The Martial Unity

Chapter 2126 Strategic Outlook

If Rael decided to use Rui's breakthrough to the Apprentice Realm to its absolute fullest, then the stakes for both sides in the war skyrocketed. A greatly enlarged supply of Martial Apprentices meant that in the future, Kandria would greatly surpass all the other Sage-level powerhouses in the quantity of Martial Artists.

In other words, it truly was do or die at that point in time before the additional supply of Martial Artists made a genuine difference.

"Martial Apprentices cannot affect the strategic outlook of an all-out war."

Neither of them had any delusions in that regard.

"When the war will have escalated to its prime height, the only classes of Martial Artists that will be able to affect the strategic outlook of the war are Martial Sages and Martial Masters," Emperor Rael remarked, engrossed in thought. "More Apprentices will bring us no real benefits in the war but will alarm our enemies and make them even more desperate to attack and destroy us."

"…Are you saying that it isn't worth it?" Rui raised an eyebrow.

"I'm saying that in order for it to be worth it, I need to be damn certain that it doesn't get us destroyed."

anyway." Rui frowned. "Might as well go all out. After all,

don't need to remind you that there is more to the continent than just East Panama. There are Sage-level powerhouses in all four corners of the continent. They might decide that the threat of being able to trigger Apprentice breakthroughs on top of all the other treasures is too much to ignore

grew grave at the mention of the

the Sekigahara Confederate, and the Republic of Gorteau. That alone was a nightmare, with

powerhouses joined the fray, then Rui was deeply skeptical of their ability to not lose, even

"…It's tolerable."

"The distance between the four Sage-level powerhouses is absolutely enormous," Emperor Rael remarked. "The distance between us and the other Sage-level powerhouse across the continent is even larger. In other words, it is deeply impractical for them to wage war against us over such vast expanses. That is why the Kandrian Empire has never been involved in

to project power so far away from their territory. Only Martial Sages can cross such massive expanses in a reasonable amount of time without wasting too much

Martial Masters, crossing this great distance with the Martial Mind active would take days of actual travel time, while the drawbacks of the Martial Mind would force them to sleep, leaving themselves vulnerable in the middle of war far

remarked knowingly. "No, they're embroiled in their own conflicts and local matters,

shrugged. "Well, it's all

the limits and constraints of this ability of

spend an overwhelming majority of the day on training. I don't mind offering help on these kinds of matters as long as

rich voice was reassuring. "Now

with training. "Ah, I wanted to borrow the manifold for gathering experience," Rui informed him.

are things gained from experience that no amount of thought could ever hope