The Martial Unity

"Martial Sects?" Rui tilted his head in confusion.

What were those? Certainly not something he was familiar with.

"Hmm." Headmaster Aronian nodded. "Well, take a seat. This might take a while to explain."

Rui sat down opposite to Headmaster Aronian, waiting for him to explain.

"The Martial Union is a commercial organization; this is one of its core functions." The headmaster revised. "There is an enormous market for Martial services from countless consumers and clienteles willing to pay for hiring Martial Artists for various services. The Martial Union serves as liaison between these consumers and the Martial Artists themselves, allowing for an incredibly smooth and regulated exchange of commissions and Martial services between the two sides."

Rui nodded, being quite familiar with the way the Martial Union functioned.

"As you know the Martial Union takes a fifty-percent cut of Martial commissions." Headmaster Aronian. "The reason for it being entitled half of the commission is because the services it provides to Martial Artists and clienteles and consumer is indispensable. Without the Martial Union, there would be no avenue for Martial Artists to easily be able to easily access countless commissions that the Martial Union receives, processes, stores and organizes in an extremely user-friendly manner. This would be utterly impossible without a highly bureaucratic organization handling the immense documentation processing as quickly and smoothly as the Martial Union does. Furthermore, the intelligence and difficulty grades that are also indispensable to Martial Artists all require immense amount of funding."

able to access the commissions from clienteles and consumers of Martial services, there would be no extensive way for either side to contact the other. Furthermore, although not perfect, the intelligence and difficulty grade evaluations of the Martial Union were extremely useful, it minimized risk and maximized efficiency. Rui did not think that the Martial Union taking a hefty cut was particularly unfair, the services it was offering in

hefty cut from all commissions inevitably means that the Martial Union accumulates an enormous sum of money

"Paying the work and labour force of the Martial Union, the many staff members and the many other employees the Martial Union has hired. I imagine a sizable chunk of funds goes into the maintenance and

than you can possibly imagine, no doubt more than half of all funds are

continued. "What do we do with the remaining

finally getting around to the point

there were a number of obvious answers, he just

side businesses? or perhaps we primarily invest those funds in territorial expansion?" He paused, throwing Rui an inquisitive look. "Do Martial

didn't need to even think about this answer.

"Martial Artists are generally not money mongers. We respect one thing between

No, without it they were even worse. A Martial Artist without power was incompetent fool unworthy of the title

"Money cannot buy everything,

asked. This made sense. The Martial Union was fundamentally drive by Martial Artists,