The Martial Unity

As he was thinking about the classes of missions he immediately crossed out covert operations. The skill pre-requisite for the covert operations missions was much more niche and extensive than the other classes. One needed stealth, sensory, infiltration and espionage capabilities that Rui just frankly lacked.

While it was true that Rui had mastered Blink, Blink was not good enough all by itself. Blink had weaknesses, for example, it's timing and usage was largely out of Rui's hands. He could not use Blink whenever he wanted because he needed his opponent to Blink.

Furthermore, the greater the number target numbers, the exponentially harder to became to apply Blink. Because people didn't blink at the same time usually. These two rather big shortcomings made it harder for Rui to apply Blink the way covert operations required him to. Things like espionage and infiltration required timing, accuracy and precision control. Blink was simply not a technique whose timing could be controlled; this was simply a fact about the fundamental nature of the technique.

Perhaps in the next round of training he would learn some more stealth-oriented techniques.

('No...') He shook his head. ('The next round will be focused purely on head-to-head combat, because of the Martial Festival.')

Most of the competition in the Martial Festival was head-to-head one-on-one fights, stealth was largely unnecessary for the most part. He did not want to waste one his technique slots on learning stealth techniques that he almost certainly wouldn't use.

Although he intended to diversify his Martial Art to other classes, that would have to wait until after the Kandrian Martial Festival.

He turned away from the covert operations missions. Some day he would undertake one of them, today was not that day, however.

He really didn't want to go for a defense-class mission just yet.

to the offense-class section and

walked into the offense-class section. It was no contest between assault-centric missions and a messy hotchpotch

about the offense-class section of missions that

the mission bills, slotted in the shelves of the library had a special insignia inscribed

although most domestic physical disputes did not reach the stage of prosecution, the Kandrian government and the Royal Family would not tolerate the commercialization of violence within the borders of the country. That would simply give rise to tyranny on large

with black market and mafia that provided such services. One less extreme example would be

commissions for unaggressed violence that the Martial Union received were from the Royal

Royal authorization and were

were too dangerous for ordinary law-enforcement officers to arrest. Execution-missions where the

concerned with the underworld and the mafia. It seemed as though the Royal Family was off-loading all this work to the Martial

doubt wanted to retain as much power and control over the Kandrian

the Martial Union, which was sorely vital and important

underworld, however, not so much. The Royal Family had effectively managed to get both of its eyesores to fight against each other by dumping a lot of the workload centered around the suppression of the underworld via

had

that you can't wage war against the

there was demand, there would also be