Chapter 2370: Confrontations

Chapter 2370: Confrontations



"...So, you're telling me that you have had a secret hidden Martial Artist at your side for more than three centuries?" The Martial Sages stared at Emperor Rael with pure shock. "A hidden Martial Sage in the Kandrian Empire for more than three hundred years?"

The Martial Sages confronted Emperor Rael at the first opportunity that they got after the battle.

To say that they were shocked was an understatement.

It was one of the greatest revelations that they had come to learn.

It made all of them look at their shared past with new lenses.

Kandria had never had the smoothest of histories, with many significant events involving all of them that now required them to revisit and re-evaluate.

Just how much of the outcomes of everything that they had gone through were a product of this new Martial Sage intervening secretly in the shadows?

They had no clue.

"That's correct," the three-dimensional projection of Emperor Rael replied. "He had been one of my greatest trump cards since even before I became emperor."

"Is that why things always seem to go your way?" Sage Roschem muttered with a stunned expression.

"...I cannot lose a game of Chess if I have pieces that my opponent does not even know of," Emperor Rael answered. "Such is the power of this trump card."

"...How did you ever pull it off?" The Flickering Elder stared at him with a shocked expression.

Emperor Rael smiled. "It was difficult, very difficult, but once you understand the flow of information, you are able to manipulate it to your own advantage and evade it at remarkably high success. I simply fooled the world and ensured that the truth never came to light."

These were tremendous assets in war.

Now, all allies had to consider that joining the East Panamic Treaty Alliance would mean becoming an enemy of the Shionel Confederation and many of the merchants that sold important goods and services.

It would mean that they were cutting themselves off from much of the market since everybody depended on them to some degree in some way or the other. Emperor Rael intended to leverage that to the maximum.

"Prime Minister Edward knows that and thus he will not let up on the Shionel Confederation that easily," Emperor Rael warned. "Thus, I don't intend to call most of you back to the Kandrian Empire. We must provide enough security to ensure that the Shionel Confederation is safe. That goes for you, too, Rui."

Rui stared at his father knowingly. "Well, I'm not too surprised. This was part of the plan from the very start. I make the Shionel Confederation an ally; in return, I get to fight as many Masters as I wish."

This was the personal motivation behind the decision to go to the Shionel Confederation in the first place.

"Unfortunately..." Rui scratched his head. "The only enemy peak Master left in East Panama is

dead."

Rui was not satisfied with the Master's breakthrough to the Sage Realm, which interrupted

their battle.

He truly believed he would have won.

But, unfortunately, he was not satisfied with merely personal conviction; he hoped to prove it

without any shadow of a doubt that he was to win by actually winning.

It was truly unfortunate that the man gained enlightenment of self.