Kane's eyes widened at those numbers. Of course, he knew that the number of Martial Sages had ballooned over the past thirteen years; he had never actually known the full count of all of them.
This was especially the case when Martial Artists were increasingly spread out across thousands of stars as opposed to being on one planet. Thus the density of Martial Artists had not exploded to such an extent.
He remembered a time roughly eighteen years ago when human civilization had only three hundred Martial Sages. Then the Psyker created his Enlightenment of Self AI model, and five years later, they got their hands on three thousand Martial Sages. Martial Sages only grew more and more ubiquitous, growing like grass until they became extremely ubiquitous.
The same was true for all Realms below.
Breaking through to them was no longer a matter of risk; it was a matter of time and energy.
