his anger. "I ran for an entire week before finally arriving at the

at him with an expression of shock. He was stunned speechless, his jaw had

away, blinking

had been through something intense, but the story that he had just narrated exceeded every expectation that Kane

over to visit him immediately. Especially now that he learned about the tribulations that Rui had overcome just to get

It was no wonder.

know what to say. The magnitude of the story he had just told him was more than what

we can be certain that she

needle in the largest haystack would be a trivial task in comparison,

"...Now what?"

grow stronger." Rui

everything to Kane, giving Kane a greater context to

over the past year," Kane sighed. "He only defeats me with greater ease each time we fight, even though I have only