The Martial Unity

Just like the Republic of Gorteau and the Britannian Empire, the Sekigahara Confederate was also displeased by the return of the Emperor of Harmony for their own reasons. They were the most ideologically opposed and antithetical to the Emperor of Harmony.

While they respected his capacity in war as the supreme commander of the Kandrian Military, they deeply abhorred the philosophy that had come to embody his politics.

"The Emperor of Harmony," the matriarch of the Tsukishi Clan grumbled. "Coming back and calling for a C16 meeting from the start. Who does he think he is?"

"…It's just like him," the patriarch of the Kenjin Clan narrowed his eyes. "Of the four powerhouses, he was the one who initiated cooperation the most."

The Republic of Gorteau sought war for profit, while the Britannian Empire simply sought war because it was a state that was led by Martial Artists who needed physical conflict to grow.

The Sekigahara Confederate was in a similar position.

In addition to Martial Artists needing war for growth, war was also baked into the blood of its culture.

Not just its culture, war was baked into the business model of the state. The state was reborn during the Martial Revolution three hundred years ago after the fourteen clans took over from the Sekigahara Empire and rebranded to a confederate of fourteen powerful clans.

Since then, the powerhouse had been sustaining itself through war.

There was a reason that North-East Panama was the most war-stricken area in all of East Panama.

was rather simple and was a

propaganda, and other population manipulation tactics to create civil hotspots across all of North-East Panama. These were small regions, often smaller and weaker states, and entirely vulnerable. The Sekigahara Confederate would covertly create civil unrest,

civil war was between two or more groups centered around immutable differences characterized by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, and sex, they tapped into

naturally, the demand for Martial Artists would

swoop in and supply the Martial Artists in demand in exchange for large sums of money,

their own market by creating

each other in these civil hotspots on opposing sides. Yet, that was entirely normal and even considered healthy by the clan heads, although the Martial Artists of the Lower Realms developed deep hostility against

and sport,

characterized by deep disharmony. It

everything that the Emperor of Harmony

entirely antithetical to everything

he represented an existential threat to

across Panama, then their way of life was

all three powerhouses, they were the most firmly

being said," the patriarch of the Kaze Clan narrowed his

they would have loved to flip the middle finger to the Emperor of Harmony, they would only be hurting themselves by not partaking in the meeting. The C16 was the platform upon which intergovernmental policies that would impact the

their detriment, unfortunately. The business model of the Sekigaharan Confederate was unstable

the patriarch of Enken Clan snorted. "All that funding we poured into Prince Randal's campaign during the Kandrian Throne War was useless from the very beginning if the Emperor of Harmony was