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 area

measures are definitely strict,') Rui

for them, none of those measures were going

starting.') Rui peered with interest as all the senators and other dignitaries had taken their place

clue about what was going on. It was a shame because the commission

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

stay focused. Focused on the target, while conscious of the comms device that Fauche

passed, and soon the fated time

the surrounding humans in

he's getting up and walking 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

seconds, but Rui also had to account for

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,

signal. He had already begun paying deep attention to all the atmospheric conditions ready to input them into the protocols of the second

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Fauche had given

The moment had arrived.

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

image formed in