The Martial Unity

"That's quite proactive of you," Carl nodded. "I had suspected that you might have read and remembered a bit of it when I read through your profile and saw the Mind Palace technique, but it is quite impressive that you have managed to get through it all."

The man looked quite impressed at Rui.

"It's not all that much, I didn't have much to do, after all," Rui modestly replied.

"If you have gone through it all, then we can begin by going through your thoughts on the G'ak'arkan Tribe," Carl nodded.

Rui paused for a second, gathering his thoughts as he considered it. It was one thing to read through and store all the vast information in his mind palace, and it was another entirely to infer all relevant important information and present it in a neatly tied package. Of course, since this was just a preliminary class in his training and briefing program, it was okay even if he wasn't being as concise as possible.

"The Ga'ak'arkan Tribe possesses a highly diverged culture and sets of values due to their extreme history and circumstances," Rui nodded, beginning by revisiting this basic fact. "This warps their interests greatly as well, albeit not entirely."

Carl gazed at him silently, unwilling to break his train of thought.

are far too many divergences from the norm," Rui stated. "However, surprisingly enough, it is not their greatest interest. The extreme willingness to provoke and engage in conflicts

nodded slowly, acknowledging

Tribe, I was able to get a better understanding of why the G'ak'arkan Tribe is so extremely warmongering with the other tribes of Vilun Island," Rui mentioned. "It isn't entirely clear, perhaps due to linguistic barriers and inaccuracies in translation, but it does seem that they are primarily motivated by a desire to assert supremacy and dominance, as well as battle lust and pride. These three abstract interests are so strong to them that together they even trump their desire to survive! This is why they are so incessantly warmongering. These

Well, follow up with logical conclusion of the premises that

these abstract interests. We can help them achieve dominance on Vilun Island, we can help them

"But?"

that I identified earlier; their pride. They possess an immense amount of pride. Too much to accept our help in

are extremely prideful and have vehemently rejected any aid from us in their eternal conflict with their rivals and enemies. Sometimes I personally cannot help but wonder

could understand

their pride prevents them from accepting the aid of any kind in their conflict with the other Martial tribes. They do not care for our tech and our resources. Currency is utterly meaningless to them. I'm sure you can understand our frustrations. However, despite this, there is one resource that we offered them that they showed some interest in. Can you tell what that

Art techniques,"

makes