The Martial Unity

"Are you sure the security is adequate?" A bald bearded man asked, glancing at the Martial Apprentice sitting opposite to him in the carriage.

"Do not worry, My lord." The Martial Apprentice replied. "Our Earthen Shieldforger party is one of the most reputed bodyguard parties in the Karjakin Confederate. We have a well-balanced team of Martial Artists, and most importantly, me, the most powerful defensive Martial Apprentice in the entire region as well as an excellent sensory Martial Apprentice here." He said, patting the Martial Apprentice sitting beside him.

"Hm." The man nodded. "That's good to hear."

"Still, I have to say. It's an honor to be assigned as the guard of a feudal lord like yourself, lord Faishon." The defensive Martial Apprentice smiled.

"Mm. It is an important and consequently risky occasion. I am enroute to declare war. There are those who oppose war. The pacificists will no doubt attempt to kill me, if they know about this journey. Fortunately, I have all of you. They should be unable to successfully take my life en route to the Haraul Region." He replied.

Feudal lord Faishon Durant was a feudal lord of the Karjakin Confederate, a tiny sovereign state some distance away from the Kandrian Empire. The Karjakin Confederate was a state rife with internal conflict. Due to its nature as a confederate state, its political power was divided among many militaristic leaders known as feudal lords.

The state was always on the brink of civil war over the issue of monopoly and distribution of resources.

Recently, it was pushed over the brink when an irreconcilable disagreement caused one of the feudal leaders to decide to declare war.

Feudal lord Faishon Durant. He was currently en route to the Region ruled by another like-minded feudal lord.

However, he wasn't a fool. The pacifist faction formed by feudal lords with the goal of settling disagreements through peaceful means would do everything in their power to prevent him from sparking war.

Including ambushing and killing him.

powerful and

nine elite Martial Apprentices led by a vaunted defensive Martial Apprentice that the Martial Union had evaluated as the equivalent

should have possibly gone

Should, being the keyword.

sitting beside the defensive Martial Apprentice froze.

heightened his alertness as he

eyes before his opening them with a pale face, turning to the ceiling of

BOOM!

crushed it. The sensory Martial Apprentice was

corpse of feudal lord Faishon in

through his body as he looked around, looking for the killer. "WHERE IS

had been able to find so much as a peep of the

A kilometer away;

BOOM!

sighed as he walked out of the crater.

by firing downwards and using it as a propeller system, similar to a rocket, to reach directly above the carriage of the target of his mission and

the feudal lord Faishon through the heavy-duty bodyguards the

maneuvering through a similar method to an extremely

shrugged, consoling himself. He pulled out the mission tracker device

back home because of a message he had

[I've finished.]