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.

and the suffering he

and the

The Divine Doctor.

breakthrough to

matter of his soul. He was unable to bring himself to disclose

It was too personal.

close to

to the

the dungeon, the Beast Domain, and returned home," Rui explained. "Sage Sayfeel collected us the moment we returned and had the Divine Doctor heal you immediately after. It's been five days since then. And here you

in the room once Rui finished

STEP…

Emperor of

for the first time in

gaze was fixed on his

golden eyes

Rui talked about the Elder Tree intelligence network, the Divine Doctor agreements, the Mellow Dungeon, and the

these was of

They were priceless assets.

observation told him that

son was hiding

it was deeply personal and had impacted him

It had brought suffering.

had endured as a price

PAT

father pulled him into a

over, Rui." His voice was warm and powerful. "I am

directing a deep gaze into

voice was as grateful as

thought my fate

His tone grew heavier.

my life was