The Martial Unity

The latest battle between the Martial Union and the K'ulnen Tribe had reached the ears of all the Martial tribes on Vilun island. The manner in which Rui had downed a promising K'ulnen Martial Artist had impressed many Marital Artists. Some found it to be absurd, while others were shocked. There were some who even wanted to challenge Rui to a fight to test themselves against someone of his caliber.

The battle marked the escalation of the conflict between the Martial Union and the K'ulnen Tribe. Now that not only had the first Squire battle been fought, but Squire blood had also been spilled, the battle would no longer go back to being fought between Martial Apprentices.

Of course, Martial Apprentices would still be involved in the conflict, but their conflict would wrestle around less important avenues and assets of the many reasons that there was friction between the K'ulnen Tribe and the Martial Union.

The more prime reasons such as the war over the hunting and water sources, as well as claims over secondary and extended territories, would now be fought by the Martial Squires of both sides.

The Martial Tribes had their primary territories which were the lands that their villages occupied. However, the Martial Tribes did not tolerate other Martial tribes getting too close to their village. For example, if another Martial tribe tried building a village just a kilometer away from an existing village of another Martial tribe, the latter would most definitely do everything in their power to drive away the intruders.

They were territorial and did not tolerate other entities and groups infringing within their direct domain of influence.

not build their settlement on the Vilun mountain even though there was plenty of space. The Vilun mountain fell within the domain of influence of the G'ak'arkan Tribe and thus the Martial Union's attempt to

of conflict between

is the point of

eyes his audience, which consisted of the Martial

Squire-level conflicts that we've had with the K'ulnen Tribe it

K'ulnen Tribe. Since then, several clashes had occurred featuring more than one Martial Artist. Rui had partaken in

the battlefield rashly. After all, he was targeted far too aggressively and hatefully. The K'ulnen Tribe identified him through his build, not to mention the overpowering aura that he was projecting thanks to the Mind Mask technique. He was still a grade four Martial Squire at the end of the day, maybe grade five at best. Any Martial Squire at a higher grade would be able to fight and eventually overwhelm him. Since the K'ulnen Tribe was fooled, like everybody else, that he was an extremely powerful Martial Artist, they would undoubtedly send especially powerful Martial Squires to take him down if

then he was

meant that he absolutely could not get any close to any of the K'ulnen Martial Squires for more than an instant, otherwise, he might suffer grave damage. In order to be able to do that, he needed to make much greater preparations in advance to close the gap. He spent a greater amount of time analyzing the Martial Squires of the K'ulnen Tribe, sharpening his predictive models. There was no upper limit to the degree

much time, he needed to cut down

the Martial Union had on the K'ulnen tribe. Especially, he scoured through the