The Martial Unity

BADUMP!

Rui's Martial Heart flared into power.

A tsunami of power erupted from deep within his body.

His cells shook as a maelstrom of power gushed from deep within them to far beyond, spreading across the entire body.

His circulatory system lit up a brilliant bright red from his chest across the entirety of his body, giving him an aura that the ignorant would mistake as godly.

His body brimmed with energy.

His quivered with power.

His eyes flared with a faint glow as he opened them, inspecting his entire body.

"I've finally returned to my peak."

After a month of gradually intensifying rehabilitative training, he gradually coaxed his body to return to its state before the battle with the Gatekeeper.

While the sensation of returning to his peak was pleasing, he was not pleased.

His eyes narrowed as his fists clenched. "Two months…"

He snuffed his Martial Heart, tutting with displeasure.

He didn't like the fact that he had to waste so much time just recovering and rehabilitating from the consequences of using the forbidden metabody technique.

It was a painful reminder of why the technique was forbidden.

If not for the fact that the Gatekeeper had also very willingly used a forbidden technique to win the battle with brute force, he would have never dared to use the technique. Two months was too much of a cost to pay, as far as he was concerned.

Especially when he was pressured by a deadline.

Now, he only had roughly three years and ten months left.

KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in."

Highness," His secretary

your remote appointment with

his outer attire before departing from the training room. "Let's get going

had had when thinking about the Beggar Sage when planning

was the best way to extract information from this

Money.

every single person had complicated

people

a commercial organization that collected and gathered information to sell it

Beggar's Sect. It had other interests. Clearly, it was an organization that worked towards its agenda of protecting the primacy

that their agenda to protect the common man was not from a place of

It was simply power.

power. The common man was the reason that the Beggar's Sect was a powerhouse. They were simply using Raul to protect their

of the fact that while he had a history of cooperation with the organization and had built a working rapport, there was a conflict of interests between him and the

the People's Prince, whom Rui

This complicated their relationship.

They were not enemies.

organization had been damaged by the revelation of his princehood and his successful campaign

as a candidate for the throne. During his campaign announcement, he conveyed a strong determination not to disenfranchise the common man. He had even disclosed very practical and undeniable reasons why he would be able to do even more for the citizens of Kandria than even his

words, he was the next best option after Raul

had hoped he would be able to

This meeting was important.

walked toward the meeting room, the more it weighed down on him. If the Beggar Sage did not cooperate, he was probably screwed. He highly doubted that the Silas Clan alone would be able to

Beggar Sage was just that. As a fellow sage of humanity, his words

to speak to me despite the immensely busy schedule that the leader

"-Make it quick."

impatience emerged from the orb before him in

visual projection and the voice that the orb

lack of formality, but he actually preferred

His eyes narrowed.

the Astromind, the Scrier, and

made sure to not change so much a hint of his cadence in regards to the final