The Martial Unity

"That will be two thousand Martial credits."

"You can debit it from my account," Rui replied as he picked up the product he just purchased.

[VXL-100 Monocular]

This was a rather high-quality monocular that Rui had purchased just in case he needed it. Although he was quite confident that he wouldn't, he still decided to err on the side of caution.

That wasn't the only thing he had chosen to purchase. He had also purchased several clothes that were native to the Republic of Menrea and part of their ethnic wear. Although he certainly would stand out, it was better than outright being detected as a Martial Artist of the Kandrian Empire.

He immediately headed down to the dispatch facility after changing into those clothes, finishing the pre-mission protocols before heading out.

His destination? The Republic of Menrea.

It had been only two hours since his conversation with Fauche Vigil had concluded. The Senate hearing was a little under three days away, he had plenty of time. Had it been an ordinary mission, he might have even deigned to leave later rather than waste precious time doing nothing.

However, this wasn't an ordinary mission.

he would be testing the pathfinder technique in the field for the first time. Furthermore, he had staked a lot on the success

going to have to be extra careful.')

before the time for the actual assassination came through. First, he needed to find an appropriate spot

elevation as the target, as differences in elevation increase the distance between him and the target and forced him to shoot at an angle. Not that he couldn't do the latter and still succeed, but he didn't want

the senate hearing was actually at ground level, thus he didn't

Squires of the Republic of Menrea, according to

Empire, which was what Rui underwent, but their techniques were

new techniques he had developed and the

as he did at all, and thus was only a grade-ten technique by Apprentice standards,

to the Mind Switch technique. He could probably crush any individual martial Squire of the Republic of Menrea in a head-on fight. The issue was if he got surrounded by a large number of them.

all of the Martial Squires assigned to protect the target, and there would be a significant gap between them since he would be sniping his target from a long distance away and would begin running away the second he succeeded. There was surely no way that

them was that fast, Rui wasn't concerned with a single Martial

enforcing a shutdown of transit in and out of the country, and perhaps a strengthened border control, but that wasn't something Rui was

thoroughly guarded, and even if Rui encountered a stationed garrison, they were