While Rui himself also had the Eye of Prophecy, he didn’t want to spend his days becoming a fortune teller, abusing the technique. Matriarch Nephi and the Silas Clan were more comfortable with abusing the technique since their entire Martial Art tended to revolve around it.
Not so for Rui.
"I will be sure to bring him to justice as soon as possible, but you must understand that this will likely take a long ti," Rui explained. "If he has taken refuge with the tekvores, then there’s virtually no way for to hunt him down in their stronghold. Even for , going there alone will be suicide. And waging an active war against the tekvores is not very desirable at the mont. We will be on the defensive for a long ti."
"I am willing to wait," Matriarch Nephi’s cold voice was resolute. "Bring Ieyasu’s head, and my services will return. Else, I will happily watch the downfall of the Kandrian Empire and the Panama Continent. Why should I care for a nation that doesn’t care to enforce the justice it claims to protect for us?"
Rui heaved a resigned sigh.
He had underestimated just how furious his grandmother was at what he had done.
Understandably so, of course.
She had spent decades protecting her clan as a Martial Master and eventually as a Martial Sage.
The people who had passed away in his attack were most likely extrely dear Martial Masters to her and people she had invested a lot of ti and energy into training.
To see them perish by a madman she had warned was not reliable, only for people to tell her that nothing could be done about it imdiately was simply too much for her too accept.
Thus, she leverage her value to get people to make haste.
And it worked.
"I will start working on it imdiately," Rui promised. "As long as you are willing to wait, I promise I will get it done."
She nodded curtly. "Ensure that you do not slack off on this matter. Now go, I will begin deploying my prophecy to find him. I will relay the information to you after I’m done."
"Very well grandmother," Rui got up with a knowing expression. "Goodbye then."
Just before he could leave the cottage—
"One more thing."
His grandmother called out to him.
Rui paused, turning around to gaze at his grandmother with a raised eyebrow.
"Please conduct a round of breakthroughs on the Silas Clan," she requested him with a softer tone. "We will need to recuperate our losses and you are the most equipped to help with that."
Rui smiled wryly. "My services don’t co for free, you know?"
"Not even to family?" She raised an eyebrow. "We are your blood. I am your grandmother."
"That is correct," Rui acknowledged with a calm tone. "However, you didn’t give the Eye of Prophecy for free either. You were the one who told that familial aid goes both ways, weren’t you?"
She grumbled with grudging respect. "What do you want, my cheeky grandson?"
"I need nothing from the Silas Clan or you," Rui remarked. "In exchange for regular breakthroughs, I want you to offer your service to the Kandrian Empire regularly."
She snorted with a hint of amused irritation.
"You remind of your father too much sotis."
Rui smiled. "I’ll take that as a complint. What do you say, grandma? We have a deal."
She nodded with a hint of resignation. "Very well. However..."
She narrowed her eyes. "Do not forget your oath and your commitnt."
The air grew heavy at those words.
She was unwilling to let go of the Ieyasu matter, no matter what. He suspected that this would beco the most dominant topic in all their future conversations from now until the day Tokugawa Ieyasu was dead.
"I have no intention of reneging on my promise."
Rui’s tone was clear.
"Tokugawa Ieyasu will die."
His voice was certain.
She nodded with a satisfied expression. "Good. Now go with the blessings of the Silas Clan."
Rui nodded. "Goodbye, grandmother."
He departed from the cottage, rising into the air, preparing himself to conduct a breakthrough to the entire clan.
"Hell, I might as well make it the entire empire."
He rose even higher, reaching clouds, before shrugging once more.
"I might as well make it the entire continent again."
It had been eleven years since he blessed the entire continent with breakthroughs.
It was long overdue for another wave of breakthroughs of Martial Artists who were on the very verge of breaking through to a higher Realm.
He rose higher and higher, reaching extraordinary heights above sea level.
So much so that he could behold the true world.
The curvature of the horizon had lessened considerably as the size of the world, of the true world, had grown much larger than it was inside the manifold. He could behold the faraway hazy edges of the six continents as well as the countless islands that revolved around them and in between them and the Panama Continent.
He closed his eyes as he activated his Realms of power.
RUMBLE!!!
The world shook as his Martial Heart, Mind, and Soul revved to full power.
A boundless tsunami of Water erged from the very depths of his being as he diluted the power of his Martial Embodint with the help of Embodint Firewall, ensuring he didn’t inadvertently wipe out life across the eastern side of the continent.
When his eyes opened, the blood-red glow of gamind lingered in their depths.
A single whisper escaped him.
"Omni-Apotheosis."
RUMBLE!!!!!
The world shook.
It shook as countless breakthroughs began spreading across the entire continent.
It shook as the blessings of the Dawnbringer graced the troubled civilization of the human species.
Not just the human species.
Far away in the outskirts of Quarrier Town in the forests of the Mantian Region of the Kandrian Empire sat a little girl.
Her hair and eyes were red.
They were as red as the blood that hovered before her.
Her expression lit up as her red eyes shone with power.
A single remark escaped her.
"Blood is the Path."
A surge of power erged from within her as she broke through.
She broke through to a new Realm of power.
A new Realm of power unlike anything the world had ever seen before.
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