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.

the final plan one last time,"

the sets of pinboards in the conference room while Rui took

Operation is to engage in controlled physical conflicts with the K'ulnen Tribe," Zeyra began. "The constraints

Tribe never dedicates the entirety of 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

constraint that they needed to

then we have perfectly viable replacements that will ensure that we never engage in an all-out war with the K'ulnen Tribe," Stemple continued. "Having established the objective and constraints, we can move on to standard course of actions that we've chosen… The first step is to trigger regular and frequent conflicts at the human infantry level. As we have gone through before, conflicts at these levels, unless at a gigantic scale, simply do not register much in the radars of the leaders

would begin at the human level, before proceeding to escalate. The plan was, to begin with, individual conflicts, before escalating them to group conflicts, and finally bringing in Martial

point on, we suspect that K'ulnen Tribe will most likely not seek to voluntarily escalate the scale of conflict with us, at least not when they're

scale stagnates, and we can demonstrate all of 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 techniques to the warmongering and power-hungry G'ak'arkan Tribe will be made amply clear. Once we have sufficiently demonstrated the

of the K'ulnen Tribe, and plant them in one of the rival Martial tribes, leaving enough trails and evidence leading to them. Once that happens, we predict that the K'ulnen Tribe will forget about us and dedicate

of them paused,

plan had 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, they would be able to figure out the best way to handle the demonstration of their long-range