The Martial Unity

Chapter 2131 Passage of Time

It had been a while since Rui had visited home. The last time he had done so was before he dove into his training three years ago. Of course, his family had long grown used to the fact that his path as a Martial Artist required him to be away from the orphanage for extended periods of time.

Rui was glad that they had shown remarkable understanding, although he still felt guilty in that regard. However, the good news was that he probably wasn't going to need to spend too much time away from the orphanage.

Although perpetual use of the dungeon was something that he had already written off due to a need for exposure to a variety of forces to grow stronger, he didn't mind using it to accelerate his training phases when all he needed was isolation. Thus, unless he spontaneously decided to leave Kandria for extended periods of time, he could be sure that he would be able to spend plenty of time with his family.

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He found himself before the Quarrier Orphanage, taken aback by how much it had changed in just the span of three years. What had once been an extended neighborhood of homes had now grown into something much larger.

[Quarrier Village]

He stared at a board nailed to the top of a tree.

It was startling.

When he had been a kid, there had been a single home, the original Quarrier orphanage. Since then, more than three decades had passed.

The entire landscape had changed, having grown only larger and larger over time. It almost gave him whiplash, leaving him stunned for a moment.

Each generation of the Quarrier Orphanage had been inspired by Lashara, a mother and grandmother to all of them. Many similar orphanages had sprouted across the entire place, forming a community of caretakers who took care of as many kids as they could.

mind sense allowed him to directly sense the emotive

It was pure positivity.

hope, love, and

children far outnumbered the adults. They played with each other in the woods around the orphanages. He couldn't help

have loved what he

Squires descended from the

with beaming smiles. "You finally returned from

"…Yeah,

observed the two Martial Squires

hadn't been remiss

past years, having approached the

showed that they had made steady growth in the Squire Realm

reach the threshold of Senior candidacy soon enough. It made him wonder if he

was centered around the orphanage. That meant for their Martial Drive to be challenged, the orphanage itself would need to be under grave threat, pushing them to require more power

that was never going

it happen. Although he would love to see the two of them break through to the Senior Realm, he was not willing to allow the orphanage to suffer in service of

with his own Martial

of them broke him out of his reverie, drawing his

just like this orphanage. Come, I'm eager

knew had shrunk to a minority. Yet, trudging through the orphanage

drew a lot of attention from everybody