The Martial Unity

"Good," Rui narrowed his eyes. "I need to appeal to as many people as I need to for my plan."

"Yes, sir," His secretary nodded knowingly.

The only hiring of which Rui had personally partaken was that of his secretary; he had even chosen a candidate who, while extremely qualified, was not the very best because her background was fully transparent. In the past three months, he had fully vetted her time and time again with Martial Masters and had placed her under permanent surveillance.

This was because he needed her to be aware of his intentions. Otherwise, the probability of someone finding out would be much higher if she was not aware enough to cooperate with him.

Regardless, she wasn't kidding about his speech having made waves. By the time Rui even returned back to his office in the town of Hajin, large developments had already occurred.

"The Martial Union has made a hundred billion gold donation along with the announcement of its official patronage to the Rui Faction," His secretary murmured, shocked.

The report shook Rui.

"What?!" Rui's eyes widened.

A hundred billion gold was an astronomical amount of wealth. For the Martial Union to make that donation as a whole organization and not from individual sects was an incredible start.

"And you said the Martial Union as a whole made that donation and officially announced its support of me?" Rui's eyes widened. "That's…incredible!"

of the Martial Union, he didn't know he would win over the Martial Union

in disbelief, along with the financial statement from the National Bank of Kandria providing a statement that confirmed

Rui murmured in disbelief. "…I guess the Rui Faction is already

seven candidates exceeded his, he could be confident that he had already gained the capital to compete with them

the Martial Union expressed a desire to meet me?" Rui

you along with a

"Huh." Rui frowned.

meet with the candidate they were supporting in order to gain a better mutual understanding of what they wanted

very rarely the case that public statements of support were made with massive donations before

why Rui wasn't sure what the Martial Union's intentions

and a public announcement of support the second that Rui officially declared the commencement of his campaign. That sounded like they simply wanted

murmured. "Nothing

of the Martial Union, Your Highness," His secretary suggested. "It would behoove you

remarked. "I don't know if I'll get to speak to the very highest leaders, but I'm

whole, the sheer scope of the money involved and the stakes at hand were so great that none of his Martial Master friends within the Martial Union, like Master Ceeran or Master Vericita, could

factions possessed the qualifications to represent the Martial Union as a whole to one of its supported princes. Either that or a Martial Sage. A Martial Sage was qualified to represent the Martial Union even

it was true that his power and capacity to impact this nation had increasingly grown on par with them, they undoubtedly primarily judged him as

if he was the youngest and among the most accomplished, he was not qualified;

the fact that he was chosen by the Emperor of