The Martial Unity

2942  Unsustainable Incursion Rate

The blood children had become the newest source of stress for many leaders around the world. The Kandrian Empire and the Blood Cult had limited the distribution of blood children to Sage-level powerhouses for the time being.

Initially, when the Emperor of Harmony first learned about the blood children, he had considered dispersing them across the entire world, but ultimately scrapped that plan.

There was no point in handing out these miracles to nations that couldn't make the best out of them. Too many nations, battered by the sustained Beast Domain, simply didn't have the ability to maximize the potential of these blood children. Human resource development was a parameter that was most critical and important to evaluating whether a nation was worthy to get a blood human.

And only the Sage-level powerhouses had the necessary resources needed to make the most of these blood humans, to engineer the optimal environments, and to give them the necessary high-quality training to eventually get them to be extraordinarily strong Martial Artists.

Emperor Rael intended to spread the seed and eggs of this generation once they matured and fully underwent puberty across humanity. The second generation would usher in the next era of humanity and would proceed to be markedly evolved compared to their predecessors.

Unfortunately, the largest issue was that some racial tensions and conflicts were essentially inevitable.

"Unfortunately, Your Majesty," the Director continued. "According to the Psycher's and the Scrier's reports, the blood conflict probability parameter is still decisive."

The insights of the Immortal Sages were quite great. Looking to the past, they were able to identify patterns correlated with racial tensions and conflicts, patterns that could help predict the future.

"According to them," the Director explained. "Racial distinction is directly proportional to racial discrimination and conflict. The greater the difference, the more stark the difference, the more acute the difference, the greater the likelihood of racial conflict occurring between the two species of humanity."

The Emperor of Harmony's eyes sharpened intensely.

"A conflict we will lose if it truly comes to be."

Blood humans were superior in every aspect conceivable, including physicality and even mentality.

They had a markedly greater IQ than that of normal humanity, as they innately had greater cognitive potential. In Martial Squires, this cognitive potential could only be tapped with the Martial Heart and a system of thought embedded into the greater cognitive capital of the brain.

But in blood, humans, who essentially grew up with that potential, could be unlocked more organically and naturally.

Blood babies began speaking before six months of age.

They learned to walk far earlier, and their capacity to grow when it came to speech and even academics far exceeded that of normal human babies.

This made socialization even more complicated.

More importantly, it frightened the leaders of humanity when it came to children's bottomless potential.

And yet, despite their extraordinary intelligence, the record for the highest recorded intelligence in the Martial Academies was still held by a human, set many decades ago when he first entered the Martial Academy.

He was, of course, an outlier.

"Once these blood humans mature and grow powerful and rise in numbers, we will not be able to win any racial conflict that emerges," the Emperor of Harmony's expression grew grim. "The very fate of our species is at stake and we cannot allow racial conflict to emerge."

"It's unfortunate that we didn't have the data that we have now back then," Emperor Rael remarked with a grim tone. "Regardless, we need to stay on top of all of this and spot any troubling patterns well before they blow up in our faces."

"Yes, Your Majesty. That brings an end to the weekly report we have."

"Good work, you may leave."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

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Emperor Rael heaved a sigh as he relaxed in his Royal Chair, taking a small break.

It hadn't been easy handing matters of such enormous magnitude, but also matters that were so extraordinarily new. There weren't too many racial divergences in humanity outside of simple traits. Only the Sol people and the Marinaera humans had any degree of evolutionary divergence from the main human species.

The blood human matter was something else entirely.

It could potentially elevate humanity to brand-new uncharted territories of power that nobody had ever reached ever before, but it could also lead to the destruction of human civilization.

He shook his head. "It's not an acute problem. As long as we steer their development in the right direction, we should be able to prevent them from becoming an enemy of human civilization."

For now, he had more important things to focus on.

He skimmed through the reports on the daily Beast Incursion reports that found themselves on his desk every day. This was the one place that he didn't dare not stay entirely on top of at all times.

His eyes rested on a graph with several squiggly lines running about.

Despite their fluctuations, the long-term prospects of the Beast Incursion were rather clear.

"…We don't have too much time."

It was a downward trajectory for the territory of the human domain.

It was an upward trajectory for the incursion rate for the beast tides.

This was because, despite all of Rui's efforts and the countless breakthroughs he had achieved, the esoterification of human civilization was simply too powerful a variable. It increased the reproduction rate of beasts and monsters to absurd degrees as they gained more and more esoteric shelter and bases.

Recuperation and healing became more sustainable, and in many places, they had even begun gaining an environmental advantage because of how much the continent had changed in the past ten years. Only the Kandrian Empire and one or two more nations were entirely able to withstand such a tremendous incursion rate.

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