The Martial Unity

Lashara smiled at those words, turning to Rui with an affectionate gaze. "…It is my favorite past-time."

Rui's smile was melancholic, for he knew that soon he would be departing from the Kandrian Empire and would not see her for several years to come.

"Then, you'll have to pardon me while I borrow this young man for a brief," Matriarch Nephi got up, withdrawing her hands from Lashara. "We have some important matters to speak about."

Rui waved the dumbfounded Quarrier Orphanage. "I'll be back in an hour or so."

The two of them sky-walked across Kandria toward the Ilvilia Forest, where the Silas Clan was settling.

"You have been blessed," Matriarch Nephi remarked with a profound tone. "That bastard Rael did a good job finding a family for you."

Rui smiled wryly. "Grandmother, when I'm gone…"

"Don't worry," she remarked. "I shall ensure that no harm shall befall the Quarrier Orphanage. Not now, not ever. Rest assured that my power will protect them always.

Rui heaved a deep sigh of relief. "…Thank you."

With that reassurance, Rui could probably stop worrying about the Quarrier Orphanage entirely. With the protection of a prophetic Martial Sage, the Quarrier Orphanage was essentially untouchable.

"Now then," Matriarch Nephi narrowed her eyes. "What did the Martial Sages of the Martial Union say to you?"

remarked. "At the same time, they were deeply interested in winning over the Silas Clan to the Martial Union. Now that the Silas Clan has settled in the Kandrian

that the Martial Union

other options are governmental institutions that require loyalty and some amount of compliance with orders from superiors or the Underworld, where you will then become the enemy of the Martial Union and the

the secret and had reluctantly got her to agree to allow Sage Sayfeel to wipe out his memory from their minds with some hypnosis while she herself agreed

you," she snorted. "We refuse to make enemies inside the nation or swear loyalty and comply. The Martial Union seems like the best place, without

in the Union's Fiscal Committee, which decides the allocation of the Martial Art budget. They are also proposing a mutual

enthuse at that. "We are very much willing to enter

eighty years ago during the Second Great Panamic War," Rui shrugged. "Only a minute proportion of the peak of human civilization, the Sage-level powerhouses, around the Panamic Continent that have the balls to attack us. And frankly, the incentive is

on the power of prophecy. Both classes of Martial Artists were too powerful to be worth sacrificing en masse for

attractive, then,"

want me to provide you with a more detailed report regarding the Martial Union

been a long time since I've read in the continental dialect, and I prefer

"Understandable."

simplified his

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arrived at the Silas settlement in the Ilvilia

it had been, they had made significant progress in building initial

the information you have about the Divine Doctor. I shall fulfill your request to me now that it is clear that you have obtained all the

nodded before proceeding to tell her everything that the information package covered. He also showed her several pictorial representations of data, including a map featuring the Divine Doctor's migration

congest and present her summaries and distilled shreds of information that

this fashion. I wonder if the Silas