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 drew too much attention within

Normally, that is.

doesn't apply to me."

exempt from this drawback was that he was launching from extraordinary distances

the background of meaningless sensory input or 'white noise', because it blended and melted entirely! This

him to overcome the greatest obstacle preventing the Sonic Bullet from becoming a force to

Rui could potentially get away with assassinating people that no

of murder, he did enjoy exercising the results

stage where I can use it in missions,

possible, otherwise, he would not be able to guarantee that he would get an accurate shot one hundred

this for today.') Rui noted as he looked down at his pocket watch. ('It's about time

was right, soon enough, Squire

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

I've been training with you. Once I've obtained the satisfactory degree of mastery that I'm looking to achieve, the

him. "How long

out today," Rui replied nonchalantly