Chapter 1523 Hopeful
He turned to the carriage.
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He had already deactivated his Martial Heart, yet he could feel his heart beating harder than it ever had before.
He was finally here.
After nearly eight years, he had finally reached this point. He almost couldn't believe it. He had dreams about this moment more times than he could count.
He took off his mask, tossing it away.
"Huff..." He took a deep breath, before forcing open the carriage door and surging in with his hand stretched out, his arms reaching out.
CLASP!
He caught a hand.
A hand that held a detonator to a bomb.
A bomb in a man.
"Not so fast..." Rui whispered. "Deacon Vernes..."
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His expression crumpled with rage. Fury had turned his eyes bloodshot red. His nails drew blood from how hard his fists were clenched. He looked older than Rui had realized with Riemannian Echo. His skin had grown paler and aged. His hair had greyed significantly in the many years since their last meeting, leaning more towards salt than pepper.
"Time hasn't been kind to you, has it?" It was spontaneous, yet he had already uttered it before he realized it. He didn't know what to say.
Or rather, he had too much to say; he didn't know what not to say.
Yet Rui was not satisfied with just that.
He stepped outside of the carriage, taking one last look at Chairman Deacon's living corpse, before activating his Martial Heart and taking off.
In just a second, he was more than ten kilometers away. He turned around inhaling deeply.
THWOOM!
He fired a single sound bullet, annihilating the carriage, and preparing himself.
For two seconds, nothing happened.
Yet when it arrived, it arrived at a speed that beggared Rui's mind. BOOOOOM!!!!!
An eruption of raw power that exceeded anything else he had ever come across blinded him. It was as though a fragment of the Sun had descended upon this world.
RUMBLE!!!
The world around him shook, unlike anything he had ever seen before.
WHOOOOOOOOSH!!!
A tremendous gust of wind and shockwave, the likes of which Rui could hardly believe, emerged as a result of the titanic power of the explosion. THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!
Rui defended himself with a tier-five Transverse Resonance clashing with the portion of the shockwave that was going to crash into Rui.
It took a minute to subside.
The crater left behind was enormous, large enough to fill a fragment of the Shionel Dungeon.
"This is supposed to be quasi-Master level..." Rui muttered. "Sheesh."
It was a shame that Rui could not afford to admire the destructive power of the bomb. Such an enormous explosion would not go unnoticed, and would certainly not be treated normally. There was a good chance that a Martial Master would be deployed within an hour at the very most.
"Time to get the hell out of here," Rui drank some potent potions, restoring his stamina as he activated Neo Godspeed and Greater Phantomind Void, racing off with Gale Force Breathing and Outer Convergence at an extreme speed that far surpassed his conventional limits. By the time the initial deployments arrived, he would be thousands of kilometers away. The assassination had not been as clean as he hoped, considering the eye-drawing explosion, but it was the best he could do with what he had at the time.
A long chapter of his life had finally come to an end, and a new chapter of his life was to begin.
As Rui raced away, a small smile emerged on his face as he felt more hopeful for the future than he had in the past eight years.
