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!"

he would beat his half-brother Raijun in winning over sects and factions of the Martial Union, he didn't

by his secretary in disbelief, along with the financial statement from the National Bank of Kandria providing a

murmured in disbelief. "…I guess

his, he could be confident that he had already gained the capital to compete with

Union expressed a desire to meet me?"

they have merely announced their support with you along with a donation and have remained entirely

"Huh." Rui frowned.

they were supporting in order to gain a better mutual understanding of what they wanted from each

support were made with massive donations before some prior mutual understanding was established between the benefactor and

wasn't sure what the Martial Union's

Rui officially declared the commencement of his campaign. That sounded like they simply wanted to support him unconditionally without any

absurd," Rui murmured. "Nothing

Your Highness," His secretary suggested. "It would behoove you to convey your

don't know if I'll get to speak to the very highest leaders, but I'm sure the highest Martial Masters of the Martial Union will form a

money involved and the stakes at hand were so great that none of his Martial Master friends within the Martial Union, like

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 at

to impact this nation had increasingly grown on par with them, they undoubtedly primarily judged him as a Martial Artist more

so long as he was a Martial Senior, even if he was the youngest and among the most accomplished, he was not qualified; it was difficult for him to earn the personal

did so primarily because of the fact that he