The Martial Unity

However, the Panamic Alliance was not the only organization that underwent reforms to improve its deep-sea military potential. The elves, both dark and light, established their deep-sea nursery. Creating a layer of aquatic botanical biotechnological layer around all of Genora, responsible exclusively for producing wooden living biosubmarines.

The Mothers of Nature personally commandeered each and every single one of them, relying on small negatron-empowered wormholes to allow them to directly supply energy and exert control. Within a year, they produced almost a hundred thousand tree vessels that could patrol the Great Void Ocean from enemy submarine fleets that sought to chip away at negatron matter protected by the sea monsters that Rui had left there. They created the largest naval military force in the world, relying on the fact that they were the largest continent and species in the world, along with the fact that biotechnology was suited for mass production.

The dwarves, tekvores, and even giants each developed their own unique approaches to deep-sea naval warfare.

It caused the oceans to quake.

Every once in a while, a tremendous tsunami blast of water would emerge from the Great Void Ocean, sending tsunamis around the entire world, directly affecting even the surface war and the many fronts that had erupted between the many allied participants of the war.

In the span of a single year, the war had reached an industrial phase.

It was no longer about demonstrating superiority in battle. That phase had long passed within two months of the commencement of the war, as all changes solidified into a grueling deadlock. The war transitioned into a war of production.

Production of military.

And production of pathwalkers.

It served as a test to indicate which side could produce more warships, siege weapons, and pathwalkers to overwhelm the other side. It also served as a test to examine which side could replenish its losses the best. After all, because NOVA had escalated the intensity of the war to extremely high levels on day one, the loss of life had become catastrophic.

The war was not perfunctory or half-hearted.

Both sides did everything in their power, short of teleporting weapons of mass destruction onto their enemies due to the deterrence of mutually-assured destruction, to defeat each other.

Pathwalkers, Martial or otherwise, fell.

And Pathwalkers rose to replace them.

The Panamic Alliance suffered many grim losses of some of its highest fighting powers. Long-time peak Martial Sages like Elder Diana of the Heaven Sect, Queen Lianiala of the Solaris Kingdom, and the Nestforger of the Nest of Terra perished in battle.

And yet, even more Martial Sages replaced them as several Martial Masters broke through to the Sage Realm at a truly astounding rate. Master Reina, who had taken temporary residence in the Kandrian Empire for many years, broke through to the Sage Realm, along with Master Fae, who finally achieved Enlightenment of Self.

The Water Sect gained its first Martial Sage outside of Rui himself as the vice leader, Master Minn, broke through to the Sage Realm.

The breakthrough rate of the lower Realms was even more shocking. A record number of Martial Apprentices began to break through, along with a truly stunning number of Squires and Seniors also breaking through to a higher Realm of power.

Panama had been uniquely primed to facilitate many, many breakthroughs to a new echelon of power. Prior to the Unfolding, the continent had been Martialized thanks to the Beast Incursion, which forced all nations to undergo Martial transformation.

The year of peace after the Unfolding and the immediately ensuing conflict had created a buffer of supply of Martial Artists who were ready to break through but had not been pushed.

The Martial Senior and Martial Master population had undergone a growth of eleven percent in just the span of the war due to this build-up despite all the deaths.

All participating civilizations engaged in a contest of who could produce more war power relative to how much war power they lost, and by the end of the year, it appeared to be largely a deadlock.

Even if the Martial Artists of the Panamic Continent had had the best results, other paths were not slouches, either, as they produced large numbers of new pathwalkers who could partake in the war, with the sole exception being the elves, who did not suffer any real losses due to their remote warfare.

But even they had grown more mature as a warring power thanks to the virtual reality training that their pathwalkers had undergone with the help of the Panama Continent.

The combination of their organic network superintelligence and the hypnosis Martial Art from the Panamic Alliance proved to be a potent combination, allowing the Genorans to become much better at war than they ever were.

Even if they were still the most immature civilization in terms of conflict, it allowed them to keep up with the rest of the world.

It also didn’t help that they were the world’s largest exporter of food, which made them extremely painful to make enemies of. The dark elves were the friendliest and could produce an astronomical amount of food and supply it at extremely low prices, stunting the food industry in many other continents and nations. The nations that allied with NOVA faced trade embargoes from the elves, who refused to supply them with food.

They were forced to source them from other sources, which were often much, much more costly, creating a surge in the price of food in half the world due to the stark shocks in the supply chains. The other half of the world experienced a surplus and a stark deflation in the price of food, invigorating their economies and stabilizing them despite war.

It had been part of the plan of the Emperor of Harmony. Although not all, there were many nations that were democracies with leaders who could be voted out. When allied with NOVA, they experienced brief famines and food shortages due to the abrupt cut in the supply of food, causing dissatisfaction with their leadership to rise, putting pressure on them to end their participation in the war and giving their political opponents fuel to pursue a more appreciated path to peace.