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.

same as the previous one," 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 the

K'ahru was the most surprised out of all of them. "Impossible! Martial Artists of the second

up with a smirk. "They are clearly capable unless you think the scouts were

and forth until N'Kulu

hand, silencing

do, chief?" K'ahru

"Nothing," N'kulu replied straightforwardly.

"Huh?"

N'Kulu calmly recognized. "While this has led to interesting discoveries. That's all

gives their claims of their

just one or two techniques in the second rank. That's far from enough from being

is also correct that this in and of itself is far from enough for possessing the merit to exchange all of our Martial Art in an equal manner,"

perilous. "We will

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

and Rui had been concretely fleshing out the various potential plans for provoking them to trigger

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 Tribe responded to certain kinds of provocations or

Rui murmured as he scoured through the documented history and the second-hand intelligence gathered from

such a thing to have more women to increase the birth rates of their tribe, and the K'ulnen Tribe had dropped all conflicts with the other Martial tribes in a heartbeat and had deployed all of their forces against the

on their hunting territory and airspace are much less severe slights against the tribe in