The Martial Unity

"Hmph, Miriam," Matriarch Nephi snorted softly. "That sounds just like her."

She turned to Rui with a deep gaze. "Yet, despite not having her or your father, you did well. Too well, in fact. I am unable to fathom how a thirty-two-year-old Awakened and reached the peak of the Bodyforger rank, especially when your great strength is not your body but a mind brimming with more thought than I have ever seen amongst bodyforgers."

Rui smiled wryly. "I had a good family that took care of me in place of my parents…I have also been blessed with miracles."

That was what his reincarnation in a new world was, as far as he was concerned, a miracle.

"Do not give all the credit to talent," Matriarch Nephi huffed. "Talent is worthless without drive. Utterly worthless. It must not have been easy to arrive at the power that you possess."

Rui smiled, accepting her compliment.

"You must wonder why we never came for you."

Her voice grew heavy.

Rui's eyes softened.

He would be lying if he didn't. The Silas Clan was undoubtedly one that cared about family deeply. It was probably the second most important thing to them, based on what he saw, after prophecy.

He didn't know why the Silas Clan had never come to adopt Rui as a baby after Miriam died. He didn't understand why they had never once come to see him or speak to him. He didn't know why he was the one who sought to find them when they had known about him for more than thirty years.

He would be lying if he thought of them positively with this in mind.

of a large family. And we deprived you of what we were obligated to

her deeply, waiting for her

entrust you to your bastard of a father," Matriarch Nephi's eyes darkened. "It was painful to accept that she found us, her own blood and kin, who had raised her with all the love in the world, to be lacking in

to bring my grandchild back into my family, but alas, I was too weak back then. Mentally and Martially. Back then, I was a high-level Mindforger, which, while

appeared to be a

emotional state, revealing something she probably shouldn't

for failing you as a descendant of the Silas Clan. It has been decades since the death of

as the emotions of

Clan. You may think that I have been deprived of a family, but I told you, thanks to my mother and father, I

elderly Sage smiled at his words. "That is good to hear. Tell

inwardly, maintaining his composure

head. "Your apprehension is understandable. However, three decades have passed. Hearing his name is not going to

"…Rui Quarrier Kandria."

She considered the name. "It suits you as much as I dislike the last

name of the orphanage

good name,"

it's been going to grow even longer after I gain the name of Silas," Rui smiled

is a splendid name. If only your first name was longer than two syllables. If I were Miriam, I would have chosen something like, hmmm, 'Ruina,' for example. In fact, I