The Martial Unity

At that moment, the net entirety of all Kandrian powers and forces that heard his words faltered.

Many of them had aligned themselves with one of the princes and princesses, excited about the possibility of a ruler that worked for their interests. Excited about a ruler that would warp Kandria to elevate them above all.

Yet, history was a heavy weapon.

When wielded properly, it could break apart any conviction and any emotion.

Rui's eyes widened as he realized the Emperor understood this truth better than anybody else.

His powerful words were armed with the weight of human history.

Not just human history.

His history.

He who quelled the most fierce civil war. He who masterfully intertwined countless opposing forces into a single nation. He who elevated Kandria to the pinnacle of human civilization with the power of harmony.

Yet history alone was not enough.

It needed to be channeled carefully, masterfully, and with immaculate communication, both verbal and nonverbal. It needed to be channeled so that it wove past the greed and ambition of its beholders. It needed to weave past the human condition that drove man to war.

It needed to strike the human heart.

And struck the human heart, he had.

that moment, uncertainty radiated from those who

widened as

of Kandria sought to move Kandria with the weight of history…with the weight of his words

it was not

to address His Majesty Second Emperor Rael Di Kandria." A powerful voice cut through

that the

It was Prince Raijun.

Kandrian Emperor glanced at Prince Raijun with

at him, waiting

pointed interest. "Your breakthrough to the Squire Realm was one of great surprise to me. I was now aware

at his

feel that the Emperor was looking at him even though his eyes were fixed on the Martial

Prince Raijun gritted his teeth at being

us speak with each other as the family that we are. Let us indulge in open dialogue before the subjects of Kandria. Let us truly

doubt with his powerful words earlier. Hammering the same point over and over redundantly would

one that could ruin his impact. It conveyed an inability to engage, perhaps even fear of engaging, crippling his

by freely allowing not just Raijun but also all other royals to speak openly, he maintained the

that the sheer mastery over communication that the Emperor of Harmony possessed was far greater than that of anybody else

demonstrated a profound ability to

Prince Raul

greed are inevitable. Greed and ambition are the fuel of human civilization. Would you have us cripple human civilization in a dovish attempt to prevent its negative consequences? Your way would send us back to the Shadow

Shadow Ages, an era in the five-thousand-year-long history of mankind, was an era long before

negative connotations of

attempt. He did not possess even a fraction of the