Book 2: Chapter 76: Distracted by Brilliance

Da Ruis looked back toward the camp where the majority of the Hu Clan currently rested. Fraternizing with lesser beings that would not have been worthy of kissing his boots as an outer court member of such a prestigious clan, much less act high and mighty before the single most powerful being on this dump of a world. The Patriarch was eccentric in ways that no one could understand.

Which fit the bill.

All ancient, extremely dangerous beings were oddly quirky.

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