The Martial Unity

A little under three days passed.

Rui spent most of the time in the Republic of Menrea, fleshing out his contingencies as he spent his time observing the target Herguson Meine from a good distance away with the help of his two sensory techniques. He had identified the man's tics and other movements that could be used to predict his movements ahead of time.

All the preparations had been completed.

It was time.

There were only a few hours to go before the estimated time of assassination provided by Fauche.

"That'll do." Rui quickly locked the door to the roof of the house he had chosen to reside on.

He lay flat on the ground as he observed the Senate Hearing commencing.

The security measures were quite accurate to the information provided by the Martial union and by Fauche. Rui had committed all of them to memory.

The outer layer patrolled the Capitol block, scanning the area with their senses. The senses of a Martial Squire were sharp even if one did not learn sensory techniques. They could all be used to ensure that there were no unauthorized intruders within the Capitol block.

Rui could sense that, as informed, there were multiple security check-ins and verifications at multiple levels before access to the Senate Hall.

in the air to get a bird-eyed view of the area

definitely strict,')

those measures were going to be

and other dignitaries had taken their place

nation. Rui didn't really have any clue about what was going on. It was a shame because

better that there was an avenue for him to grow distracted. He hadn't developed the assassination mindset that centered around absolute

while conscious of the comms device that Fauche

and soon the fated

straining to control his mighty aura, the surrounding humans in the area would have long collapsed unconscious. Civilians, who didn't receive training to resist mental pressure, did not

he's getting up and walking to the speaker's platform.') Rui's eyes

to be ready to fire at any time. The assassination would occur during the address and opening statement of the target to the Senate. The whole point of the operation was to kill him at a time in his speech that would inevitably throw suspicion on the president. Rui had already informed Fauche that the shot would land only

all, sound could travel nine hundred meters in less than three seconds, but Rui also had to account for the

his platform would be standing. Thus, all of the calculations of the distance between them, the equations of propagation of the wave trajectory, and the launch conditions

ODA system that tackled atmospheric conditions. He could not complete that part until after he got the signal. He had already begun paying deep

BEEP BEEP BEEP

that Fauche had given him began beeping in

The moment had arrived.

it was as though his consciousness had ascended to a higher dimension of time. His mind fired through the Mind Palace as remarkable amounts of information flushed through the calculations entailed by

formed in