The Martial Unity

It wasn't long before Rui exited the Ferendul Republic and began traveling east. He had already ruled out primordial seed. However, now he needed to choose between mental or assassination techniques.

He recalled the two Masters that were documented in the intelligence that Sian had documented for him.

He was particularly interested in them above the other potential avenues of growth.

The issue was that not only were there not many alluring avenues to train mental and assassination techniques like there were for primary fields of combat, but in addition, Rui was unfit to train in them.

It was no different from an amateur who didn't know how to properly throw an attack trying to train in the Umiana Trench. One needed to have a foundation before one could even think about going to a place like the Umiana Trench.

That was why he was interested in building up a foundation before he considered going to these training avenues. The best way to do that was to develop some mental and assassination techniques and add them to his Martial Art.

Being trained by some of the greatest authorities in those fields that he could possibly have access to was definitely better than trying to purchase some random mental techniques without the corresponding training resources for that technique, trying to piece their core principles together to create a new technique.

Of course, it wasn't going to be easy at all.

Martial Masters, and that was to be expected. Considering how few they chose as pupils versus how many tried to get

to

conflicted. He had a greater affinity for

all, not challenge his security measures to a duel. Still, he knew

Silent Shadow since her

nearly two centuries as an assassin. It was said that the number of people she had assassinated was enough to populate an entire country. It was not an exaggeration to say that across her life, she had impacted the

residing in the Ghana Archipelago, also known as the Shadow Isles, a group of islands in the Sirana Gulf of the Vanema Ocean. Yet despite the public knowledge that the notorious and feared Martial Master resided in the Shadow

people and Martial Artists who were part of the covert and assassination world came to the Shadow Isles in hopes of being

could not even find her, let alone try to persuade her to impart even a fraction of

heard that, a

"It's a test."

tutelage. Given that she was a Martial Master assassin, hiding would be effortlessly easy for

that her

because not even the Beggar's

her general location is all we can offer, I'm afraid."

high indirect praise from the Beggar's Sect, which had thus far seemed almost nigh-omniscient when it came to matters across the continent. The fact that Master Reina Cara had managed to successfully evade the omnipresent