The Martial Unity

Among the crowd of bigshots that Chairman Deacon had invited were two who were listening in rapt attention.

The diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kandrian Empire, and a rank-four Martial Commissioner from the Martial Union.

The Kandrian Empire was certainly one of the largest foreign stakeholders when it come to the supply of esoteric resources from the Shionel Dungeon. Both the Royal Family and the Martial Union had dispatched a huge number of Martial Squires from the Royal kandrian Army and the internal members of the Union to the Shionel Confederation to obtain a large number of resources for them.

Even though the Martial Union did not have as much of a heavy need for the esoteric resources of the Shionel Dungeon, it was still very important for the Union to maintain a foothold in every new shift in paradigms, in order to maintain their economic and political capital.

Thus, the matter of the Voider had been irksome to the nation and the Martial Union, although neither side had any intention of pursuing the matter aggressively of their own volition. The reason for this was fundamentally due to the large distance between then the Shionel Confederation and the Kandrian Empire. The former was outside of the latter's domain of influence. Although Martial Squires could cross the ten thousand kilometers that separated the two nations, it was still too much of a geopolitical separation for the Martial Union and the Kandrian Empire to throw a fit about getting dominated in the dungeon.

Had the dungeon been within their domain of influence like around the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana or the Kingdom of Violis, they would have taken a much more active and aggressive effort, but due to it being in the Shionel Confederation, they had to more or less make do and mitigate their losses.

the necessary capital, resources, and manpower to the Shionel Confederation just to match the dominant forces in that part of the eastern side of the continent. They simply would not be able to outcompete powerful nations within their home turf, for the same reason that those same

second most powerful company and the largest enemy of the Voider had to say when

didn't allow his expressions to betray his reactions. Although there was a chance that whatever Chairman Deacon seemed to have in mind would pay out,

yet when he went through the intelligence that Chairman Deacon had done onto present them, he narrowed his

raised an eyebrow. ('If that's due to

he was extremely familiar with all the Martial Squires registered with the Martial Union. It was a necessity since he was required to commission Martial

only existing Martial Squire in the Kandrian Empire that had mastered a grade-ten Martial Art technique that would allow him to do exactly what the

even bother finishing his thought as he felt that the probability of it being true was

should look into this when the meeting is

an unassociated, and unpatroned group of Martial Squires putting on a facade when they're not in the dungeon. These, along with other pieces of clues that we have gathered or inferred, gives us enough