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.

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

definitely strict,')

none of those measures were going to

peered with interest as all the senators and other dignitaries

about what was going on. It was a shame because the commission had given him some interest in the contents of the hearing, to gain a deeper understanding of why Fauche chose to

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

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

and soon

more severe and solemn as 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. Civilians, who didn't receive training to resist mental pressure, did not have any way of not succumbing to

getting 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 in

sound could travel nine hundred meters in less than three seconds, but Rui also had to account for the execution of the ODA system and the time taken to physically launch

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

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 second phase of the ODA system any

BEEP BEEP BEEP

given him began beeping

The moment had arrived.

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

formed