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?"

told him. "When do you

immediately," Rui told her. "But your condition complicates it a little bit, but I intend to end it

please let me know and I will do my

nodded. "Is there anything else you

wanted to cover." She told

my leave." Rui got

after having exchanged farewells with

you think Surn, Azazel?" She asked the

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

sighed. "Had I known he was that much stronger than us, I

you think are the odds

would no longer have any chance of doing it again. The king would take extreme measures to protect himself, and the

the Kingdom of Dermile was poor, hiring Martial Squires from the Kandrian Martial Union, that too with international taxes, was not cheap. Services tended to be exponentially more expensive in richer countries compared to poorer countries, the commission fee for even a low-grade

was going to work or not. But after experiencing the momentary horrific fear that Rui generated in her and her subordinates, she realized that the Martial Union wasn't messing around when it said it guaranteed that Martial Artists who happened to

and hope." She said. "The preparations

take him to actually complete the

time for when the king is exposed to enough eyes and ears that his death cannot be concealed." Surn voiced a reasonable

he should likely take at least

time trying to figure out how he would go