The Martial Unity

While the mutual-aid agreement was rather smoothly settled, it was ultimately low-hanging fruit. It was not one of the more contentious avenues of discourse that Rui would need to delicately mediate.

"With that, the Martial Union's remaining important interests in the partnership with the Silas Clan are their prophetic services," Rui began. "The Silas Clan's remaining interests are longevity potions, which are not strictly required from the Martial Union, and Martial Art resources, including but not limited to techniques, training and growth resources, Squire evolution breakthrough procedures, etc. Is this a fair assessment of the remaining primary interests of both parties?"

The four Martial Sages nodded wordlessly.

"I am not too keen on my clan selling prophetic services," Matriarch Nephi narrowed her eyes. "The prophecy technique drains our lifespan. Frankly, no amount of currency is worth it."

"That is understandable," The Mountain of Fortitude gently nodded. "However, our intelligence sources have indicated that you yourself are not subject to this price. Is that correct?"

"…It is true that I do not suffer from it, yes."

"In that case, we are willing to procure prophetic services from you alone," the Flickering Elder continued. "Naturally, you shall be remunerated on the basis of your status as a Martial Sage and the value of the services you are providing. We hope that you will be open to trading your services. You can rest assured that the rest of the ten of us also engage in such services."

"…I am open to the prospects in return for equally valuable resources."

can offer you enough wealth to

prophecies are strategically game-changing. In return for them, I want a similar supply of longevity

can be arranged for," the Mountain of Fortitude nodded. "It's a reasonable exchange of goods and services. The only question is how we can determine an exchange rate. It is difficult to

monetary cost of production. Thus, its baseline value could not be

Rui had sharply foreseen this problem well ahead of time, having

with the Martial Masters prepared for the event, we can estimate the damage it would have done, damage that would not have been prevented by Matriarch

straightforward and would be complicated and tricky, but it got to the heart of the value of prophecy.

Rui," the Mountain of Fortitude raised an eyebrow. "How would

from Matriarch Nephi's prophecy is powerful. We can cooperate and deliberate to figure out the value. I can have my faction whip up a team dedicated just to representing Matriarch Nephi in

that the Silas Clan had no ability to competently deliberate in this regard due to their lack of conventional education and knowledge. Thus, he was more than willing to put qualified teams in charge to handle each case and ensure that his grandmother was not

considered. "It won't always be easy to come to an agreement on

sure we'll

think that the Martial Union would try to use this to exploit his grandmother;

would simply stop selling her prophetic power to the Martial Union if she was being short-changed. In fact, she might choose to direct her services to other parts of the nation, such as the Kandrian Border Patrol Force or Kandrian Security

extremely undesirable outcome for the Martial Union. They needed to keep Matriarch Nephi happy; otherwise, she