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.

love of a large family. And we deprived you of what we were obligated to give you. It was

deeply, waiting for her

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 comparison to her

too weak back then. Mentally and Martially. Back then, 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 our prophecy at any cost. I only gained enlightenment unto my current

sharpened as he latched onto what appeared to be a clue about

blundered in her emotional state, revealing something

been decades since the death of my daughter;

as the emotions of a

think that I have been deprived of a family, but I

smiled at his words. "That is good to hear. Tell me, what is your

inwardly, maintaining

have passed. Hearing his name is not going to evoke me to

"…Rui Quarrier Kandria."

"It suits you as much as I dislike the last

orphanage where

good name," she

gain the name of Silas," Rui smiled wryly. "I don't know how I feel about a name that is four words

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 like, hmmm, 'Ruina,' for example. In fact, I would suggest you change your name