Nah, not always fail but you need at least 350 MP.
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thats easy! just go on the hunt with Emily and get back using the back button to the start of the dialogue every time you do not get 1 rm! that should be easily 10-14 rm´s per hunt(if you got Bella because you should also collect that +1 strength and the +5) 12 plus if you also do it in the afternoon but you should have better things to do like reading...
and then use it to acquire military points on the research options!
can not recall if its the treasure or the other but probably the treasure and hunt it with Emily!
you can also use the merlin tower and keep using the back to the beggining of the dialogue until it spits out 10 realm points to use in research later! but that one is trickier and using the hunting is better!
before it was even better since you also got 1 swordsmanship but droid tweaked it -.-
I didn't have problems with the realm points. I must have been a few days late getting the missions to show up
that is why i normally wait until the game is done until i do a proper full run!
too many to be continued options irks me greatly i lost my best save where i had 64 swordsmanship before the Norse meeting in book 2 because of the kingdom events got muddled so had to restart from an even previous save and lost that nice +1 strength and +1 swordsmanship per hunt!
at the same time it was when i discovered the back to the beginning of the dialogue option...
it can even abused if you save properly
so it was a tit for a twat or a Bella for a Chloe in game terms...