The Martial Unity

Chapter 2072 Where Is My Crown?

Rui gazed at his father deeply for a moment.

And then he began.

He began narrating a tale that began seven years ago on the fateful day his father unveiled his true identity to the entire world.

He disclosed everything.

From the very start.

What happened. How he felt. What he thought. And ultimately, what he decided to do.

"…And so I decided that I would not forsake my Martial Path for the throne." His tone grew fierce. "Not now. Not ever. Yet, at the same time, I did not wish to allow the empire to become ravaged by war. A war that would undoubtedly subsume the long lives that my family had cultivated in Kandria. After all the pain that I had put them through from my seven-year exile, I could not bring myself to do that to them."

His father gazed at him silently with melancholic eyes.

"…And so I decided that I would undo the very thing that had caused this mess in the first place," Rui continued as his tone grew heavier. "I would undo the very source of all of this mess. If I could just get your illness healed…"

His father silently listened as Rui bore his heart out for the first time without leaving out even the slightest detail.

He listened as Rui talked about how he built his own faction from nothing, elevating it to the most powerful political faction in the Kandrian Empire.

He listened as his son described his battle with the Gatekeeper, and his victory against the elder Senior and against his brothers, truly attaining everything he needed to claim the throne and all of Kandria for himself.

Yet, it couldn't move Rui.

His father listened as he began his search for the Divine Doctor, approaching the Beggar Sage, the Silas Clan, and the Adventurer's Guild.

His eyes widened as his son described how he managed to reel in the Silas Clan into the Kandrian Empire.

His gaze softened as Rui described his voyage in the Beast Domain.

The Valley of Prisms.

The Forest of Fear.

suffering he endured

Mellow and the

The Divine Doctor.

to

soul. He was unable to bring himself to disclose the identity crisis he had suffered in the Mellow

It was too personal.

to the

close to

lifeform, we left the dungeon, the Beast Domain, and returned home," Rui explained. "Sage Sayfeel collected us the moment we returned and had the Divine Doctor

the room

STEP…

of

first time

his gaze was fixed

eyes

suppress his outburst when Rui talked about the Elder Tree intelligence network, the Divine Doctor agreements, the

was

They were priceless assets.

his keen and sharp observation told him that there

son was hiding

was deeply personal and had

It had brought suffering.

that he had endured as a

PAT

widened as his father pulled him into a

over, Rui." His voice was warm and

go, directing a deep gaze

rich, deep voice was as grateful as it was

my fate

His tone grew heavier.

thought my life