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.

if you resent me," Matriarch Nephi closed her eyes. "Every child deserves the love of a large family. And we deprived you of what we were

gazed at her deeply, waiting

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 comparison to her husband. A man whose family was filled with hatred. It drove me

I was a high-level Mindforger, which, while powerful, is not enough to protect the Silas Clan from those who wish to get their hands on

as he latched onto what appeared to be a clue

her emotional state, revealing something

of the Silas Clan. It has been decades since the

grew taut as the emotions of

family, but I told you, thanks to my mother and father, I gained a family that gave me all the love that

Sage smiled at his words. "That is good

inwardly, maintaining his

apprehension is understandable. However, three decades have passed. Hearing his

"…Rui Quarrier Kandria."

much as

name of the orphanage where

name,"

of Silas," Rui smiled wryly. "I

names are a sign of prestige in our culture," Matriarch Nephi reassured. "Rui Quarrier Silas Kandria. That is a splendid name. If only your first name was longer than two syllables. If I were Miriam, I would have chosen something