The Martial Unity

Soon enough, the presentation ended just like that. The Martial Masters dispersed, returning to their sects, and Rui was finally left alone with a little bit of peace. He had finished the final deadline that he had left. Thus, he was no longer under any pressure of time.

He could fully dedicate himself to the four domain techniques that he had been working on for quite some time.

Yet by the time he returned home, he found an angry Kane waiting for him.

"Rui!" He glared at him. "I know you're responsible for Princess Rafia wanting to marry me."

Rui burst out laughing as his machinations bore fruit successfully. "Stop laughing!" He complained as Rui wheezed, stumbling around. "I know you're responsible for that!"

"Man…" Rui finally gathered himself. "That's fucking hilarious."

Kane massaged his temples, heaving a stressed sigh. "Fae stopped talking to me ever since that happened."

with those two. Who knows, maybe

he sky-walked away. He didn't want anything more to do with Princess Rafia. Her presence freaked him out, and he would rather stay the hell away from anything that involved her. Even though he wanted nothing to

Raemina, Raijun, Rafia, Ranea,

ones he hadn't met were Prince Raul and Prince Randal. Though Prince Randal had certainly interacted

recalled one incident that the Beggar's Sect and the Martial Union both mentioned in their information packages on Prince

Bill that would have reduced the subsidies to the agricultural industry to redirect funds to the Shionel Dungeon to procure certain esoterics that were necessary in artifacts and products that were commonly used in the farming industry to allow them to naturally sustain themselves as opposed to relying on bailouts from

Prince Raul disapproved of the legislative decision to remove support

He decided to act.

gathered and united in a protest and boycott of all agricultural production. The Kandrian Ruffians relied on their treasury, which, while much lower than the other

of defiance to the Royal Emperor. It could even be

to act. He could not do something as tyrannical as deploying the army to force the farmers to work against that will; that would be absolutely unprecedented and an even greater sin than Prince Raul's treachery. It would forever lose him any semblance of cooperation with the