The Martial Unity

"So, to reiterate the plan." Rui continued. "We have Kane infiltrate the research facility sometime prior the day of the assault and have him keep a close eye on the location of the comms and the leaders of the facility."

"Then, when the next supply shipment is enroute, we attack it and kill most of its occupants. Either we keep the driver alive or replace him with one of ourselves. Then show them the documents and once they go to the back to check up on the supply goods, we ambush them." Rui explained. "During the shipment unloading and docking, there were only two Martial Apprentices who stood guard during the entire process. If we gang up on them and overwhelm them quickly with a numbers advantage and the element of surprise, we're doing very well."

He turned to Fae. "The element of surprise is especially important and powerful. With the element of surprise, you should successfully be able to land your Whirlpool attack on one of them and I should be able to land my Stinger successfully. Once that's done, their hope of survival is absolutely zero. Taking them out early means we get to fight the remaining four Martial Apprentices with a five-on-four advantage, that should be quite solidly in our favour as well."

"While we're launching an ambush from the outside, Kane sabotages communications and leadership which shouldn't take more than a minute given his prowess. He can also stall the four Martial Apprentices from entering, although that can be dangerous. However, as long as it's merely stalling and distracting, and he's careful, he should be able to manage. The Void Step technique is overpowered, and he's grown stronger since mastering it."

"Once we enter, we regroup with Kane and fight the remaining the four Martial Apprentices while securing the secret entrance to the research facility so that none of them leave and begin our clean-up operation thoroughly and finish up the job as fast as possible, secure the data and leave."

Rui inhaled lightly at the end of the lecture. "This will be the general gist of the plan, any suggestions? Critiques? Questions? Note that the plan is tentative, until we scour through the intelligence Kane brings back, we can't be as certain as we'd like."

"Even if we sabotage the communications, won't the fact that the convoy shipping the supplies to the research facility did not return to wherever it was dispatched from raise alarms?" Hever asked. "They would certainly try to track the location of the convoy if it doesn't return."

"That's definitely true, however, we are geographically far away from even the closest population center, which means the convoy is expected to take several hours to return back to the dispatch location. By the time the time any measures are taken due to the convoy being late, we will have long completed the mission and left the research facility." Rui told them. "It's quite likely there's a verification report sent by the facility to whatever executive branch is responsible for the supply shipments. We need to begin our ambush after the report is sent or send the fake report ourselves. The details of which will be ironed out once Kane returns."

The four, no, three of them discussed the plan and thought it through thoroughly. A few days passed as another shipment of supplies arrived and Kane was able to escape once they opened up the secret entrance once more.

he regrouped with the rest of his team,

"Later! I'm sleeping first!" Kane barked at

forgot he hadn't slept in a while and had also been keeping the Void Step

after ten hours of sleep that Kane finally awoke from his slumber. "Oh man... That was horrific, I never want to

by people who commission you and the Martial Union as well." Rui scoffed. "Why do you think you were assigned to this mission? Your stealth is

as Kane groaned loudly, earning chides

detailed report first." Rui told

a deep breath as he began narrating

inspected the supply goods before sending the goods down a heavily guarded elevator. The two Martial Apprentices who had overseen the unloading and docking of the

in the actual research facility below. Out of which Kane

Rui asked. "Was the grade-ten Martial Apprentice

the grade-ten Apprentice. He was probably

"Why not?"

never opened, not even

eyes narrowed. "The simplest explanation is that the most important and vital research is ongoing

what I though too." Kane