Chapter 2254: Logistical Constraints

Chapter 2254: Logistical Constraints



Many found it strange that the Esocline Federation would be willing to go so far as to serve as an external strategic deterrent for the sake of protecting the Kandrian Empire. Perhaps if the Kandrian Empire and Esocline Federation had been age-old allies with a long history of cooperating with each other, it would make more sense.

However, that most certainly wasn't the case.

If anything, the Esocline Federation was closer to being an ally with the Sekigahara Confederate due to the fact that it had been the supplier of esoteric military technology to the Sekigaharans.

The Sekigahara Confederate did not conduct any R&D when it came to technology. They had no background in it and were strictly Martial. If not for the fact that being deprived of such military technological assets would have made them the weakest of the four Sage-level powerhouses of East Panama, they would have never bothered getting their hands on such technological capital in the first place.

This meant that the Esocline Federation had forsaken a long-term client for the sake of the Kandrian Empire, with which it had no prior relationship.

Not a single person in the war council could contain their curiosity as to how the Emperor of Harmony managed to flip the Esocline Federation to his side despite the odds stacked against him.

"Oh, it's simple, really," Emperor Rael calmly replied. "Interest, agendas, and objectives supersede relationships in the world of geopolitics. As long as one is able to grasp the latter, one can break up even the most solid of alliances and relationships. In this case, all I needed to do was understand what the leader and founder of Esocline Federation seeks to achieve. And it's rather simple to deduce what his intentions are."

His gaze swept across the entire table.

"Think about it," Emperor Rael continued unperturbed. "Is it possible to extract all resources out of the Beast Domain even if we deployed each and every Martial Artist to the Beast Domain to focus exclusively on the intel given by the Elder Tree?"

The council members fell into thought at his question.

The Beast Domain was absolutely enormous, densely packed, and was extremely dangerous. Even with the exact location of each resource, it didn't change the fact that they needed to travel an enormous amount of distance, undertake great personal risk, and overcome massive amounts of adversity to finally reach the target location, extract the resource, and then lug it back home.

This took time, risk, and losses, all of which reduced both the frequency at which these missions could be conducted as well as the total number of such operations that could be conducted each month.

"On top of that, it is impossible to dedicate all Martial Artists to the Beast Domains for obvious reasons," Emperor Rael continued. "Domestic and international martial business, military operations, governmental contracts, training, and the bare minimum of Martial Artists that need to be within the Kandrian Empire for national security. The point is that it is absolutely impossible to make use of all the intel we get from the Elder Tree; at most, we can make use of ten percent. This ten percent consists of the most precious and important Sage- level and Transcendent-level resources. Information about the remaining ninety percent of resources that the Elder Tree has detected is functionally useless to us due to practical logistical constraints."

Realization dawned upon the members of the council as they understood the Emperor's reasoning.

"And since all that information is functionally useless to us, why not trade it for something that is useful?" Emperor Rael smiled. "The Esocline Federation is the perfect target for this. Esoteric technology is highly demanding of resources, far more so than Martial Art is. In other words, I am offering something that is precious enough to the Esoterist for him to discard his relationship with the Sekigahara Confederate without a second thought and readily serve as an external strategic deterrence for us."

"Your Majesty..." Grand General Aramoeous's eyes widened. "Is that why you spent the past three years building a relationship with the Esocline Federation long before tensions escalated?"

"Of course," Emperor Rael smiled. "This is all a part of my grand plan to ensure that the Kandrian Empire overcomes all adversities and reaches uncharted realms of power, glory, and prospers. Mark my words, brothers and sisters, this victory that our valiant Martial Artists have brought us is just the first of many."