Rui skimmed through the remaining techniques listed there.
They were within his expectations. Power, range, and accuracy were the cornerstones of the techniques that they sought. Based on what she'd just told him, their intention wasn't to just spread the techniques themselves across their entire tribe but to spread the elements of these techniques that they were lacking to their tribe to be incorporated into the techniques that Martial Squires would end up creating. This would allow them to fundamentally improve the quality of their techniques.
On the other hand, the techniques listed in the document that Rui gave Senior K'Mala were different. The techniques that the Martial Union sought were sought after due to their uniqueness.
Techniques that allowed them to exert sustained force in any direction with remarkable precision and accuracy as if the atmosphere was part of their body. Techniques that allowed them to project wide-area defenses; allowing a single Martial Apprentice to extend protection over many people simultaneously. Techniques that incapacitated opponents from a distance by depriving them of air, causing them to choke on the spot in the middle of a fight. Techniques that caused blood to tear out of their opponent's body because of a rapidly created vacuum causing the internal pressure of the body to momentarily overwhelm the flesh that was withholding it.
The G'ak'arkan Tribe was a formidable Martial tribe, and not without reason. It was for these techniques that the Martial Union wanted to engage in trade with them.
These were not techniques that were foundationally strong, but they were techniques that opened new avenues for the Martial Union to explore. Once the Martial Union got its hands on it, it could spread the technique to other Martial Artists while also spending a lot of funds and resources on improving and optimizing them.
Both finished reading through the other's desires, and it didn't seem as though either side was particularly surprised.
Rui wasn't surprised because this was part of his plan from the very start. Show them techniques that allowed them to push past their limits. For the G'ak'arkan Tribe, however, it was only natural that the Martial Union would want techniques that it didn't already have. Thus, when that logic was applied to their repository of techniques, it wasn't particularly surprising that they had managed to predict many of the techniques that the outsiders would want.
Once both of them had digested what the other side wanted, they provided each other with basic information about the techniques that they wanted, as agreed. They would later also have to look at demonstrations and the competency of the Martial Artists performing those techniques as agreed, after all.
Once they reached the basic degree of familiarity, they could resume the negotiations.
"This so-called Pathfinder technique that you wielded in your first battle on this island, we strongly desire this technique. Tell me more about it," She told him.
As per their agreement, the Martial Union would take the first step when it came to both providing information and techniques, thus Rui obliged her request as Stemple passed her a document detailing some data on the technique. None of it was confidential information regarding the mechanics of the technique, but it gave them a good idea of what it was capable of.
"The Pathfinder technique is a technique that I created. What it is, is a technique that allows one to aim accurately without relying on the inherent accuracy of the marksman, but a more calculated accuracy," Rui explained vaguely.
He did not want to give them any specific information, just very vague and general information on what they could expect if they wanted to master the technique.
He did not hold back in explaining the difficulty of mastering the technique. It was a grade-ten technique for a reason, after all. Furthermore, these were primitive people when it came to science, which is what the ODA system of the Pathfinder technique was based on. So the difficulty for them was perhaps even higher than that of the Martial Artists of the Kandrian Empire.
Then again, Kandrian Martial Artists were also generally quite scientifically uneducated, thus he didn't think that there would be too much of a discovery.
"As I said, it is an extraordinarily difficult technique; what we consider to be a grade-ten technique, the highest level of difficulty a technique can be classified to have," Rui concluded.
"...How difficult are grade-ten techniques, exactly?"
"Grade-ten techniques are the kind of techniques that one, or perhaps a few people at the very most, master every generation despite a huge number of people trying to master it," Rui replied.
Grade-ten difficulty was a bit different from the other grades that had upper limits to their difficulty above which there was a higher grade of difficulty. A grade-ten difficulty technique was open-ended as far as the upper limit of difficulty went.
After all, difficulty in and of itself did not have a limit. A technique could be difficult such that only one in ten Martial Artists could master it, or one in a hundred, or a thousand, or a million, or a billion and so on and so forth, there was no end till infinity.
In practice, however, there was very little meaningful difference between a technique that was so difficult that only one in a million could master it, and one that only one in a billion could master it. The distinction between these two was not worth making. Nor was it possible to distinguish between the two unless one had a billion Martial Artists.
Thus, grade ten was an open-ended group for all techniques that were so difficult that generally, only one Martial Artist in a large Martially-rich country like the Kandrian Empire could master it.
Thus, sometimes Rui felt that grade ten undersold the Pathfinder technique, he suspected that his technique could potentially be on the higher end of the grade.
In which case, he wasn't sure that anybody in the G'ak'arkan Tribe could possibly master it.
The worst part was that he was going to have to train them to master it.
