The Martial Unity

It couldn't be helped. It was clear that the Shionel Confederation was nothing more than a group of greedy businessmen who were only interested in accumulating more capital, one way or another.

These greedy businessmen were untethered and unhampered by anybody but themselves, as the Shionel Merchant Guild served as the legislative branch of the Shionel government. As such, the legislations in place were highly capitalistic in nature and were highly inviting for any aspiring merchant.

They had signed several treaties and bilaterals with the surrounding sovereign states that gave them significant reductions and cuts in import tax and tariffs, as well as lowered regulations and a

Now, what would such a group of people if a dungeon opened up in their nation?

The answer was obvious.

They would exploit it to their best to make as much money as possible!

Senior Ceeran had already informed him that they were far too weak to monopolize the dungeon, thus they had no choice but to share it.

If they did do that, then they would probably erect a system that would allow them to commercialize the dungeon to the greatest degree possible!

hope those money-grubbing snakes haven't turned their dungeon into the biggest

Rui hoped that he would be able to simply explore a dungeon in peace with his friend and make away with as

were treated as mercenaries whose only goal was to aid with security and intelligence. By contributing to peace and security, they

by the wealth and status that the Shionel Confederation would be providing. It was harder to imagine how they managed to reel in Martial Artists of the upper Realms. They even managed

chase after wealth and status huh?') Rui couldn't help but sigh in disappointment. He had already long learned that Martial Artists were different from those that he would frequently come across in the fictional media of Earth. Movies, anime, manga, and even novels would

and naive bogus in a world where genuinely powerful Martial Art existed. No more than

remind himself that Martial Art was viewed as power. A powerful means to an end. Most Martial Artists did not pursue their Martial Path for the sake of their Martial Path, or out of pure ambition to pursue their Martial Path

were also powerful drivers for people to aspire to pursue Martial power. And it appeared that

for the sake

through the

his suspicions

that essentially served the same purpose that the Martial Union

that the Shionel Guild's Martial Artists were only interested in exploring and plundering the Shionel Dungeon. And the parts of the consumer market for Martial services that

all kinds that were interested in directly procuring a chunk of

Guild allowed for an easy way for Martial Artists to undertake commissions of all sorts from all kinds of people, relating to the