The Martial Unity

Prince Raijun had made some considerable concessions, even at his own expense, that gave Rui a lot of leverage.

Of course, Rui was not fooled that he had suddenly come to have the prince by the balls if he signed this. The power disparity between them was too large. But it was a token of his good faith.

He was afraid that Rui would not give the training his very best if he felt like he was being unfairly disenfranchised in their agreement. Thus, these terms were quite beneficial to Rui.

While other prominent and powerful Martial Artists had personal staff that took care of making sure such contracts were clean of any traps, Rui didn't have such people.

He didn't need them either, having gone through and memorized Kandrian contract law thoroughly after he made the offer to Prince Raijun.

Surprisingly, the contract did not contain any traps that he was able to see despite his very best efforts to find even the dimmest possibilities of any loopholes that could be exploited against the spirit of the agreement.

Normally, both sides try to get away with as much as they can.

Rui didn't think it was because the Martial Prince was a kind-hearted soul who believed in fairness and justice.

'The Martial Union would never allow a member of the Royal Family to bully a the youngest Senior partner of the Martial Union through contract traps. The factions and sects of the martial Union that were backing him probably had entire divisions go through this agreement to make sure there was no way Prince Raijun could scam me,' Rui mused inwardly.

"These terms and conditions are just fine," Rui nodded after going through them for some time. "Let us go ahead with the officiation."

Rui, who promptly pressed his thumb into it before pressing an impression of his

a historic agreement was officially

grinned.

Rui heaved a sigh.

followed was sparring sessions that lasted hours. Rui refined his predictive model on the prince while using it not to adapt

the inefficiencies in his tempo and pacing, balance,

POW POW POW

the Martial Prince with a barrage of Apprentice-level attacks that were swifter and stronger than his, forcing him into

him to reflexively block, yet

THWACK

THUD

kick unbalanced him,

Marital Prince heaved a sigh, getting up. "It truly

I'm not," Rui replied calmly. "I'm employing the same amount of force and speed that you are capable of; I'm just making better use of it. I

my power due to sub-optimal balance during the

power. The subconscious mind always strives to achieve balance, thus when your are imbalanced, your subconscious mind focuses on that instead of your

one has ever explained it with that much clarity," Prince Raijun remarked with admiration. "You truly

Rui shrugged.

him that it was partially due to the fact that he had studied combat

to attain such a deep understanding of Martial Art. I have only met Martial Masters, and Martial Sages exhibit such profound wisdom.