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

don't care what you have in mind," Prince Raijun

will; you can rest assured about that," Rui

chuckling.

be, Your Highness," Master Zentra heaved a

and walked away. "Tell Mikhaila to ensure the

His secretary quickly scribbled

calmly. "I intend

was due in

to negotiate for. The Raijun Administration had sought for months of time for scouting a fighter, but Rui

held the advantage in the

much Rui cared to save time. As long as Rui postured that this was a trivial event and was willing to cancel at any time, he would

wanted this. There was no point in trying to pretend he didn't want this because anyone with a brain would know that his

Rui. There was

didn't understand why Rui abruptly presented him with an opportunity to get rid of

him that there was no trap in the contract, but he found that hard

it quickly spread across the highest

of it were beyond

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 Kandrian Empire were the least

they understood his motivations better than normal

it begged the question, was his

he's become since he fought me," Master Krakule gruffly remarked. "There are

Raijun is bound to be able to get at least

had the power to attract all of them with powerful incentives. Especially when their victory would return the Martial

could make promises that included benefits after he became