Hecate

During the next month, Ryu did little else but train and cultivate, not that he usually had something else to do anyway. It was likely that his sudden disappearance had already shaken Melody, but due to his status as Throne, the Awoken Moon Sect upper echelon was very much aware that he was still alive.

Under normal circumstances, one might think that Ryu was escaping his duties as Throne, but in practice, only a foolish individual would think this. Firstly, the only 'resources' Ryu took from the Sect were techniques. Considering he didn't take their original copies, the Sect lost nothing. Secondly, in just a month, Ryu's name had spread across the whole of the Outer Ring, both because of his completion of six Fourth Order missions and his slap to the face of the cloaked figures.