The Martial Unity
chapter-2161

Rui thoroughly enjoyed his tour of the headquarters of the Panamic Martial Federation. It was the first time that he had come across such an ungodly amount of resources dedicated solely to the progression of Martial Art.

It gave him the impression that even if Martial Art were to lose an immense amount of power and capital one day, the Panamic Martial Federation possessed the ability to sustain the growth of Martial Art on its own.

In that regard, he had to admit that it truly was by, for, and of Martial Artists.

One of the reasons that he didn't aggressively spread his knowledge of science was because he was concerned that it could undermine the dominance of Martial Art. He didn't know whether Martial Sages would be able to deal with siege weapons armed with powerful processing power and accurate data.

He would have been less concerned if Martial Transcendents were actually assets that exercised their power. But given that Martial Sages were effectively the peak of Martial Art, he had been wary of the impacts he could have.

However, after seeing how much the Panamic Martial Federation put into Martial Art, he could not help but believe that Martial Art would prevail no matter what.

Of course, he was aware that this was far from an objective analysis and, rationally, it didn't change much.

Regardless, the countless training facilities that could train just about all primary fields of combat and their various sub-fields were a truly amazing sight.

Massive chunks of the surface of the tectonic plate were dedicated offense, defense, and maneuvering. Within them, countless sub-sections dedicated many resources to all conceivable sub-fields within them.

In the offensive section, he could see several avenues dedicated solely to impact-offenses, the most common type of offense in Martial Art. Things like punching and kicking fell into this category. One would think that this was a relatively simple category, yet one could not be further away from the truth in that regard. Every type of blunt force and impact-offense was explored. From vibration-based impact-offense techniques to friction-based, and even temperature and piercing-based offensive techniques. Each had dedicated training facilities to ensure that there was no lack of training resources for even the most niche kinds of techniques.

Of course, more popular and common kinds of techniques and principles got more funding. Rui imagined that a process quite similar to the annual Martial Fiscal Budget Allocation Meeting that happened in the Martial Union also happened in the Panamic Martial Federation.

Within the defense sector, entire portions of the infrastructure were dedicated to a variety of conditioning-based techniques that operated with many different principles. Conditioning was bread and butter as far as defense went. Yet, it was an extremely broad field that operated on many different principles.

After all, the human body was extremely complex. The same was even more true for the Martial Body. There were many layers and systems of the human body that could be conditioned in different ways to improve its ability to withstand force inflicted on it. There were many advantages that came with conditioning one's body. Passive durability that didn't consume any energy or any mental attention was an asset for obvious reasons. Such high benefits for merely suffering through the conditioning process were the reasons that these techniques were popular. With such a large number of Martial Artists mastering and developing various kinds of conditioning techniques, it was natural that a lot of techniques with different philosophies and principles had emerged.

However, it appeared that the Panamic Martial Federation was able to keep up with all the techniques that had sprung up across the Martial World, for there existed training resources for every kind of technique that Rui could even conceive of.

This included techniques that only he had mastered due to having developed them for himself—such was the versatility of the training resources available at his disposal.

He spent quite some time admiring the vast training infrastructure that he could access at any point he wanted.

"I might have been able to complete training the Yin-Yang Spear sooner if I had trained here instead of in the Kandrian Empire," he realized. However, he would have had to contribute wealth or Martial contributions to make use of it while he could make use of the Martial Union's facilities for free when in the Kandrian Empire.

At the moment, he wasn't feeling generous enough to contribute to anybody after all he had done for the Kandrian Empire.

Eventually, his little tour of the Panamic Martial Federation's training section came to an end. It was time to get to business.

He didn't want to stall the mission that his father had given him.

"Ah, I'm afraid to inform you that your slot has not yet been assigned, Master Rui," the employee at the counter began when he approached. "That is not what I'm here to inquire about," Rui stated with a calm voice. "I believe that I'm allowed to book appointments with members of the Panamic Martial Federation's advisory council, right?"

"Of course, Your Mastery. Are you perhaps interested in booking a meeting with anybody in particular?" Rui nodded. "Sage Kole Kellin."

He didn't miss the micro-reactions from her body language and the mental ripples inside her mind when she heard his answer.

"…Of course, Your Mastery," she replied with a perfunctory response.

"Is anything wrong?" Rui raised an eyebrow. "Ah…" Her expression grew troubled. "You can speak freely, you know." "I'm sorry, Your Mastery." She bowed her head. "However, Her Honored Sagehood very rarely accepts meeting requests from anybody, I'm afraid."

Rui narrowed his eyes. "Is that so…?"

It matched the intelligence reports that his father had supplied him with, which reported that she was pretty insular and rarely communicated with anybody. Thus, it begged the question of how one could possibly get in touch with her.

"How much would it cost to get her to see me?"

The employee grew more uncomfortable at the implications of his words. "I'm afraid we do not have such provisions at the Panamic Martial Federation."