The Martial Unity

Rui understood the entirety of what Commissioner Reze was getting at and more with just a single hint.

"So in Chairman Deacon's mind, the way that the Voider has operated, colluding with Guildmaster Bradt and not using any backer's power as a deterrence, is a very strong indication that the Voider is an independent entity that found a winning strategy," Rui continued. "He has plenty of reasons to think that the Voider has zero foreign backings, especially not a bigshot like the Kandrian Martial Union. The Kandrian Martial Union would openly declare the Voider as one of its own to prevent anybody from messing with the Voider. Barring the three other powerhouse nations, nobody has the balls to pick a fight with the Kandrian Martial Union."

"Correct," The man nodded. "Not just that, but the fact that the Martial Union has materially suffered at the expense of the Voider's dominant success is also a strong reason to not doubt the Martial Union's interests and commitment. Chairman Deacon believes that we would never support the Voider while incurring such lackluster success ourselves, the best part is that he is correct, we would never have done such a thing. It is simply highly suboptimal and detrimental to us, and thus not our style, we would never have conceived of such a plan."

He gave Rui a gentle but pointed look.

"I'm not liable. It's not my fault you're unable to keep up," Rui shook his head. "Send stronger Martial Squires next time."

Commissioner Reze laughed in response. "Only someone like you has the capital to rightfully say that. Your absurd success has put even our finest grade-ten Martial Squires to success. Frankly, we're still curious as to how you're able to perform such amazing feats in the Shionel Dungeon. Would you be interested in divulging your techniques, strategies, and tactics to us? We will remunerate you appropriately for such valuable means to traverse the Shionel Dungeon."

"You would not be able to use the most crucial parts of our modus operandi, I promise," Rui replied.

He was also unwilling to sell his winning formula to others even if they could replicate it, it was the means by which he intended to fulfill his objective, and giving to the Martial Union would not only make his job harder, it would make him less valuable since they would be able to replicate his success on a larger scale.

Reze commented, not pursuing it any further. "But that's beside the main point. Regarding the agreement, I

challenge was limited to the Shionel Dungeon and the hurdles that lay within. He had not

could leave that part to

need to have out all the details. I refuse to go in blind. Exactly what proportion of the harvest are

percent of the total haul," Commissioner Reze

the absurd amount that the

demanded such a high amount for some

harvested from the Shionel Dungeon were sold in milligrams because of how expensive and valuable they were. Rui routinely dragged out gigantic boulders of pure esoteric ore deposits. He was earning major shares of what was essentially the equivalent of a major multi-billion dollar industry

the remaining to the Martial Union even if he wanted because he needed it to fund the sheer expenses of his dimensional storage ring which required a huge amount of wealth to sustain. If not for the fact that he was earning gigantic amounts of wealth, he would not be

of it even

worth more than ten percent and I'm sure you know that,"

are demanding so much is that you need these basic services you claim are only

even if he didn't explicitly need them, in comparison, he did not mind if he

I cannot specify. You can think of it as me possessing only fifty percent of what I harvest,