The Martial Unity

Chapter 2098 Meeting

Emperor Rael narrowed his eyes as he gazed at the spread of documents on his table. In the past week, he had entirely refamiliarized himself with all of the happenings in Kandria and in all of East Panama.

He had gotten a thorough understanding of all the domestic and international shifts in the balance of power and capital.

The Kandrian Empire had not come out of the Kandrian Throne War doing too well.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Kandrian Empire had been doing just fine on paper. A substantial influx of capital bolstered net exports to a rate of growth that actually touched double-digit percentage points.

However, the Emperor of Harmony had eruditely arrived at the truth after conducting a meta-analysis on the topic. His investigations revealed that while the Kandrian Empire had indeed gotten richer, that was largely due to an influx of capital from foreign powers who had invested in one of the eight prime royals competing for the throne, including Rui.

These included nations, commercial organizations of all kinds, factions, sects, and other power blocs that had each wished to influence not only who his successor was to be but also what kind of acts they ought to take as the next ruler.

The Kandrian Empire was truly powerful in every facet of evaluation and measure, and many powers had deemed it worthy to try and invest a lot in manipulating its next ruler.

That was why the numbers were misleading.

While a lot of money entered Kandria from foreign power blocs, a lot of capital had also left the empire. Many medium and even decently large businesses had left the nation in fear of the next ruler. After all, whoever the next ruler was, they had the power to set the nation ablaze, literally and figuratively. And considering that most of the prime candidates had been utterly insane, many had written Kandria off and left.

And now that the Throne War had long ended and the money stopped flowing in, this weakness had settled in.

The Kandrian economy was weaker than he had left it in.

It was an unfortunate turn of events.

Until he regained his old power and influence, restored Kandria's economy to its former peak, and restored the balance of power within the nation, there was absolutely no way in hell that he could even consider starting the war.

could

that needed to be fulfilled before

Kandrian Empire and, well, all of East Panama. Obviously, in a symmetric all-out war, Kandria stood no chance in a war against a

better than anybody else that war was not

lost

Martial power through means that many

Rael could, however.

a strategy had already formed in his mind, one that painted a

It was possible.

intended to manifest. This

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entered into deep training at the Daracol Base. According to the Intelligence Bureau, he will most likely

A smile cracked at the edge of his mouth. "Now,

Royal Office as his assistant guided him

closer he approached, the more he could feel the world bending to the weight of the beings of his guests. It was a sensation he never got used to,

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Council of the Martial Union. They sat across a large table with eleven extravagant

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manner, they would have been imprisoned for violating the law. Yet, they were the Martial Sages of