The Martial Unity

She had regained her composure rapidly, earlier than her Martial Apprentice aids. Her fortitude earned Rui's respect, she was quite impressive for regaining her calm.

"My apologies," She told him.

While she did not possess the sensitivity to understand exactly what the pressure Rui exerted on her meant about his power, she could make indirect inferences about how strong he was by looking at the state that her subordinates were in.

Her subordinates were not weak or ordinary Martial Apprentices by any means. The fact that they had such exaggerated reactions to his aura meant that he was likely more than just heads and shoulders above them. That put her at ease that he was indeed qualified to complete the mission.

"No worries," Rui replied. "Is that all you wished to talk to me about?"

"I wanted to make a request," She told him. "I want you to kill him publicly."

Rui raised an eyebrow under his mask. It was an odd request since most assassination commissions were requested to be done covertly normally, rather than publicly. But Rui now understood the reason why this mission wasn't in the shadow class section. All shadow class missions needed to be covert in nature, and any mission that didn't fulfill this condition, no matter what, was immediately excluded.

Thus, she had likely specified that she did not want a covert mission where the death would be silent and swift. As for why she wanted a public death, Rui could think of several reasons, but it didn't matter.

"...That can be done." Rui straightforwardly said. "How public do you want his death to be?"

"As public as possible." She told him.

"Hm... Alright." Rui eventually agreed. "Is there anything else?"

all." She told him.

my plan was to begin immediately," Rui told her. "But your condition complicates it a little bit, but I intend

"Understood. If you need any help of any sort, please let me know and I will do

"Is there anything else you wanted

I wanted

take my leave." Rui

after having

asked the two of her subordinates once he

is... very strong," Surn admitted. "This is my first time seeing a Martial Squire's aura, and they are much stronger than I had

he was that much stronger than us, I would not have been nearly as cocky as

are the odds that he will smoothly complete the

would happen if there was a failure. If Rui failed, then she would no longer have any chance of doing it again. The

cheap. Services tended to be exponentially more expensive in richer countries compared to poorer countries, the commission fee for even a low-grade Martial Squire was absurdly expensive by the standards of the Kingdom

incredibly paranoid about whether Rui was qualified to handle the mission, and whether the seemingly hazardous strategy of just running inside and killing him was going to work or not. But after experiencing the momentary horrific fear that Rui generated in her and her subordinates, she realized

wait and hope." She said. "The preparations for

will it take him to

he has to gain a good understanding of the king's schedule and find a good time for when the king is exposed to enough eyes and ears that his death

She nodded. "Which means he should likely take at

lot of time trying to figure out how he would go about it as they traveled back to