"Is this the place?"
"Baka!"
"You couldn't even deal with one tiny martial hall?"
"You've utterly disgraced the Great Cherry Blossom Empire!"
The eastern general, dressed in a crisp uniform with a longsword at his waist, berated them.
He looked to be in his fifties, yet he was powerfully built, his eyes exceptionally keen.
"Yes, sir!"
"General Furuta! The master of this Seek-Truth Martial Hall is a Martial Grandmaster who has trained his kung fu into every bone in his body!"
"He slaughtered an entire hundred-man gendarmerie company single-handedly!"
"He also killed Lady Yoshida Inako, the only Martial Grandmaster in our Far City Gendarmerie Bureau!"
"We had no choice but to ask you to come, General Furuta!"
"As a Martial Grandmaster, you can easily kill him!"
The chief of the Far City Gendarmerie Bureau followed behind the eastern general, his head bowed as he spoke respectfully.
He had no other choice.
Over these past ten years.
Nearly two-thirds of the gendarmes in their Far City Gendarmerie Bureau had been killed by the master of this Seek-Truth Martial Hall!
He had repeatedly sent large forces to surround and kill the man, but his methods were truly terrifying. Even the thousand-man force he had once deployed had been routed by hidden weapons so unpredictable that neither gods nor ghosts could fathom them.
Now, people from the other eight nations throughout Far City were laughing at them.
So he had gritted his teeth and invited General Furuta.
A Martial Grandmaster could naturally cut the man down with ease!
Yet even their Great Cherry Blossom Empire had few Martial Grandmasters of such caliber.
There were no more than thirty Martial Grandmasters within the Eastern Kingdom.
And in the south of the Eastern Kingdom, where Far City lay, there were only six Martial Grandmasters from