Rui wasn't particularly fond of the idea of meeting the Blood Cult.
For one, he knew that it was not a rational polity, which he really desired after dealing with the Virodhabhasa Theocracy. Was it too much to ask for a completely sane and normal powerhouse to deal with that could listen to reason and not make his life even harder?
Alas, it was very unlikely that such a nation would have ever made it to the position that they did if they were so normal.
Standing out among countless human polities required one to truly diverge from the norm. The Kandrian Empire did this through his father's aversion of civil war and harnessing the full power of the nation by having previously conflicting forces work in harmony to elevate the nation to a higher level while other nations were devastated by the second Martial Revolution and the civil wars that came from it.