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.

Martial Squires sky-walking in the air to get a bird-eyed

are definitely

of those measures

Rui peered with interest as all the senators and other dignitaries

national language of the nation. Rui didn't really have any clue about what was going on. It was a shame because the commission had given him some interest in the contents of the hearing, to

for him to grow distracted. He hadn't developed the assassination mindset that centered around absolute mental perseverance in the field, nor

to stay focused. Focused on the target, while conscious of the

passed, and soon the fated time

the estimated time for 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.

up and walking to the

the cue for Rui 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

than three seconds, but Rui also had to account for

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 long been well figured

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 them into the protocols of the

BEEP BEEP BEEP

that Fauche had given him began beeping in his

The moment had arrived.

pupils 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

formed in his