The Shionel Confederation was more than what Rui had pictured. He had initially thought that he would not be surprised or overwhelmed by what he saw since he lived near the town of Hajin, which was a popular and dense trade and Martial hub in the Kandrian Empire, but he was extremely wrong.

"This is…" Kane murmured, his voice trailing off.

"We haven't even entered the nation yet," Rui's eyes widened.

The rush to enter the Shionel Confederation was absurd. Even outside the walls of the country, there were huge swathes of people trying to enter.

Rui glanced around them, scrutinizing the many people outside. A large chunk of the population seemed like a makeshift flea market. A lot of the market seemed like small-time merchants, making a living out of a small-time business selling a small set of goods or offering some basic manual labor services.

There were also small housing units that offered stay to people who were trying to enter the Shionel Confederation, yet had failed, for one reason or the other.

Rui's eyes narrowed as he spotted a ton of Martial Squires as well, unsurprisingly enough. Their grade wasn't too low, either, based on the sense of pressure and danger that they generated in him.

"I'd read about this… But it's more than I had expected," Rui admitted as he took in the sheer population of people outside of the borders of the nation.

Confederation allow such a large proportion of people to stay outside its borders in this fashion?" Kane frowned. "Isn't

wrong," Rui replied. "It's just that the Shionel Merchant Guild implemented a policy of taxing all these

that these people won't

actually. Not at all." Rui smiled

goods and services there, rather than outside

Rui calmly explained. "These people aren't able to sustain their small-time sales in the Shionel Confederation. They're people who got crushed and shoved out of the nation by more

mean?" Kane raised an

extremely high and is usually enough that most of the supplier market can get a share of it. However, the competition in the Shionel

cut it inside their nation, so they're losers who have no choice but

evaluation,

head back. "Are you sure this is going to work? How can we

the biggest at the moment, any group of Martial Squires that achieves a reasonable amount of success can compete fairly well," Rui explained. "On top of that, we don't just intend to succeed, we intend to dominate. There is absolutely no way that, as long as our plans in the Shionel Dungeon

so," Kane shrugged. "Alright, what

nation for starters," Rui smiled wryly. "We'll have

would require registering with our actual identities, correct?" Kane frowned. "Wouldn't that be too

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