Rui felt a weight wearing down on his shoulders.
He knew the stake of the meeting.
The Kandrian Empire needed to secure the Shionel Confederation at any cost.
Not that defeat was absolutely written in stone with no recourse if they didn't, of course. However, it would mean that the Kandrian Empire could potentially fall into a losing spiral as the enemy alliance would gain more momentum toward their goal of securing the Martial capital needed to avoid a pyrrhic victory.
He needed to succeed, no matter what.
He had spent the previous day thinking about what he could say that could undermine the Britannian prime minister's case to the guildmaster. However, it wasn't easy to predict a man as able as him. If anything, he wasn't sure whether the man was predicting his strategy and tactics instead. The prime minister certainly had far more experience in this domain than Rui did, and it was possible that he could estimate exactly where Rui was going to go with this approach.
