Final Duel

While the Martial Artists of the Sekigahara Confederate were uncharacteristically in a state of depression, the civil leaders of the state were in a confidential dialogue with their counterparts in the other powerhouses of East Panama.

They had come to a conclusion rather quickly after having taken full stock of the variety of disasters that had befallen the Sekigahara Confederate.

They needed to ally with the Republic of Gorteau and the Britannian Empire.

Painful as it was to admit, the human leaders of the Sekigahara Confederate had already accepted that they were no match for the Kandrian Empire. With twenty-three known Martial Sages and an estimated hundred-seventy Martial Masters, the Kandrian Empire had become the most powerful nation in the history of the Age of Martial Art.

An all-out war between it and the Sekigahara Confederate meant certain defeat and destruction for the latter.