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.

air to get a bird-eyed view of

definitely strict,')

for them, none of those measures were going

the senators and other dignitaries had taken their place and the chairperson had opened

have any clue about what was going on. It was a

him to grow distracted. He hadn't developed the assassination mindset

target, while conscious of the comms device that Fauche

soon the fated time

the assassination was nearly there. If not for the Mind Mask straining to control his mighty aura, the surrounding humans in the area would have long collapsed unconscious. Civilians, who didn't receive training

up and walking to the

address and opening statement of the target to the Senate. The whole point of the operation was to kill him at a time

Rui also had to account for the execution of the ODA system and the time taken to

Rui had long finished the first phase of the ODA system for the speaker's podium, because he knew that that would be where the target 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 launch conditions had

atmospheric conditions. He could not complete that part until after he got the signal. He had already begun paying deep attention to all the atmospheric conditions

BEEP BEEP BEEP

given him began

The moment had arrived.

dilated as time slowed down to nearly a halt, 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