The Martial Unity

A more detailed announcement from the Floating Sect was released very soon. There were guidelines and instructions for guardians and how they ought to engage in the defense of Ajanta Island.

There were disadvantages that the Floating Sect had when it came to war, unfortunately. The first being that while the Floating Sect had a big army, they were far from united and able to engage in coordinated resistance.

All of the guardians of the Floating Sect were highly individualistic Martial Artists. They almost had to be, in order to develop their Martial Art with individuality. Any attempts to try and act as a unit were bound to end in devastating failures.

The good news was that the Kaddar Treaty Organization was faced with the same problem to a certain degree. The Martial Artists that they had managed to get to migrate to their respective nations were not capable of suddenly jumping into an army of people they weren’t familiar with and begin coordinated efforts immediately.

Of course, there were native Martial Squires that were part of the military, and thus were capable of doing that, however, this did not apply to most Martial Squires.

Thus the war was projected to likely become a chaotic battlefield with most Martial Squires fighting one-on-one without much care for the bigger picture.

The Floating Sect offered a few guidelines with that in mind. The first one was to ensure that one had all the space they needed to fight their opponent optimally. There was no need to get cramped between others, most Martial Squires needed a lot of space for their many techniques to work after all.

Thus, making sure that one had all the space one needed to fight their opinion was crucial. The Floating Sect even encouraged distancing a battle from the island to a certain degree.

It could not afford to have two thousand powerful Martial Squires waging war that close to the island. Thus the greater the distance, the better.

Rui was sure that ideally, the Floating Sect would have loved to be the one to attack the Kaddar Region, however, that was not worth it. Although being the one to wage war would allow them to attack and make the battlefield the Kaddar Region, it was not a good idea because then the Kaddar Region would not hold back one bit whatsoever fearing for causing an island to drop.

Another guideline that the Floating Sect had instructed the guardians with was that some degree of coordination would be required during the arrival of the Kaddar Task Force. Long-range Martial Squires would need to get together and rain down on the incoming army to cause as much damage to the Kaddar Martial Squires.

There were also incredibly simple guidelines to ensure that there was no friendly fire or clashes. These were some of the basics that the Floating Sect could simply not tolerate. Its supply of Martial Squires was cut off by the Kaddar Region, and that meant that guardians hurting each other inadvertently was something that could not be allowed to happen.

There were also norms on ensuring that there was some basic level of efficiency, but beyond that, the guardians were encouraged to find an opponent and defeat them.

If enough guardians defeated enough opponents, victory would fall towards the Floating Sect.

However, Rui doubted whether it was going to be a straightforward all-out war from the very get-go. Given that the Floating Sect had an inclination advantage, it was not beneficial for the Kaddar Region to not launch straightforward charges to the Floating Sect.

However, the most surprising piece of information was the intelligence that the Floating Sect released on the trump card that the Kaddar nations had got themselves. The announcement revealed that the Kaddar Treaty Organization had commissioned a custom weapon that could be used to target the esoteric gravitational core and manipulate it from a distance using some complex mechanism to employ the island’s gravity to hold it together.

This resultantly would apparently apparently would strengthen the bedrock of the island, holding it together, and allowing it to withstand the rigors of Martial combat!

This meant that Kaddar Martial Squires could attack the Floating Sect on the island without any fear whatsoever.

Rui’s eyes widened when he read that the weapon was purchased from a weapons manufacturing corporation known as Frigga Industries!

He had been the one to obtain the intelligence on the weapon, it appeared that by doing so, he may have inadvertently triggered a war!

(‘Damn…’) Rui tutted

If he hadn’t supplied that information to the Floating Sect, they wouldn’t have dug deeper to look into it and eliminate it which probably led to the series of events of the Kaddar Treaty Organization declaring war.

He shook his head, sighing. What was done was done, it could not be undone at this point, so there was no point even thinking about it at the moment.

But this revelation did explain a lot. It explained why the Kaddar Region had boldly declared war, something it had abstained from doing prior. They had found a way to get rid of the greatest deterrence that the Floating Sect had on the Kaddar Region, and that was the prospect of the island collapsing back to the ground, ruining the Kaddar Region in the process.

But now that they had a weapon that could prevent that from happening, it meant that there were fewer and fewer shackles in the Kaddar Region.

It was ironic because the Kaddar Region was attacking and threatening the Floating Sect by actually protecting it with an incredibly powerful esoteric technological weapon. That was how bizarre the circumstances of the Kaddar Region and Ajanta Island were.

He was curious about the strategic limits of the weapon, but unfortunately, the Floating Sect did not appear to be in a position to have such intel, nor did he expect them to have it, since they would have learned about its existence without him had they been able to.