Rui watched with a stunned expression as the bloodied survivors trudged past the blood, gore, and corpses that they left behind, heading deeper and deeper into the Gu once the air cleared.
There had never been a physical barrier stopping them from going deeper in the first place. After all, Rui and Amare did not run into any physical impediment stopping them. And yet, it became clear that the psychological barriers had become so deeply imprinted in them that they simply adhered to it.
And yet, that was not what drew Rui's attention.
"Rui…?" Amare gazed at him with concern.
He was frozen.
His expression was stunned.
His eyes widened as a profound realization dawned on him.
"…The Gu does not need my breakthroughs," a whisper escaped him.
Twenty Seniors out of a hundred Squires.
Out of the group that he had just borne witness to, Rui doubted that he could have broken through many more. At most, he sensed two or three that had died before they broke through.
