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

remote appointment with the

departing

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

the best way to

Money.

person had complicated or

people had

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

was not the sole objective of the Beggar's Sect. It had other interests. Clearly, it was an organization that

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

It was simply power.

of power. The common man was the reason

he had a history of cooperation with the organization

People's Prince, whom Rui had utterly defeated

This complicated their relationship.

They were not enemies.

never friends, and the rapport he had built with the organization had been damaged by the revelation of his princehood and his

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

he was the next best option

be able to extract the information

This meeting was important.

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

he needed was pertinent information from a highly credible source. The Beggar Sage was just that. As a fellow sage

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

"-Make it quick."

the orb before him in the isolated room

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

aback by his rudeness and lack of formality, but he actually preferred it

His eyes narrowed.

Astromind, the Scrier, and the

much a hint of his cadence