The Martial Unity

The administrations and staffs of both princes had quibbled about the details for longer than Rui had hoped.

The Raijun Administration had been extremely paranoid that Rui was somehow trapping Raijun with this contract. An extensive amount of time across many days and multiple weeks went into solely vetting the rather straightforward and simple contract despite the fact that it was only two pages long.

Until they had finally confirmed that there was no way that this was a trap, Prince Raijun finally signed the two copies of the contract on the projection.

"I'll have a man deliver one copy to you," Prince Raijun stared at Rui apprehensively.

"Relax, my brother," Rui smirked. "It's just a duel. You get to avoid risking your life yet again."

Prince Raijun ignored the barb as he stared at Rui with sharp eyes. "I don't get it."

The two of them had had a prior cooperative relationship, thus despite the fact that Rui had steamrolled his campaign in the past nine months, he was still able to engage with Rui in a somewhat normal fashion.

"Why are you doing this? What are you hiding?" He stared at Rui with paranoia.

Rui chuckled.

It appeared that his reputation had caused Prince Raijun to assume that there was more to this agreement than met the eye. Perhaps he thought this was part of some brilliant, ingenious scheme that Rui had cooked up.

He was wrong.

But Rui had no intention of correcting him.

"I'm hiding nothing at all," Rui's eyes grew sharper as he gave Prince Raijun a mysterious smile. "This is an entirely ordinary agreement with nothing more under the surface."

Prince Raijun's expression grew more grave and severe.

believe a word

care what

can rest assured about that,"

call, chuckling.

be, Your Highness," Master Zentra heaved

away. "Tell Mikhaila to ensure the preparations for the

Highness," His secretary quickly

disturb me until it's important," Rui remarked calmly. "I intend to spend the

due

negotiate for. The Raijun Administration had sought for months of

he held the advantage

as Rui postured that this was a trivial

want this because anyone with a brain would know that his probability of

Rui. There was no way he could do it in

abruptly presented him with an opportunity to get rid of

that there was no trap in the contract, but

signed, word of it quickly spread across the

of

Prince to want to level the playing field when he had such an overwhelming advantage. The many stakeholders of the Kandrian Throne War were aghast at the

the Martial Masters of the

motivations

the question, was

fought me," Master Krakule gruffly remarked. "There are

Raijun is bound to be able to get at least one of them to serve as

powerful incentives. Especially when their victory would return the Martial Prince to being the strongest competitor for

could make promises that