The Martial Unity

Rui simply stared at him impassively.

Unfortunately, the Divine Doctor was too sharp to be fooled by ambiguity, covering up the fact that the Divine Doctor didn't owe anything to him. It was also unfortunate that he was quite correct. Rui's plan did need him; he had no confidence that Kane alone would be able to incapacitate the source of the manifold by himself.

"You're not entirely correct," Rui chillingly replied. "My plan doesn't need you as much as it needs me. Without me, there is no plan. Without you, however, the plan can not only function but also have the possibility of escape."

This was also undeniable.

The most difficult part of breaking out of the manifold was dealing with the Master-level beast guarding the dungeon.

And Rui was the only possibility of doing that.

This was something that not even the Divine Doctor could deny.

"Be that as it may," the man remarked with a hint of smugness. "The fact that I am required is enough for me to deny any demand in return for breaking out of the manifold. What I offer is more than sufficient service in return for breaking it, for it is something you would rather do with me than without."

This, in turn, was something that Rui had to admit as well. The man was contributing too much for Rui to demand anything in return; he just didn't have the leverage.

"Can't we just threaten him with death?" Kane scratched his head. "Not that I'm suggesting we do that, of course. But fear of death lights a fire under the ass, you know?"

at Kane

a joke. He has an edgy sense of humor," Rui lied to the Divine Doctor, earning a

that Rui didn't even bother addressing it. For one, the Divine

knew that Rui would never do something that stupid and wasteful. Killing him would only lead to extremely negative outcomes for Rui, and letting him out was the

with death was invalid because his death was the death of Rui's future. If Rui actually did make that threat, the

Deborah Silas, the matriarch of the Silas Clan. She possesses a truly godly power of

out one of his trump

action, desperate times called for desperate measures. He was

was unable to hide

lit up with interest. "You are

Rui impassively replied. "You

the Beast Domain. His grandmother required

who or what the Divine Doctor's patient was, he could get his grandmother to apply her astronomical prophetic power to

you ever do decide to search for the ailment that plagues Gaia in the Beast Domain, then you won't need to go through the risky fake fear induction

Empire in the form of the Silas Clan and the Elder Tree. Both of them were assets

to the Divine Doctor, who sought to make a diagnosis of the entire

help much with the immense ambition

of them

Divine Doctor closed his