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 walked

is time for your remote appointment with the Beggar

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

drifted about to the many thoughts he had had when thinking about the Beggar Sage

the best way to extract information from this

Money.

had complicated or

people

Beggar's Sect was an information broker. It was a commercial organization that collected and gathered

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

course, Rui did not need to be a consummate politician to be cognizant of the fact that their agenda to protect

It was simply power.

reason that the Beggar's Sect was a powerhouse. They

fact that while he had a history of cooperation with the organization and had built a

the People's Prince, whom Rui had utterly defeated in

This complicated their relationship.

They were not enemies.

rapport he had built with the organization had been damaged by the revelation of his

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

other words, he was the next best

hoped he would be able to extract

This meeting was important.

the Beggar Sage did not cooperate, he

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

me begin by saying I deeply appreciate the fact that you took the time to speak

"-Make it quick."

raspy voice with deep impatience emerged from the orb before him in the isolated room where he was to

a visual projection and the voice that the orb projected was altered beyond any hope

was taken aback by his rudeness and lack of

His eyes narrowed.

the Psycher, the Astromind, the

so much a hint of his cadence