The Martial Unity

As Rui belatedly realized, the ramifications of defeating the Gatekeeper were far greater than he had imagined.

A new burden fell on his shoulders.

The title of the strongest Martial Senior in the Kandrian Empire.

This wasn't the first time that he had been acknowledged as the strongest of the Realm. He had experienced just this in the Apprentice and Squire Realms as well, but he didn't expect that he would thrust into the pinnacle this early.

He still felt a nagging sense of unworthiness.

It stemmed from the fact that he needed to activate Angel of Laplace before the battle began and stall while he furiously processed the technique.

This was all fine and well in a duel setting, but the fact of the matter was that most of the battles that Rui fought were not duels; they were genuine life-and-death battles. He would not always get the chance to simply activate Angel of Laplace before the battle began.

He also would have undoubtedly lost if the Angel of Laplace had not kickestarted the predictive model to initial completion. The Gatekeeper was so much stronger that even Rui's greatest trump card could only allow him to maintain a stalemate of not dying.

"Tsk," Rui tutted, narrowing his eyes.

had ever had to tame. Short of the actual VOID algorithm

able to use it in combat seamlessly was the day that he would be entirely confident of being regarded as the

he received from people in his orbit and beyond

attitude that people showed him when he got all the high-ranking

others, he was the de facto third Emperor of Kandria. He was undoubtedly the one who would ascend the throne and gain power that equaled the Martial Union's.

from those around him, as he had already

the Emperor

more prone to see the shadow of the

was an unpleasant

determination not to ascend the throne as

the month that he had been recovering, he immediately secluded himself in returning to his physical peak. While his health was entirely fine, his

than training his techniques, he simply accustomed his body to getting pushed to the limit comfortably. This process would normally take far longer for humans,

Empire before he reached his peak. The Beast Domain was not a place he could afford to

he made sure to keep pretenses up and not let his true intentions be divulged, which wasn't easy, but he had gained more

had gained as a result of expanding his faction to learn more about the human sages under the pretense of seeking to reel these extraordinary individuals into his faction

was a highly plausible excuse that did not evoke any suspicion because he was not the only one who had sought to achieve just this. Many powerful members of the ruling class of humanity had already tried to win

of

for lack