ragginovel Chapter 2777 Risky Gambit
Chapter 2777 Risky Gambit
Chapter 2777 Risky Gambit
The Heaven Sect was a generally difficult powerhouse to deal with. For one, they were unapologetically arrogant.
They thought they were the best and the strongest and that there was nobody above them. They thought they knew right, and nobody knew better than them. That was why even if they agreed with his father's plan on paper, they were not inclined to accept it since it had come from someone else.
It was frustrating that there were nations with such an aggressive level of arrogance. It went far above and beyond the normal level of arrogance that he expected from the average Sage-level powerhouse.
"I just hope we get through them without any annoying nonsense."
Unfortunately, he didn't see that happening. The Heaven Sect rarely accepted anything straightforwardly. Rejecting proposals and looking down on people was almost baked in their genes from having lived up in the clouds for this long.
"Living up in the clouds...?" Amare tilted her head.
"You don't know?" the Blood Goddess raised an eyebrow. "The Heaven Sect landmass—or should I say cloud mass?—is in the sky."
"What?! Really?" Amare's eyes lit up with fascination.
"Yes," Rui nodded. "I haven't been there personally, but I've been to similar places in the past on a small scale.
He thought about Master Zeamer's Cloudia.
"But to do it on the scale of a country..." Rui muttered. "That's quite crazy."
"...It's like the opposite of the Nest of Terra then." Amare realized. "They specialized in heaven bending, so they decided to live in it."
"I know, I have some plans to make it more viable," Rui replied. "Don't worry, I'm not suicidal. I will be able to emerge alive. And will have achieved their obedience with it as well."
Amare was clearly unsatisfied with that explanation, but she knew that there was no way that she was going to change his mind. "That's not all, is it?"
Rui smirked. "You know me well. You're right. I have another objective."
He gazed at his hands. "I also want to test how much my limit has been raised ever since I did the blood evolution treatment."
"I knew it," Amare huffed an exasperated sigh. "That obsession with your Martial Art will get you killed one day, you know?"
"Probably." Rui closed his eyes. "But if so, that is a fate that I have embraced from the very start."
He knew what he was getting into from a long time ago, ever since he had resolved himself to be strong after almost being kidnapped at the age of eight. Having narrowly been saved by a disguised Sage Sayfeel, he had resolved to become a Martial Artist despite the perils of the path.
Admittedly, he had only gotten increasingly obsessed with his Martial Path and Project Water since then, doing crazier and crazier things in pursuit of this grand personal ambition.
The peak point arrived when he reached the Master Realm and realized that he couldn't even veer away from the path, even if he wanted to. It was almost as if he was forced to pursue this path by something.
Regardless, he didn't intend to stop consciously or subconsciously.
There was a time when he feared what his death would do to the people he loved, especially his mother. But after she passed away, he didn't really care about the consequences of his death.
"Still, like I said," he remarked. "I don't intend to die, and I've gotten stronger and stronger in this journey, more than I could have ever imagined. The Kandrian Empire was indeed holding me back more than I ever imagined."
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