The Martial Unity

The Kandrian Empire had timed the application of this strategy quite well. It had used this tactic for the final and the most important territory in the Serevian Dungeon so that the element of surprise would be at the highest for the most important territory to be claimed.

The three nations did not mount a retaliatory force against the Kandrian Empire within the Serevian Dungeon in order to reclaim the core of the Serevian Dungeon.

Not because they chose not to, but because they couldn't, it wasn't viable. Each of the three nations had lost a large sum of assets to the branch attack that Rui had triggered. Their bases in the Serevian Dungeon were simply too lacking in the military and especially Martial Artist assets needed to siege and overrun the fortifications that the Kandrian Empire had erected around the core of the Serevian Dungeon that they had now claimed as Kandrian territory.

Martial Apprentices did not grow on trees. Each nation had a limited number of Martial Apprentices. This naturally meant that each nation had a limited number of Martial Apprentices that could be deployed to the Serevian Dungeon.

The nations couldn't possibly deploy every single Martial Apprentice in their Martial Artist population to the Serevian Dungeon. Each nation had estimates of required Martial Apprentices based on different scenarios and circumstances to fulfill different goals, as well as a thorough analysis on the costs vs benefits of varying degrees of ambition in their Serevian Dungeon endeavors. All of these together created hard limits to the number of Martial Apprentices that they were willing to deploy to the Serevian Dungeon.

In order for the three nations to challenge the Kandrian Empire, they would need to exceed the hard limit of Martial Apprentices that they were willing to deploy in the Serevian Dungeon.

moment, they were unwilling to cross their limits. If they deployed any more Martial Apprentices to the Serevian Dungeon for yet another battle, they would cross the threshold where the net losses incurred would exceed the benefits of the resources extracted from the core

armies without a single casualty and proceeded to claim the territory over which the three

as many people in the local geo-political sphere that encompassed the nations in question gaped at the

issue merely reported that the Kandrian Empire had pushed back three nations over a territorial dispute with some operation that allegedly featured a single

spurred wildly. Of course, there were a large number of people

territory had been colonized by some nation or the other. The nations deployed enough number of defensive Martial

we would expect from a participating Martial Apprentice. We had high expectations of you in the field given your track record and other accomplishments. You not only exceeded those by making a

the Martial Union for aid, and you will find that we are willing to make accommodations and offer assistance that we would not extend to anybody else in your position. We hope to see you go far down your

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do you plan to do from here on out?" Commissioner Feristen asked