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.

uncertainty radiated from those who

as

move Kandria

it was

Di Kandria." A powerful voice

progress that the Kandrian Emperor

It was Prince Raijun.

glanced at Prince Raijun with

glared at him, waiting

the Squire Realm was one of great surprise to me. I was now aware that there was a way to overcome the fact that you've never fought a real battle in your entire life as

stirred at

that the Emperor was looking at him even though his

being humiliated before all the

those who bear my blood." The Kandrian Emperor's tone grew relaxed. "Let us speak with each other as the family that we are. Let us indulge in open dialogue before the subjects of Kandria.

planted the seeds of doubt with his powerful words earlier. Hammering the same point over and over redundantly would not help his

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

by freely allowing not just Raijun but also all other royals to speak openly, he maintained the momentum he had built, conveying unerring

only then that Rui realized that the sheer mastery over communication that the Emperor of Harmony possessed was far greater than that of

he had demonstrated a profound ability to move people with

truly was what Prince Raul

Majesty…" Prince Raijun's eyes narrowed. "Your words betray cowardice. Yes, civil war is bad. Yet, it is inevitable. Conflicts of ambition and greed are inevitable. Greed and ambition are the fuel of human civilization. Would you have us cripple human civilization in a dovish attempt

era long before the Age of

attempted to associate the negative connotations

attempt. He did not possess even a fraction of the sophistication and mastery of his father's oration and