Heavy Responsibility

Rui narrowed his eyes at that comment but didn't retort.

He would be splitting hairs.

Rui didn't regard himself as otherworldly, but it was true that his power and knowledge were otherworldly.

Close enough.

"It's funny how life works," the Martial Transcendent remarked with a thoughtful tone. "I truly didn't expect that you would have genuinely emerged from another world. I did not expect that you would live up to the prophecy so perfectly. My experiment is a perfect success, wouldn't you agree, Lord Virodhabhasa?"

Rui scowled at being addressed that way.

Yet, this time, he didn't object.

The Martial Transcendent's previous words had struck a chord with him. 

Project Water was the Antithesis' power.

In other words, he was essentially aiming to become Lord Virodhabhasa.

Thus, rejecting that title felt like he was rejecting Project Water itself.