Chapter 2145 The Great Limit

Chapter 2145 The Great Limit

He had put the man to good use in manufacturing and developing large amounts of Martial resources with proprietary technology three years ago. Emperor Rael possessed the deep political foresight to know that without ensuring a great surplus of Martial resources and market opportunities, he would not be able to retain all these extra Martial Apprentices.

It was one of the reasons that he had decided to root out the Underworld at all. He needed to get his hands on this man who would be able to increase the quantity of available Martial resources without compromising on quality.

However, resource availability was just half of the matter, he also needed to ensure that the surplus Martial Apprentices had ample market opportunities.

He had long thought of a solution for this.

"Inform the Martial Union to commence the acceleration of Apprentice commissions for the Elder Tree operations." He glanced at his secretary.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Making use of the Elder Tree's intelligence and fulfilling his end of the bargain with the Elder Tree required Martial labor. Thus, he could provide job opportunities to the surplus of Martial Apprentices by having them fulfill the Elder Tree missions.

Deploying them to the Beast Domain would not only give them a good experience and a handsome income, but it would also prime their development to become hunter-class Martial Artists. A class that was about to become sorely needed if the Kandrian Empire wanted to maximize the benefits of the Beast Domain.

It was killing multiple birds with a single stone.

This would satisfy the Apprentices of the Kandrian Empire in the long run, erasing any reason for them to leave. It left them and the rest of the economy and markets happy.

"Dealing with the local economic and political ramifications was easy enough, but..." Emperor Rael's eyes narrowed. "The international and geopolitical ramifications will not be easy."

The news would not remain restricted within the Kandrian Empire, after all.

It never did.

From local and international investigative and news organizations to spying and intelligence agencies, there were many paths for these juicy revelations to spread to the rest of the world. And spread, they did.

It spread like wildfire far beyond the Kandrian Empire.

For Martial Transcendents did not move.

To this day, nobody knew why.

But, these unfathomable gods refused to exercise their power.

Even the most warmongering of Sages like Emperor Arthur of Britannia became an aloof, unmoving ruler who distanced him from all lesser affairs.

It meant that organizations that obtained a Transcendent essentially lost a Martial Sage without any compensation.

In other words, becoming stronger made them weaker.

It was a paradoxical yet brutal reality, one that limited how much stronger Sage-level powerhouses could become. More precisely, it limited how fast they could become stronger, making any gains in power extremely grueling and marginal over great periods of time with none of the many spikes that were common throughout the Age of Martial Arts.

This was the Great Limit.

Even if Martial Sages continued to be born en masse without dying in combat with their peers in the depths of the Beast Domain, they would essentially continue to 'die' as assets when they broke through to the Transcendent Realm.

It put an extremely hard limit on how much stronger Sage-level powerhouses could get, one that none of them could find a solution to. Yet, as East Panama realized, the Kandrian Empire might have found a true long-term solution to overcoming the Great Limit.

An exponential increase in Martial Apprentices eventually yielded an exponential increase in Squires, Seniors, Masters, and Sages.

Thus, the birth of young Sages who were far from the Transcendent Realm meant that the influx of Sages would far outweigh the outflux of Sages into the Transcendent Realm, allowing for a spike far past Sage-level powerhouse territory into a proper Transcendent-level nation.

And that was precisely what the Kandrian Empire was attempting to do.

Yet, while most of East Panama was merely aghast and shocked, the reaction of the other three Sage-level powerhouses was a lot more volatile.

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