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.

were even Martial Squires sky-walking in the air to get a bird-eyed view of the area surrounding the

are definitely

of those

Rui peered with interest as all the senators and other dignitaries had taken their place and the chairperson had

was being conducted in the national language of the nation. Rui didn't really have any clue about what was going on. It was a shame because the

was an avenue for him to grow distracted. He hadn't developed the assassination mindset that centered around absolute mental perseverance in the field,

the target, while conscious of the comms device that

passed, and soon the fated

assassination was nearly there. If not for the Mind Mask straining to control his mighty aura, the surrounding humans in

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

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 after nearly three seconds after the message

seconds, but Rui also had to account for

for 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

part until after he got the signal. He had already begun paying deep attention to all the atmospheric

BEEP BEEP BEEP

given him began

The moment had arrived.

had ascended to a higher dimension of time. His mind fired through the Mind Palace as

formed in