The Martial Unity

"It is disgraceful that a superior Martial Senior like yourself is so unwilling to take your rightful place as leaders of human civilization."

A man sitting opposite Rui in his office remarked with an ugly expression.

"I am willing to ascend leader of the Kandrian Empire," Rui lied. "Why else would I bid for the throne?"

"You're doing it as a member of the royal family! Not as a Martial Artist!" The man barked. "In all of human history, nay, in all species in the world. The strongest rule. It is the natural order. Anything else strains human civilization as we move away from a natural power hierarchy!"

He glared at Rui, uncaring for his royal status. "You care about harmony? The best way to reach harmony is to put people where they naturally belong. The strong at the top and the weak at the bottom. Because human civilization naturally tends to a natural hierarchy of power, this is the most stable and harmonious form of civilization!"

Rui heaved a sigh as the Martial Supremacist lectured him about his ideological doctrine. "Yes, because the civil war that would be triggered the second someone tried to make Kandria a Martial Supremacist nation sounds very harmonious indeed."

His sarcasm was palpable.

"Some amount of chaos and heat is inevitable as society returns from this perverted hierarchy to its natural state!" The man barked. "But once it does, it will be extremely stable and harmonious."

"If by extremely stable, you mean reduced to ruins, then yes, I might actually agree with you," Rui narrowed his eyes. "I don't think you understand how destructive even a single Martial Senior is. The Kandrian Empire has one thousand five hundred such Martial Seniors. A Kandrian civil war will not be a war; it will be an apocalypse."

This was the impact that Martial Art had on human civilizations.

Back on Earth, even in the modern era that Rui had died in, revolts, revolutions, and coup d'etat could and did occur without reducing a nation to rubble. It could and did occur without causing enormous destruction. Oftentimes, they occurred without a single person dying because the overwhelming power of the insurrections quickly seized control, and nothing changed.

This was not the case in the Panama Continent.

Any civil conflict that occurred between powers within a nation almost always involved Martial Artists, who were essentially walking tanks, sentient fighter jets, and living weapons of mass destruction.

Thus, civil conflict in the Panama Continent was exponentially more destructive than on Earth. It would be analogous to governments on Earth deploying nuclear weapons inside their own territory.

allowed," Rui

creation. The destruction of this flawed system of power is necessary for us to

what he heard.

never ascend the throne, Final Prince!" The minister declared, leaving

urge to kill

pressing a button on the communication artifact on his table. "You're telling me that man was the most open-minded high-ranking government official of

his analyst division heaved a sigh. "He was at least willing to visit our headquarters and

"Damn!" Rui cursed.

of those who were considered to be the most open from all three rival factions, and not a single one of them was

his fingers as he sunk

He had seventy-seven supporters.

just

out of the remaining

was willing to join his faction but was bound by a

hardcore, ideologically beholden government officials who didn't listen to reason or incentives. If the minister he spoke to was the most open- minded Martial Supremacist of

as his mind furiously raced

had passed since the five-year deadline he

passed, the probability of him successfully healing his father

hard to find a small potential loophole that they missed," His director of finance suggested in an emergency meeting that Rui had called to deal

could just wage a war against the allied princes' factions, get our hands on Prince Raijun, and force him to

to implement some Martial Supremacist ideals? Maybe then

too unlikely to succeed and not

solution that does not lose me anything while delivering to me the final

government official

could not require a