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

are definitely

for them, none of those

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

clue about what was going on. It was a shame because the commission had given him some interest in

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

the target, while

soon the fated time

aura, the

up and walking to the

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.

three seconds, but Rui also had to account for the execution of the ODA system and the time taken to physically launch

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

second phase of the ODA system that tackled 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 ready to input

BEEP BEEP BEEP

device that Fauche had given

The moment had arrived.

a halt, it was as though his consciousness had ascended to a higher dimension of time. His mind fired through

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