"So, your n is to form a settlement on Vilun Ind?" Senior Ceeran frowned even after Rui thoroughly exined everything.
"As I said, there are many merits to this n that I justid out," Rui neatly disguised his exasperation with patience.
"How long will be settling on the ind?" Senior Ceeran wondered.
"For however long it takes," Rui replied calmly. "But I am predicting for several weeks to potentially a few months. Worst case scenario it would take years of grinding at their reluctance before we seed."
Of course, Rui did not think that would happen. Frankly, he was most optimistic about wearing down the G''ak''arkan Tribe''s continuous refusal to trade techniques with his second n, more than anything. The settlement n only addressed one hurdle out of the several that blocked the path to a sessful and fruitful trading agreement with the G''ak''arkan Tribe.
"And you said you wanted me topile a Martial Artist profiles formissioner Derun whose expertise and Martial Paths are centered around the kinds of techniques that we are offering to the G''ak''arkan Tribe?" Senior Ceeran turned to Rui with an inquisitive look.
"That''s right, you can limit to Martial Apprentices and Martial Squires only," Rui nodded. "From what I have concluded from a preliminary analysis, the G''ak''arkan Tribe iscking in range and power,pared to our techniques," Rui remarked. "So perhaps getting a lot of Martial Apprentices and Martial Squires who greatly excel in these two parameters specifically would suit our needs the best."
"Those aren''t the only avenues that they arecking in," Senior Ceeran snorted.
"Then feel free to include any additional parameters that they arecking in additionally, as well," Rui replied. "I''d suggest picking Martial Art techniques that are low in difficulty as possible while still having a high enough potency grade to be significantly superior to the G''ak''arkan Tribe in any given avenue or parameter. We want to impress them with how powerful our techniques are, but impressing them with how manageable they are to master is also equally important. They will not be receptive to trading techniques with us if our techniques will be damn near impossible for them to master. At most, the high-difficulty and high-grade techniques can be used additionally to impress them."
"That''s a shame, they would certainly be very impressed with your Pathfinder technique that just so happens to cover one of their weaknesses," Senior Ceeran smiled, turning to Rui.
Of course, Rui had long realized this himself. It was most certainly true that his Pathfinder technique ought to be nothing short of shocking to the G''ak''arkan Tribe. He wasn''t even sure if even the Martial Seniors of the Martial Tribe could replicate its feats.
Rui did intend to leverage it to seduce the G''ak''arkan Tribe into having a trade with them. He only needed to figure out the best way to make the moststing impact on them. He hadn''t yete up with an aptly satisfactory timing and situation yet.
"Regardless, please be sure to send the Martial Artist profiles to Commissioner Derun as soon as possible," Rui requested him. "The sooner she gets that information, the sooner she can put together a team for the mission."
"This mission has escted more than I ever imagined it would, I never realized that facilitating diplomatic rtions with foreign parties can be aplished through such indirect methods as well," He noted. "As expected, Derun made a great choice by assigning you to this mission."<novelsnext></novelsnext>
"The two conversed before going separate ways.
Rui''s immediate work was done, now he just needed to make sure he was informed of all thetest updates to the settlement operation preparations.N?vel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive ? material.
It wasn''t as simple as rounding up some skilledborers needed to build the basic infrastructure of his settlement from the natural resources abundant on the ind and manage the logistics of the settlement, he would need to rely on the ecologists of the Ministry of Environment and Ecology that would be dispatched and figure out a way to build a self-sufficient settlement. They would need to secure food and water supplies, they would need to establish security measures based on the fauna of the ind.
Thankfully, Rui''s n involved building only a highly primitive settlement. He was not adept at statesmanship, if he had to build a modernized settlement, he would probably fail as he struggled to build viable minimunications, energy, and transportation sectors.
Still, just because he was building a simple settlement did not mean his job was simple. The G''ak''arkan Tribe made it look simple because they were highly unified in their warped culture, and their hierarchy of authority was entirely centered around Martial prowess.
The same could not be said for the settlement that Rui needed to construct. Things were moreplicated, unfortunately. As the lead diplomat and the initiator of this operation, he was the highest in the chain ofmand, despite neither being the strongest nor probably sufficiently qualified.
He would most be delegating almost all of the work to the settlement team that Martialmissioner Derun would dispatch, who had their own orders.
It was messy andplicated.
Still, as long as it looked nice on the outside, Rui was fine. They were not trying to create a settlement that was highly efficient and viable forever in the long term. It was merely a means to show the G''ak''arkan Tribe exactly what they were in for if they decided to ept the trading offer that the Martial Union had repeatedly made to them.
"Those techniques better be worth all this effort," Rui sighed in frustration.
The workload, even when he delegated a lot, was not easy. Just staying on top and making sure things were in order to much of his time. Yet Rui did his job diligently until the Martialmissioner informed him that all of the final preparations had been made and the settlement team was soon to be dispatched to Vilun ind.
Within two weeks, a new andrger ship arrived at the ind.
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