On top of that, while Kane was an assassin, he did focus on a direct approach that was largely overlapping with frontal combat skills.
These were enough rational grounds to dismiss the value proposition that he had to offer as opposed to the risk that he could bring with him.
However, Rui was unable to bring himself to outright refuse Kane firmly.
He knew that he was part of the reason for Kane's Martial drive. In the past three years since Rui returned to the Kandrian Empire and broke him through to the Senior Realm, Kane had isolated himself in rigorous, long-term training and mission-completion to gain more experience.
He had undoubtedly grown much since he had broken through to the Senior Realm, but from what Rui could see, he had yet to reach the threshold of a high-grade Martial Senior.
