The Martial Unity

Months passed before the construction had finally been completed, and the Martial Union settled into its first colony on Vilun Island.

Rui considered holding a big speech in celebration but decided against it at the end of the day.

This was merely part of a mission, and the settlement would be dismantled once they got over. It wasn't as though this would end up being one of the permanent residences of all those who were partaking in this mission and operation.

The settlement plan was already underway, and Rui had already expected that the G'ak'arkan Tribe would have had their eyebrows raised on more than one occasion since the construction of the settlement.

"The hunting… and the security, they're nothing compared to how impactful this next move is going to be," Rui couldn't help but smile when he tried imagining how impactful the victories of the Martial Union would be on the G'ak'arkan Tribe.

The plan was ready. They had scrupulously fleshed out all of the details and accounted for multiple possible routes that it could go down, as well as developing multiple contingencies.

one last time," Rui nodded to

in acknowledgment as they walked up to the sets of

controlled physical conflicts with the K'ulnen Tribe," Zeyra began. "The constraints and conditions on this

its Martial capital towards us. This alone is a complex condition that encompasses several other constraints. This means that we cannot cross any line when casualties or any kind of damage upon their civilian population, particularly the children, elderly, and women. We cannot dedicate the entirety of our Martial capital to each other since they won't settle for anything less than at least matching our effort. We cannot allow their

nodded. Each of these was a constraint that they needed to

we can move on to standard course of actions that we've chosen… The

escalate. The plan was, to begin with, individual conflicts, before escalating them to group conflicts, and finally

one side deploys Martial Apprentices against the other side, we will officially have broken hostilities with the K'ulnen Tribe. From that point on, we suspect that K'ulnen Tribe

the long-range prowess we have at the Apprentice and Squire Realms thoroughly. With a good strategy and the techniques of the Longranger Sect, the extreme value of our

themselves, they are not going to drop hostilities with us easily, making peace with them is highly dubious, thus we have Operation Endline," Zeyra stated, pointing to the final section of the board. "Operation Endline is a covert operation with Squire Kane Arrancar. We abduct some women of the K'ulnen Tribe, and plant them in one of the rival Martial tribes, leaving enough trails and evidence leading to them. Once

of them paused, walking back and

long been fleshed out, but the details of conflicts were outside the expertise of the diplomatic team. Rui had already resolved that he would handle it with the interim captain and the Longranger Sect. Together,