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.

was no saying whether these were going to be the same or

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

valued by the G'ak'arkan Tribe. Thus it was possible that techniques that

was one thing that

Martial Union generally tends to evaluate a technique's value with three parameters," Rui told them. "Power, difficulty, and

an additional parameter: individuality. However, Rui had chosen to discard this variable for 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 little individuality, it usually meant that said technique or something extremely similar already existed

all, that's what individuality stood for. It was a combination of originality and uniqueness. If a technique 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 meant that the technique was probably very common; since it

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 what it already had, G'ak'arkan techniques were techniques that the Martial

getting rid of it, there was less of a chance that the G'ak'arkan Tribe would have an issue with the means of evaluation that

value...?" Senior K'Mala raised an