The Martial Unity

The Martial Union received a flood of all kinds of commissions every day. Among these were those of the antagonistic kind, the kind that fell into the offense class or the shadow class of missions. The offense class dealt with head-on missions that involved aggressing straightforward conflict. The shadow class dealt, in part, with missions with the same goal, but done covertly and secretively.

That was the key difference between the offense and shadow class of missions. Killing someone straightforwardly in front of anyone after rushing towards them directly, or killing someone extremely covertly, secretively, and concealingly.

Rui had completed missions of the former, like when he dragged and murdered King Fujilin in public in front of everyone. However, he had never had the opportunity to undertake missions of the latter kind. Mostly because he never had the necessary skillset.

Now, however, that was no longer true. He had the skillset to kill covertly and concealingly, thanks to Project Sniper.

As the title of the Project explicitly said, it allowed him to snipe his targets from a great distance away. It allowed him to kill his targets from an exceedingly high distance away. Higher than would trigger the alarms of sensory bodyguard Martial Artists keeping a watchful eye around their target of protection.

"That's not all," Rui muttered as he recalled another trait that made it highly suited for sniping assassinations.

The projectile he was launching was the Sonic Bullet technique. The advantage of this technique was that concentrated sound pockets like the Sonic Bullet technique were difficult to detect directly and ahead of time. The reason for this was that a sound wave or pulse did not produce any of its own sound that could be used to detect it ahead of time. Sound could be used to detect and sense other objects and phenomena that produced sound, sounds in and of themselves could not be detected through that same method.

Similar to how light could be used to perceive other objects that reflected or gave off light, light itself was not something that could be perceived in the same manner because it did not give off light itself.

This meant that detecting the Sound Bullet technique after it had already been launched was difficult. The disadvantage of the technique was that its launch was very easy to detect even without sensory techniques. As long as it happened close enough, the breathing and generation of the sound were detectable phenomena as long as they happened close enough. The process to generate such a concentrated sound pulse was very intense and simply could not be missed even by normal humans.

the Sonic Bullet was normally unfit for assassinations. Normally, it

Normally, that is.

to me." Rui

this drawback was

sensory input or 'white noise', because it blended and melted

Sonic

Rui could potentially get away with assassinating people that no Martial Squire could possibly

he did enjoy exercising the results

some time before I can reach a stage where I can use it in missions,

as possible, otherwise, he

at his pocket watch. ('It's about

was right, soon enough,

him as she landed from the sky. "I got your message

come quite close to mastering the technique that I've been training with you. Once I've obtained the

in advance." She told him. "How long do

find out today," Rui replied nonchalantly as he took his