Chapter 2261 Changes

Chapter 2261 Changes

After all, while Rui's contributions increased the affinity of Martial Artists with the Master Realm, the Gatekeeper's contributions would be a much more fundamental increment across all Realms. After all, all Realms required training, but not all Realms required thought.

Rui himself was quite intrigued by the man's Martial Mind and was curious whether he could benefit from it himself. When it came to training methodologies and things outside of his Martial Art, Rui had no qualms about mooching off of the Gatekeeper's great progress in that regard.

"...And all clear," the Divine Doctor's voice broke him out of his thought. "You're good to go. Try not to die before you help me with my patient."

He headed to leave unceremoniously.

"Wait," Rui stopped him. "How... how is Julian?" Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Julian had been working under him for many years now, studying the alien specimen and regulating the manifold through it.

"Intelligent and competent," the Divine Doctor remarked lightly. "Anything else? My time is priceless."

It was quite a praise coming from the Divine Doctor himself, even if that wasn't what Rui was referring to.

"...No." He heaved a sigh, shaking his head as he watched the man nonchalantly leave the medical ward and head back to his work. He would need to check up on the orphanage village when he was done with more pressing matters. After all, he hadn't seen his family since the Kandrian Empire was declared to be in a state of national emergency, and they were evacuating to the Town of Hajin.

Of course, he had no real reason to be concerned, but that did not mean that he didn't worry about their well-being.

A national emergency and evacuation could be extremely scary for civilians.

"Lead the way," he addressed the four Masters who stood guard for him. "I would rather finish this right away than let it persist."

Rui shook his head lightly. "...I didn't do anything. I just lived my life the way I wanted to."

"And that was enough." His father spoke thoughtfully. "Enough, yet necessary."

He shook his head lightly as he put the thought away. "Regardless, that isn't the reason that I called you here. I wanted to see how you were doing and speak with my son, of course, but also to talk about more pressing and important matters. For example..."

The air grew heavier as his father's tone grew more serious.

"The fact that our enemies now know about your ability to break Martial Artists through and the fact that they've decided to go all-out in eliminating you," Emperor Rael pulled a sheet out among the rubble of documents atop his table, putting the sheet of paper before Rui.

It was a picture of Rui with his name atop, as well as other basic details.

At the bottom, it read in a large font:

[Dead or alive: 10,000,000,000 gold coins.]

Rui's eyes widened with shock. "This..."

"A bounty." Emperor Rael calmly informed him. "The East Panamic Treaty Alliance did not even bother hiding that they were the ones to place the bounty; if anything, they have almost publicly announced it."

Rui stared at his father as if he had just spoken a foreign language. "The what alliance?"

His father heaved a soft sigh. "Sit, I'll briefly go over everything that has happened since the battle with the Sekigahara Confederate."

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