The Martial Unity

Rui stared at her dumbfounded.

He couldn't believe that she had such an absurdly ambitious dream.

Set off a new age?

An age of sailors?

"With all due respect, Your Highness, that's a pipe dream," Rui heaved a sigh.

"Do you truly believe that, Senior Quarrier?" She stared at him. "An age is defined by the most characteristic trait in that age, and in this era, that is Martial Art. If ambition for the ocean one day drives Kandria, and then it will also eventually impact East Panama. That is how powerful and influential our country is."

Rui heaved a tired sigh. "Your Highness, you are far more extreme than I had imagined or been informed."

"Hah, I have only divulged a greater fraction of my ambition today due to the historic event. However, I do have dreams that I will fulfill as Empress."

ambitions will definitely cripple many and potentially bring this nation to ruin. Do you think

and fear," She firmly pushed back. "Would you rather we grow only when we need to or out of fear, or would you rather we grow out of ambition? Look at you.

argument when he most certainly was driven by ambition and owed his success to his unrelenting drive to fulfill an ambition

concerned, there was a difference between personal and political ambition. Every individual was responsible for themselves and bore the brunt of their own choices, but a nation bore the brunt of

between them. He could keenly tell that whatever rationalization she had cooked up was ad hoc and came after her ambition. Her ambition preceded all of it; she simply formed her political ideology around it to justify it as

really was no arguing with her, which, of course, was obvious. There was nothing he could say that would shake her off

something as uncontroversial on the surface as focusing on the seafaring and maritime industry would end up being so extreme that it was just almost as

Randal and her, he would still

shame that you don't seem receptive to my politics," She nonchalantly remarked. "After all that you did to help me in restraining

very grateful,"

regardless. Though I suppose…I should tell you that I am grateful indeed. However, you made that agreement based on an incomplete understanding of

to the point that Rui

would venture to suspect that you probably will end up finding my political agenda to be the least disagreeable out of all the seven prime candidates," Princess Ranea smirked. "Join me, Rui Quarrier. Your Martial Art. Your talent.

support you, you will do your best to restrain