The Martial Unity

Bella Hier was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. Her father had moved to Town of Hajin, decades ago in hopes of making it big, and through many years of sustained effort and clever business, he had managed to achieve immense economic success.

The Hier Industries was a premium esoteric material supplier, this trading company acquired high-grade esoteric matter and resold them in manufacturers at remarkably high markups, earning huge profits with each exchange. Its journey to the top of Hajin was textbook execution, it established robust supply chains that minimized logistical and inventory burdens while maximizing supply.

It even managed to grasp retired Martial Artists to permanently join the company, drastically reducing the cost of acquisition of certain high grade esoteric resources that could only be acquired through Martial Artists, which would be quite expensive if done through the Martial Union.

The Hier family grew in wealth and commercial prosperity for quite a long time, even until recently.

Until recently, that was.

When the company began expanding into other esoteric resource industries, aggressively encroaching onto the space of more accomplished companies. It had bitten off more than it could chew, the Lowminers esoteric suppliers was a company that had competed against the Hier family. The entirety of the market of the Town of Hajin and the surrounding lands were the battle ground between these two behemoths.

However, their bitter struggle ended when the Lowminers managed to expand and monopolize certain esoteric markets quicker. The Lowminers managed to eventually to corner and suffocate the Hier family commercially, and eventually had enough capital to buy a huge proportion of the shares of the Hier family through various third-party entities, effectively ripping apart a chunk of its rival from it.

And that is when Bella Hier's life crumbled.

Her father passed away.

('No, he was murdered.') Bella clenched her fists

doubt. Her father was an extremely careful man. The idea that he would clumsily trip to

was beyond her expectations was that her father had long prepared a will, in the event he was to die. He had passed on all of his ownership of

outside the expectation of the Lowminers to some degree. Part of their goal was to cannibalize the remains of

was still alive. She, who had been groomed and

one hand, her father had passed on

other, she bore immense responsibility,

current moment. Inheriting her father's dominant shares of the Hier Industries was effectively putting a target on her back. The Lowminers would come for her without a

the Lowminers had broken into her estate. She immediately when into survival mode

the town of Hajin, if she stayed here, she would

she could, but the problem was that it was not really possible by herself, she would almost certainly be caught. Going to law enforcement wouldn't help, companies with economic

private association in the Kandrian Empire, a local behemoth limited to a single town or two had no influence on it. She would be able to commission

there was a

risky. Because of her sudden departure, and lack of the elaborate preparation she would have ideally liked, she had been unable to move in a discrete manner. She knew it was only a matter of time before the Lowminers narrowed down her

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the door drew her attention. She glanced warily as she heard a muffled dispute

into our establishment violating our and our customer's

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door!" Another gruff voice insisted, ignoring the man's