He retreated to a simple inn in one of the more palatable nations in the Saiful Region. He didn't want to spend any extra time in the Derimont Bazaar that he didn't need to, after all.
He also had some reading to do, with him were documents that he needed to read fully, they featured a lot of places where he, as a Senior could grow stronger.
He had specifically asked Guildmaster Bradt for places that could help Martial Squires go, most of those places were now irrelevant to him since he was a Martial Senior.
Furthermore, unlike before, he didn't just want to head to random places and improve random parameters, he had specific goals in mind. Mental techniques, assassination techniques, and techniques based on primordial seed. These were his goals.
The issue was that there weren't too many avenues to train those the same way there were for more foundational fields like offense, defense, and maneuvering.
There were absolutely no places to train primordial seed techniques since such techniques did not even exist. He needed to familiarize himself with primordial seed, and then develop a framework around it. This was why he first needed information on it, and then samples of the substance just to begin the process of experimentation.
Mental techniques and assassination techniques on the other hand were a lot more prevalent, but still much less so than the primary fields of combat. There were almost no equivalents to Thundering Valley or the Umiana Trench for mental and assassination techniques.
What there were, however, were powerful Martial Artists who were known for accepting Martial Artists of the Lower Realms as disciples. Whether out of generosity or out of principle, they aided and guided Martial Artists of the lower Realms in fields that they had mastered.
Rui was not strictly averse to seeking their help. He disdained relying on others when it came to the core of his Martial Art, but he didn't hold such strict principles when it came to aspects of his Martial Ar that were not a part of the core of his Martial Art.
He had refused Master Deivon's offer to help him with the Metabody System precisely for this reason, it was too important to the core of his Martial Art; the VOID algorithm and hence it was something that he had to handle by himself.
However, he looked forward to getting some guidance from powerful Martial Artists of the Upper Realms when it came to mental or assassination techniques. Naturally, he still intended to create his own techniques, but in order to create techniques he needed the appropriate building blocks.
That was where these mentors or guides could help him out, providing him a foundation to create a powerful mental technique with.
He glanced through the various reports and profiles that the Beggar's Sect had neatly organized for him.
[Master Zeamer Ger-Vil]
Rui's eyebrows rose as he came across an interesting profile. According to the available intelligence, Master Zeamer Ger-Vil was a renowned Master of mental techniques. He was known more commonly as the Hypnomaster, a master of hypnotic techniques of all sorts. Getting accepted as a disciple by him was a dream for many, yet it was also an unattainable dream since the man was said to be extremely picky with whom he accepted.
According to the information provided by the Beggar's Sect, he had no students under him at the moment, finding the entire crowd of applicants to be unworthy. The last student was said to be a Martial Squire and had left his tutelage six years ago.
Rui was quite intrigued by this. He had known another Master who was also a master of hypnotic techniques; Master Carian. His Heavenly Pathos technique had put Rui in an illusion that even he was unable to break out of easily. This was despite Rui's powerful mind and symbiote.
Rui had grown intrigued by the potential he had in this field.
He just knew that he was truly capable of wonders now that he had finally finished solidifying the foundations of his Martial Art and could dedicate more energy to esoteric fields.
[Master Reina Cara]
Known as the Silent Shadow, she was said to be one of the most notorious assassins in the Martial World, having been extremely active for almost two centuries before finally stepping away from the world.
However, even when she retired from the pinnacle of the assassination world, she still decided to pass on her skills and experience, having given rise to many feared killers in the world.
However, she had extremely high standards for whom she accepted as a disciple. It was said that only the most driven and talented Martial Artists were worthy of her consideration.
Rui was determined to learn as much from them as he could from them, the sheer wealth of experience and mastery of their respective fields they had were far better than anything he could possibly get from techniques he purchased from the Beggar's Sect.
As for the Primordial Seed, the Beggar's Sect supplied him with a decent amount of information to start with. He would gain access to more once he completed the initial commission payment for them.
He was fine with that arrangement. Ever since he learned that research into the substance required the aid of Martial Masters or even Martial Sages, he knew that getting his hands on it as a Martial Senior was not going to be easy at all.
Though he probably could have exchanged the favor he got as Virodha Champion for full access to the research, he didn't have the opportunity to do so for obvious reasons.
Regardless, the information provided by the Beggar's Sect gave him several directions to go in for the next phase of his voyage. He would explore these various options in time, growing stronger as he did while simultaneously fulfilling his commission payment to gain the information he needed.
Once he grew strong enough in his travels as a Martial Senior and completed his commission payment, it would finally be time to eliminate Chairman Deacon once and for all.
