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

In return for them, I want a similar supply of longevity potions for

Fortitude nodded. "It's a reasonable exchange of goods and services. The only question is how we can determine an exchange rate.

have a monetary cost of production. Thus, its baseline value could not be estimated with a profit margin. There was no easy

problem well ahead of time,

can use a hypothetical differential system to evaluate the losses suffered by the Martial Union had Matriarch Nephi's prophecy. For instance, if Matriarch Nephi foresees a tsunami from the Great Nam Ocean and ultimately prevents it 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 Nephi's prophecy and evaluate the capital loss suffered as a result. Matriarch Nephi will be entitled to half of

but it got to the heart of the value of prophecy. Indeed, the value of prophecy was in its power to prevent undesirable unforeseen circumstances and manifest desirable

raised an eyebrow. "How would you go about

figure out the value. I can have my faction whip up a team dedicated just to representing Matriarch

and knowledge. Thus, he was more

Elder thoughtfully considered. "It won't always

sure we'll

would try to use this to exploit his grandmother; it was an

was being short-changed. In fact, she might choose to direct her services

for the Martial Union. They needed to keep Matriarch Nephi happy;