The Martial Unity

Rui was glad that he had come thoroughly prepared, for many of the concerns and issues that Senior K'Mala brought up were things that he perhaps wouldn't have been able to confidently provide a solution for. But thanks to having fleshed everything out with the diplomatic team, he could be grateful that they could present a strong first impression.

Well, it wasn't really a strong first impression considering this was far from the first time that the Martial Union or Rui had had an audience with the G'ak'arkan Tribe. But it certainly was the first time that the Martial Union had had a serious and fruitful discussion with the G'ak'arkan Tribe over the trade that the former was proposing. Being able to account for all of the concerns and accommodate them gave the G'ak'arkan Tribe much more confidence that the trade was a good idea.

"How do you propose that we come to an agreement on whether a particular trade is fair or not?" She asked, getting closer and closer to the heart of the trade with her concerns.

The fact that she had already reached the stage where she was most concerned with the fairness of the trades was a good sign, it meant that Rui had probably addressed all of the more fundamental concerns that dealt with the foundations of the trade such as the lack of trust that she wasn't able to poke holes in them at the very moment.

"It is best that we agree upon a general means by which we can evaluate the value of techniques. If we can agree upon that, then it will be possible to ensure a deal is fair to both sides." Rui explained.

Of course, the way Rui framed it was a little different from the way it actually was. For example, both the G'ak'arkan Tribe and the Martial Union had been in possession of Martial Art techniques for a long time. This inevitably meant that both groups had developed their own thoughts on what distinguished valuable techniques from those that weren't particularly of any value.

saying whether these were going

and ease of mastery. These were highly foundational areas that every Martial Artist would undoubtedly

beyond that, things got a little hazy. Things like individuality were not necessarily to be guaranteed to be valued by the G'ak'arkan Tribe. Thus it was possible that techniques that the Martial Union appraised to be high partly because of

one thing that could potentially impede the

to evaluate a technique's value with three

several reasons. For one, the reason this variable was considered when the Martial Union evaluated techniques was that if a Martial Artist in the Kandrian Empire submitted a technique with very

submitted by a Kandrian Martial Artist did not even have a shred of originality or uniqueness, then it meant that this technique was shamelessly copied since it wasn't original, and it also

If a Kandrian Martial Artist submitted a technique without individuality; then it was a cheap knock-off that the Martial Union already possessed. However, that wasn't true for a G'ak'arkan Martial Artist. Even if one of the G'ak'arkan techniques that the Martial Union sought was a cheap knock-off of another G'ak'arkan technique, its value did not decrease since the Martial Union did not possess it. Individuality was a filter to ensure that the Martial Union did not purchase

it, there was less of a chance that the G'ak'arkan Tribe would have

value...?" Senior K'Mala raised