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 Rui

abide by your concessions when you lose, I don't care what you have in mind," Prince Raijun gritted his teeth, clenching his

rest assured about

the call, chuckling. "He's paranoid as

be, Your Highness," Master Zentra heaved

and walked away. "Tell Mikhaila to ensure the preparations

Highness," His secretary quickly scribbled in

not disturb me until it's important," Rui remarked calmly. "I intend to spend the next

was due in

shortest that the Rui Administration had managed to negotiate for. The Raijun Administration had sought for months

the advantage in the

didn't and couldn't know how 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 always hold the advantage

pretend he didn't want this because anyone with a brain would know that his probability of victory was much higher, even with short notice than if Rui canceled the

Rui. There was no way he could do it in the Kandrian Throne

an opportunity to

had reassured him that there was no trap in

signed, word of it quickly spread across the highest

who heard of it were

he had such an overwhelming advantage. The many

Masters of the Kandrian

understood his motivations better than normal

the question, was

fought me," Master Krakule gruffly remarked.

Martial Seniors in Kandria. Prince Raijun is bound to be able to get at least one

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

could make promises that included benefits after he