The Martial Unity

1555 Agendas

Of the seven of them, only two of them appeared to have their own political ideologies that they genuinely espoused. Princess Raemina with her communist dictatorship ambitions and Prince Raul with his people-first doctrine.

The rest of them appeared to be shilling for the power blocs that backed them up.

For instance, it didn't appear to Rui that Raijun had a strong drive to pursue Martial power. He had become a Martial Apprentice at a remarkable age but then had never proceeded to reach the next Realm.

To Rui, that suggested that whatever his Martial drive was, the power that he possessed as a Martial Apprentice was enough to fulfill it.

Yet he also had the ambition to rule the nation. The only way he could have a strong drive to rule the nation but still be satisfied with the power of an Apprentice was if the reason he pursued his Martial Path was not the Martial power, but something else.

"He most likely became a Martial Apprentice only to have the status of a Martial Artist," Rui realized. "Once he had the status of a Martial Artist, he would gain more trust from other Martial Artists who distrusted normal humans to represent their interests well."

Yet he didn't realize that just becoming a Martial Apprentice was not enough. Martial Apprentices were children within the world of Martial Art, regardless of what their actual age was, they were treated as children on their Martial Path.

Union were the Martial Supremacists. Rui had run into this faction before. Commissioner Derun who had commissioned him to serve as a diplomat to Vilun Island was a part of this faction. She had

the laws of the jungle where the strongest ruled and the weakest cowered and were consumed. Martial Artists running the country usually ended

Martial Prince would make legislations that were highly favorable to the Martial Union and to Martial Artists in general if

of the others of the seven

his thoughts. 'I'm approaching this non-systematically. I need to define what my agendas are. There is no point in thinking about what Prince to support

However, he strongly wished for his family's life to not be disrupted. Some of the princes

Rui realized. 'Whoever ascends to the throne can certainly disrupt my family's life with crazy azy legislation. But

ruler had already accumulated more power than he was capable of fighting back. He was sure that a solid proportion of Martial Seniors, Masters, and Sages had already distributed their support among the

of any of the princes and princesses. What he was confident about was the

watching each of the seven candidates closely. Antagonizing others needlessly was a good way to lose a race of gathering support. It ruined

each of the princes and princesses had no choice but to focus on pleasing others to earn their support, rather than

as Rui did not antagonize them first, the way he did Deacon, then there was little to no cause to worry about his family being

I do need to speak with Julian and make sure that he doesn't antagonize any of the princes and princesses,' Rui made

about long-term priorities. In the long term, he did not want any prince or