The Martial Unity

"We're not questioning your power, Your Highness," One of his advisors carefully remarked. "However, you are grade-thirteen Martial Senior, are you not? While your growth to the Senior Realm has been nothing short of the quickest and most prodigious, there are some powerful Martial Seniors who have spent centuries in the Senior Realm and are of a higher grade than you."

Rui smirked. "Your concerns are understandable, but leave the matter of the duel to me."

His advisors stared at him with fear and apprehension.

"Prepare the contract, contact Prince Raijun, and arrange a meeting with him," Rui replied, getting up. "Meeting concluded."

He left the office with his Martial Master bodyguards.

"If you have something to say, say it," Rui chuckled. "Your stared are heavy."

"Sorry," Master Ceeran remarked. "I didn't mean to."

"We're just surprised that you're acting uncharacteristically impulsively," Master Zentra calmly remarked.

"…You're not wrong," Rui heaved a sigh. "I suppose I'm just happy that I found a Martial solution to this problem."

Rui closed his eyes. "I'm a Martial Artist, after all, not a politician. The greater the number of problems better solved with my Martial Art, the happier I am. It makes me feel more…fulfilled."

One of the frustrating things about the Kandrian Throne War was that it was too high and powerful for him to influence with his own Martial Art. While techniques like the Hungry Pain technique could impact the Empire as a whole, it was not as though his personal power as a high-grade Martial Senior could impact the Kandrian Throne War.

Thus, he was forced to resort to solving his problems through ingenious schemes and sharp politics, but he didn't find satisfaction in this manner of accomplishing things.

The feeling of winning a fight to solve a problem with power obtained after years of hard work was a triumphant satisfaction that no amount of machination could fulfill. That was why he looked forward to the prospect of dueling his way to the throne.

It sounded much more fulfilling than anything else.

to getting what he needed without compromise and as quickly

"But can you win?"

Ceeran returned his attention to the consequences

Rui closed his eyes. "I am the strongest when I have

Masters were familiar enough with his

new technique that I'm working on…it's not perfect, but it should still be useful

such that he could use it in combat viably. Although he had drastically reduced the operation time of the technique by reducing the target scope from everything to just his target and

he could use it before the

the battle even began. If his target was someone that he could find easily, he could shadow them and build a predictive model

found it difficult to conceive his loss. He had always been able to output incredibly

remains

long before the Rui Administration had finalized the details of the little Martial duel, and had managed to arrange a meeting with the

Rui nonchalantly remarked as he

a projection of Raijun and

me face to face?"

him with hostility while Rajak

you two allied," Rui remarked, turning to Rajak. "He killed

visibly strained to

at Rui, but at

helped with plotting my assassination to stop you from reaching the Squire Realm,"

Raijun didn't react to

that despite their many differences, they had managed to agree that Rui could not be allowed to ascend the

you want?" Prince Raijun glared at him. "Why did you

resigned to the fact that his low-effort attempts at causing them to break up had failed. "I need you to

disbelief. "And why in the world would I do

to forfeit my bid to the throne," Rui calmly