The Martial Unity

"Regardless, we've gone into the basics of general diplomacy, the uniqueness of the G'ak'arkan Tribe as well as their warped primary interests, how we could negotiate with them based on these warped interests, and finally, the reasons for why those negotiations failed," Carl paused, for a few seconds, inhaling and exhaling deeply. "That brings us to the heart of our talk; your mission. Your goal is to successfully trade techniques with the G'ak'arkan Tribe. Based on the conversations we've had all this while, how would you go about the diplomatic negotiations of the G'ak'arkan Tribe?"

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Rui's eyes wandered as he spent some time considering the question.

It was a difficult question to answer, even for Rui.

"The principle of the negotiation strategy that we have previously employed isn't necessarily wrong... The issue is the execution that has caused previous failures. Specifically, we need to execute our negotiations in a way that leverages their competitiveness and pride in our favor," Rui carefully stated. "Senior Ceeran caused their competitiveness to be riled up against us while wounding their pride with his aggressive insistence on superiority. That needs to be avoided at all costs."

Carl nodded as he waited for Rui to continue.

to engage in physical conflict, and the desire to take pride in all their decisions and actions. These are the three primary interests that we will have

to dominate their enemies is the easiest interest to levy in our favor. The power that our techniques in combination with that

techniques as long as it was handled

did not intend to

them the power they desired to dominate their opponents, he will have already taken a major step toward earning

something we can necessarily directly levy, unfortunately. But the good news is that it cannot work against us as long as we are careful. It will most likely work out to be a neutral variable." Rui noted. "In ideal circumstances, it could work in our favor if they recognize that they can engage in

be leveraged in a direct fashion since it wasn't as though Rui could fabricate new and more native tribes out of thin air for the G'ak'arkan Tribe to fight against. In the worst-case scenario, if their desire to engage in physical conflicts would turn against

one of Rui's

the flip side, if he could create an alluring image of even greater and more successful physical clashes with their enemies, then it could be leveraged as a positive force that would drive the G'ak'arkan Tribe further into cooperating

the trickiest out of all of the three abstract interests of

Their pride caused them to deny military aid from the Martial Union despite possessing a strong desire to defeat and dominate their enemies and rivals. It also caused previous diplomatic endeavors to fail, Rui understood all of this, but it still wasn't clear what exactly might offend their pride in a

he ought to say to manipulate them such that their pride would work in his favor. He was highly intelligent, but he wasn't some mastermind