The Martial Unity

"Sir, I think I may have found the perfect candidate," Stemple announced, exhausted. "The K'ulnen Tribe. A Martial tribe centered around close-quarters combat, mostly focusing on striking. They have a warmongering culture, as expected. And they are very touchy about their hunting territory. They are a good distance away with no other Martial Tribe territory butting in."

"Hm…" Rui considered the suggestion.

The diplomatic team's eyes lit up at this sight.

"You might actually be right," Rui murmured. "Furthermore, one of the Martial Tribes that they are in conflict with at the moment is the G'ak'arkan Tribe. It's a very direct measure of the performance of our techniques. There is no clearer perspective to offer them."

"Then…" Stemple peered at Rui with hope.

"Everybody double-checks everybody's work, make sure we have not missed anything," Rui announced. "I'll go through it myself as well."

The diplomatic team spent an entire week making sure there was nothing wrong at all.

While the diplomats of the Martial Union were fleshing out their plans, the G'ak'arkan Tribe had their own things to consider.

"Sir, we received reports from one of our scouts regarding one of their hunting sessions," K'Mala patiently explained to the chieftain of her tribe.

"And…" N'kulu asked, raising an eyebrow.

K'Mala sighed with a hint of admiration. "Their techniques allow them to strike down Dusk Eagles with a single attack, all while on the ground, never having sky-walked into the air. These were all from Martial Artists of

Martial Artists of the second rank should not be able

K'Mala followed up with a smirk. "They are clearly

bickered back and

hand,

should we do,

"Nothing," N'kulu replied straightforwardly.

"Huh?"

simply hunting game within their territory," N'Kulu calmly recognized. "While this has led to interesting discoveries.

of their own techniques

That's far from enough from

you're correct in saying their claims of their own prowess are more credible, however, K'ahru is also correct that this in and of itself is far from enough for possessing the merit to exchange all of our Martial

eyes grew narrower as his aura grew more perilous. "We will destroy

it was constructed. The Martial Union, on the other hand, ironically didn't have any time or leeway for the G'ak'arkan Tribe at

and Rui had been concretely fleshing out the various potential plans

Martial Union could show, by looking at the responses to such aggression displayed by other Martial tribes to their target the K'ulnen Tribe. By looking at how vehemently the G'ak'arkan

through the documented history and the second-hand intelligence

the K'ulnen Tribe had dropped all conflicts with the other Martial

are much less severe