The Martial Unity

"Twenty-one votes out of a hundred and two in favor of defense. This committee allocates 162,164,850,914,382 Martial Credits to the research and development of defensive Martial Art."

"Twenty-two votes out of a hundred and two in favor of maneuvering Martial Art. This committee allocates 169,886,986,672,210 Martial Credits to the research and development of maneuvering Martial Art."

"Twenty votes out of a hundred and two in favor of supplementary Martial Art. Therefore, this committee allocates 154,442,715,156,555 Martial Credits for research and development of supplementary Martial Art."

"And finally, all in favor of miscellaneous Martial Art?" The speaker commenced voting for the final option of the first round.

Rui's arm shot up, as did several others. He saw some Martial Artists carrying weapons raise their arms. As did a symbiotic Martial Master and several other Martial Masters he didn't recognize.

"…Nineteen votes out of a hundred and two in favor for miscellaneous Martial Art." The speaker announced. "Thus, this committee allocates 146,720,579,398,727 Martial Credits to miscellaneous Martial Art."

The screen displayed the five allocations behind them.

Maneuvering had received the highest of them all with twenty-two votes, followed by defense, followed by offense. Yet they were all nigh equal. Supplementary Martial Art received the least, yet that was still an insane amount of money at about one hundred and forty-six Martial Credits.

starting with the various five levels sub-categories within each category, starting with the

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many resources from the others as they could, but after that, they were now at odds with each other for the resources that they had collectively wrung away. The Lightning Sect no longer mattered. It had broken down into smaller constituent sects, like the Wind Sect, which Kane belonged to, the Speed Sect, the Step

voting sessions within maneuvering. He did, however, vote in favor of the Wind Sect for Kane. But

me are the various sub-categories of thought," The

evolution techniques.' Rui scanned his competition, which, frankly,

Strategic maneuvering patterns.

Tactical distant management.

Combat liability evaluation.

biased, but most of these didn't sound

modest number of votes from Martial Masters with some affinity to them. Soon enough, the most important moment of the committee had