The Kandrian Empire wasrge. Especially whenpared to the many small sovereign states in its immediate geographic neighborhood.


    Most of these small statescked a strong Martial foundation. They were unable to sustain or retain many of the Martial Artists that did end up breaking through from their poptions.


    The reason was brutally simple; Large nations were more attractive to Martial Artists than smaller nations. Many of them moved to therger nations such as the Kandrian Empire, the Sekigahara Confederate, the Britannian Empire and the Republic of Gorteau.


    These nations were able to facilitate their growth as Martial Artists to a much higher degree than smaller nations could. Due to a greater avability of better learning and growth resources.


    These nations were also one of the few that had a strong centralized Martial Artist organization, such as the Martial Union of the Kandrian Empire. This was also an additional incentive to the Martial Artists of smaller states to join therger nations, as these Martial Artist organizations often offered a plethora of useful benefits to joining them.


    Therger nations did not make it too difficult for these Martial Artists to integrate into their states either. After all, Martial Artists were precious assets to all nations. They were of strategic importance and were absolutely vital to all nations in order to maintain their militaristic power.


    Thus, no nations would refuse gaining more of them.


    As a consequence, the smaller nations were much more depleted of Martial Artists inparison to therger nations. The fewer Martial Artists of each of these nations were unable to fulfill the consumer demand for Martial Art services.


    Furthermore, without a strong andrge bureaucratic organization such as the Martial Union that could quickly process allmissions for Martial Art services in a standardized manner and convert them into mission bills that could swiftly be delivered to all Martial Artists, it impossible for the Martial Artists of these smaller nations to be able to fulfill therge demand of the market for Martial Art services in their own nations.


    So what did the consumer market do when the Martial Artists of their own nations could not fulfill their demands?


    They turned to therger nations.


    The Martial organizations ofrger nations like the Kandrian Martial Union were in no shortage of capable Martial Artists, thus they happily catered to the demand for Martial services. Each of therge nations hadmission offices across the territories of the smaller nations, allowing them to ess a wide international market outside of their own borders, receiving a vast number ofmissions from across all these nations.


    The missions Rui was browsing through were among thesemissions from nations within therge international market that the Kandrian Martial Union.


    [Offense-ss mission: Elimination mission.


    Clientele: Dashaian Temple. Mosca, Minnivaille Kingdom.


    Target of elimination; Inhabitants of Mosca Church of Woyeh.


    Location of target; Mosca, Minnivaille Kingdom.


    Difficulty: Grade 8


    Missionmencement: Immediate.


    Sessfulpletion remuneration: 30 gold coins, 7 silver coins and 5 bronze coins/ 800 Martial credits.


    Mission summary: Eliminate as many inhabitants of the Mosca Church of Woyeh once the missionmences. Averaging with a poption 150 at any given point and confirmed presence of one Martial Apprentice.]


    "Woah." Rui''s eyes widened.


    A templemissioning a grade-eight mission to massacre a church in the same town as itself?


    "That''s wild."


    The Kandrian Empire was secr and didn''t have a particrly dominant religion. However, it seemed that the Minnivaille Kingdom had to have severe religious conflicts if a temple was willing to massacre a church!


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    Rui shook his head. He had no interest in doing something as distasteful as massacring a church.


    The other offensive missions weren''t necessarily better. All of them made Rui feel fortunate to be born in the Kandrian Empire where there was a certain degree of stability. He did not have to feel worried about international Martial Artists beingmissioned by citizens to harm others citizens within the same nation, because such things were unprecedented, as far as he knew.


    "Hm?" Another mission bill caught his eye.


    [Offense-ss mission: Elimination/Capture mission


    Clientele: Fria


    Target of mission: Ruyloken Gang


    Difficulty: Grade 9


    Missionmencement: Immediate.


    Sessful remunerationpletion: 38 gold coins, 4 silver coins


    Mission execution location: [23.3285, 26.4523] Hefermaine Vige, outside the Kingdom of Grahal


    Mission summary: Eliminate or capture the Ruyloken Gang that has seized control of the Hefermaine Vige alive.]


    This one didn''t seem as distasteful as the rest. He picked up the mission, shugging. It was definitely the best out of the existing international missions that he saw.


    He took it to the Registrar, officially epting the mission before sitting down at a table in the library. After all, one couldn''t gain ess to the full information in the mission bill until one epted the mission. Mission bills often contained sensitive and confidential data that only the Martial Artists epting themission had ess to, ording to themission contract that the clientele signed with the Martial Union.


    He immediately opened it, as he began reading the details of the mission thoroughly.


    The Hefermaine vige was a tributary of the Kingdom of Grahal, a small kingdom south-west of the Kingdom of Grahal. it was a small settlement as far as poption went. The vigers made a living by engaging in agriculture, they upied rich ins with highly arablend and sold all the excess crop harvest to the Kingdom of Grahal.


    Although their lifestyle was rather simple, it was a peaceful vige.


    Until a gang known as the Ruyloken Gang took over the vige and robbed all of the vige''s wealth earned from the harvest sold to the Kingdom of Grahal and other surrounding states. The vige had very little security, being as remote as it was. Furthermore, the gang was lead by an experienced Martial Apprentice. The vige had no way to resist.


    The gang simply upied vige and barred anyone from leaving, they simply had the vigers work relentlessly and took the gold when the pay came.


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