The Martial Unity

The lower echelons of society generally lacked the information that the highest echelons of society possessed. This was a result of lacking authority to access classified information or lacking means to access information that only came with being rich and powerful. Thus, they were far more lacking in knowledge that was common and basic knowledge amongst the upper echelons.

In the halls of the Shionel Merchant Guild, the situation was mostly clear to all of the Cabinet Merchants. Chairman Deacon was Guildmaster Bradt's greatest rival and had been undergoing massive amounts of growth that allowed him to shake the otherwise rock-solid political stronghold that Guildmaster Bradt had created by securing the interests and benefits of a majority of the voters.

They had absolutely no misconceptions about why the Guildmaster had passed the bill, in hindsight. It was obvious that the passing of the bill had something to do with the anonymous creation and registration of Esosale Suppliers. It was no coincidence that this empty company that he aggressively promoted somehow magically seemed to gain access to huge amounts of resource yields that were then sold to the consumer market and was formed immediately after the bill he passed regarding the changes in protocols for identity registration and verification. There was simply none of them who bought this highly mysterious company that Guildmaster Bradt was aggressively promoting came right after he made it easier for everyone to be connected.

It was clear to the Cabinet Merchants of the Shionel Merchant Guild that Esosale Suppliers was the reason that Guildmaster Bradt had passed that bill. Esosale Suppliers was Guildmaster Bradt's solution to hampering the growth of Chairman Deacon.

thing that was unclear to the Cabinet Merchants

that Esosale Suppliers was created by Guildmaster Bradt who had employed the mysterious force that was able to harvest huge amounts of esoteric yield from the Shionel Dungeon. Others

had not worked out the connection between Esosale Suppliers

them," Professor Farlo continued, after explaining everything, absorbed in his own words. "Although we don't have proof that the Voider, the individual responsible for mysteriously clearing the second floor is actually responsible for the disappearance of esoteric resources on the twelfth floor if Chairman Deacon believes it, then that probably means that he has some information that

a crazy conspiracy theory, but it makes a lot of

not too far from the truth. The truth about Esosale Suppliers is most likely deeper

to hear to the crowd that what they had simply treated as an exciting oddity and mystery was actually a deep political powerplay and conspiracy between the most powerful political leaders fighting for power through the

if I'll be able to sleep at night. To think that the Voider has gone from being a relatively momentary gossip story to potentially being the key to victory

suffered a bad setback with his preliminary Voidhunter operation. But realistically, that doesn't matter. The death of a dozen Martial Squires is barely a sting to such