The Martial Unity

"Fine," Rui sighed. "I accept the deal."

He didn't have much leverage beyond that. Regardless, he knew that six billion Shionel gold coins were not trivial, even for the Martial Union. The resulting protection wouldn't be trivial, either. He did not think that anybody would be willing to go as far as to surpass the limits of the protection that he had bought for his family.

After all, one would need to go as far as deploying Martial Masters to overcome the protection that Rui had purchased for ten years. He knew for a fact that nobody was going to do that.

Even a larger country with a population of more than a hundred million people like the Kandrian Empire had less than a hundred Martial Masters. They were nothing short of strategic national war assets and would not be deployed unless the circumstances truly demanded them with genuinely important stakes.

In fact, in truth, even Senior-level protection was generally overkill. Each Martial Senior was a precious tactical weapon and would not be deployed so easily. If anybody did want to harm his family, Martial Apprentices, and Martial Squires would be the limit that any force would be willing to dedicate to the matter. It was absolutely insane to send mighty Martial Seniors who had limited time on missions as trivial as kidnapping a bunch of commoners living in the middle of nowhere outside a town. It was a horrible allocation of Martial Artist resources.

The only reason Rui had purchased Senior level protection was that he did not trust Chairman Deacon to be in a rational state of mind to realize that deploying Martial Seniors was insane. His hatred for Rui prior to recent events had already been quite high, but still within rational limits. However, he assumed that Deacon had learned that he had killed his son, and thus could imagine the sheer venomous intensity with which he hated Rui.

to capture or at least kill his family. It was purely due to that that he was willing to go as far as to purchase Senior-level protection for

heading straight down toward them had any chance of harming them! This was an extraordinarily extravagant

on top of subjecting them to risk of harm due to his incompetence was letting them know the extent of it. Not only would it thoroughly disrupt their lives, it would needlessly cause them immense emotional distress when there truly was nothing he could do about

Senior," Senior Reze explained once Rui had handed over the statement. "They have already arrived at the Quarrier Orphanage and

sigh of relief as he felt a burden lift off his shoulders, before turning back to Commissioner Reze. "And this contract

you have purchased the highest level of assurance that the Martial Union can offer in that regard," Commissioner Reze nodded. "Now then, are

Rui sighed. "Chairman Deacon has learned of my

demeanor grew more serious. "And how

not important," Rui shook

Reze considered his words before falling into deep thought. "Squire Quarrier, I strongly urge you

the offer of protection in exchange for subordination, than ever. He truly did not want to live that way and was willing

wasn't entirely surprised. Rui had already expressed refusal before, and as a Martial Artist, he could be expected to