The Martial Unity

Her concerns were very valid and sound.

There were extremely few Martial Seniors at the very highest echelons of the Senior Realm who could overcome the things that Rui would be subjecting himself to.

"My rationale is sound," Rui replied calmly. "I am strong. Far, far stronger than I was when I was training under you five years ago."

"I can see that," Master Reina remarked. "Your progress is truly astounding. I'm just cautioning you not to let it impede your judgment."

"I understand. I am doing my best to ensure that it isn't and hasn't while in regards to this decision," Rui replied with a composed tone. "My primary goal is to survive; my secondary goal is to eliminate the threat to me; I can do that by suppressing them with blackmail or even killing them then and there if I can get away with it. Thus, my goal is to exit this ordeal with the threat eliminated and no loss of quality of life where I have to be constantly protected by the Martial Union surrendering my agency."

He wasn't lying, but that wasn't the whole truth.

The truth was that he wanted to be attempted to be assassinated. He had accrued a lot of power recently. He had even gone to accrue a new dimension of his Martial Art.

The last time this had happened was when he trained under Master Zeamer, soon after that, he got to fully test the limits of his power in all-out combat against the powerful Seniors of the Carnil Mafia.

Prior to that, he had added another dimension of adaptive evolution to his Martial Art with the Metabody System, and he had gotten to rigorously test that out in the Virdhabhasa Contest.

This time, he would be testing his power out against assassins who were hired to kill him. It was not fake nor false, nor did he have to go searching for conflict and pick fights forcefully. The fight was coming to him.

just how

heaved a troubled sigh, shaking her head. "You're

who hired assassins. I'm a victim

the other way around," Master Gurren snorted. "How shameless, pretending to be prey when you're actually an ambush

shrugged, uncaring for their accusations. "As long as you fulfill your

you happy

related to the

replied, scoffing. "Especially in the Kandrian Empire. I guarantee you, regardless of whether it's the Kandrian government, any of the seven royals competing for the throne, a powerful

was unrelated to the throne war was unthinkable. He had already concluded that the culprit was in the Kandrian Empire. That was what made him confident that it was related to the Kandrian Throne War. His impact on the Kandrian Empire was beneficial to all of its residents. He was such a golden goose that nobody in the Kandrian Empire had a reason to kill

listening to the seven royals vying for the throne, it made me realize how valuable he was for

throne war was. He had done his best to steer it away from

his head, putting

more important matters to

overcome. He needed to employ every ounce of power he had mustered in the seven years he had spent

two Masters narrowed their eyes as they felt a wave of battle lust