The Martial Unity

Chapter 2676 CIiffhanger

chapter 2676 ciiffhanger

and thus, an additional goal had been added to rui's long voyage.

to find the psycher and shake the truth out of him.

rui didn't care if he was hiding in a sage-level powerhouse. there was no place in the entire continent that would protect him from rui now that he knew that that man was responsible for doing what he did to amare.

"very well then." rui narrowed his eyes. "i look forward to paying him a visit."

"hehehe, and now, for my payment!" the beggar sage's eyes brimmed with curiosity and enthusiasm.

"not quite yet," rui corrected him. "back to my main need for you and the whole reason i sought you."

"tsk, the scriptures of terra, was it?" the beggar sage tutted. "you probably came to me hoping that i knew what it was. unfortunately for you, i don't. there is only one man who knows what it is, and that's the shield of gaia himself. since then, not even the eldest and most powerful sages have been able to find the scriptures of gaia. that being said..."

the beggar grinned. "i can tell you what it isn't. it isn't physically discrete, it isn't natural, and it isn't—"

"isn't esoteric," rui interjected. "i know. i deduced that much myself. what else can you tell me?"

"hah! smartass, are we?" a challenging glint flared in his eyes. "then i can tell that it is abstract and spread across—"

"across the nest of terra," rui's firm voice cut through his again. "it most likely is abstract and information that can be gathered only throughout the nest of terra. i have figured that out by myself."

"...hmph, i suppose you are indeed on a different level compared to the task force that has failed to even get this far in the past hundred years."

"what else, old man?" rui asked once more. "is this all the mighty beggar sage has?"

"hah, do you think i'm susceptible to such paltry manipulation?"

rui smirked. "you were before."

"...i will need to learn the dance of terra?" he muttered. "do i even have the time? no, but there are ways to shorten it, although not ideal. i could potentially try using s—"

"oi! now's not the time to get lost in daydreaming!" the beggar sage's raspy voice snarled. "you can't just get what you want and leave. where's my payment?!"

"ah..." rui emerged from his reverie, turning to him with disinterested eyes. "fine. here's the payment as promised."

badump!

his martial heart and martial mind blazed into power as he directed a powerful hypnosis at the man.

within a minute, he shut it down.

"you bastard!" the beggar sage cursed. "just when you were getting the good part, you cut it off!"

rui smirked, turning away.

"it's called a cliffhanger. it leaves you coming back for more and more, paying more and more in exchange for more and more."

"you're evil!" the beggar sage cried. "how could you stop at just that part, just before the main reveal!"

rui planned on squeezing him forever with cliffhangers. every time he gave him some information, he would make sure to stop just before giving him some more important information. this way, the man would grow mad waiting for the next dose and would be willing to pay higher in return for more.

he could keep getting more and more information from the beggar sage endlessly.

he took one last glance at the raving beggar sage, who started acting like a lunatic, smashing his head against a rock.

"poor is the soul that is left on a cliffhanger, indeed," rui's attention returned back to the task at hand. "now, time to find the scriptures of terra."

and thus, he set out on his new adventure!

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