The Martial Unity

Rui had to admit that Prince Raul's critiques were more than just valid; they were sound. As a Martial Senior, Rui could commit murder and get away with it pretty easily. In fact, the Martial Union essentially used the crimes to justify squeezing out free labor from Martial Artists as a punishment

Martial Artists were not straightforwardly imprisoned for many years or decades. They were sentenced to Martial labor, as dictated by the Martial Union, which would squeeze them of all the value they could during this time until they served their sentence and were free.

On top of that, the sentences for assault and battery were crimes that were treated with a slap on the wrist, with sentences of labor that lasted months at most.

Essentially, the Martial Union used this as a way to gain free Martial labor. The Kandrian government used this as a way to delegate what would be an expensive judiciary process for imprisoning powerful Martial Artists under the standard penal code.

It was not pretty.

However, Martial Artists were a precious and vital resource.

They could not be locked up; it would weaken the Empire twice, once for losing the power that the Martial Artist had to offer and another for having to dedicate the same amount of power needed to ensure that the Martial Artist was actually locked up and didn't escape with force.

Even if the Kandrian Empire could successfully implement this, it would dramatically weaken the nation, which was highly undesirable considering how many enemies the Kandrian Empire had inadvertently made.

This was the dilemma of the Age of Martial Art.

It was one that Prince Raul did not like.

"That is why I wish to abolish the Kandrian Martial Covenant; I will either abolish it or amend it so that Martial Artists will face real, genuine consequences for hurting people. Power does not make the death of a hundred and fifty thousand innocent Kandrian citizens acceptable, not at all, as far as I am concerned."

was

was difficult for

Yet it also wasn't something he was cognizant about on a day-to-day basis, especially in the Kandrian

time, he didn't think highly about Prince Raul's goal of

our Martial Artists and make us more vulnerable to external pressure," Rui shook his head. "It is

do they

background, I would assume you

Kandrian Ruffians have grown to such an extent? It is not because of my kindness but theirs. It is only because people are fundamentally kind that so many have selflessly joined me

raised an eyebrow as he stared at Prince Raul with a

scale of the Kandrian Ruffians surprised Rui.

just asking

will bear my heart," Prince Raul smiled

if you fail?"

the lesser of two evils," Prince Raul replied with a sorrowful tone. "I don't know what the lesser of two

eyes lit up with a little bit of hope. He could

was just incredibly

that didn't mean all the issues

suffering is a civil war?" Rui

We Kandrian Ruffians will protect, feed, and house every person who needs it," Prince Raul heaved a

prevent the flames of war from spreading suffering,"