The Martial Unity

If that was the case, then he just needed to refine his ideas a little bit more and tie them back to the observations he made.

"Ah, the intelligence you requested has arrived." Professor Carl remarked as the staff member entered the office, with a pile of documents.

Rui's attention was drawn towards them. Even if they did not contain information on those that were successfully accepted, he could look at those that definitely failed, and avoid making their mistakes.

Those that failed seemed to continue going down that path. From their point of view, their lack of failure was due to the difficulty of the test, not because they were going down the wrong path.

Their lust for obtaining a legacy of one of the most renowned Martial Master assassins in the world was extremely high, it had clouded their judgment, making them choose to go about it in ways that were perhaps unbecoming of an assassin in the eyes of the Silent Shadow.

Or at least, that was what Rui had come to suspect after giving it some deep thought.

"I should mention that you cannot take these documents away with you." Professor Carl remarked, drawing his attention. "They contain too many sensitive details of our investigative process. You may refer to them here at any time, or you may rely on that handy memory trick of yours."

disclosed that he had a handy memory trick, but he wasn't even surprised that the Beggar's Sect had come to learn of this. They had proven their ability to learn

remarked, before taking the large pile of documents over to a different

and avenues, each assigned its own division. There was an entire division dedicated to gathering and analyzing second-hand intelligence of all kinds, from other intelligence brokers to

disguise. Rui's eyes widened in shock as he read through the details and the degree to which the Beggar's Sect looked into every

systematically looked into millions of individuals within the Shadow Isles and conducted analyses on every single one of them. The sheer manpower needed to even dare to go to such lengths was something that was probably unique to the

they hadn't included a report of every single individual inside the Shadow Isles. As big as his Mind Palace was, not even he was sure

as a whole. Based on the investigative reports

feat, yet one that also did not yield any

making it impossible to find her using brute force unless one possessed

that decided to exert themselves to locate her in one go, then it was not something

But the issue was that it probably wasn't worth it. In the first place, the Beggar's Sect predominantly relied on the power of ordinary

need for the Beggar's Sect to find her. The reason

on the Silent Shadow would have been worth a fortune, and given the sheer number of powerful assassins in the Shadow Isles that desperately wanted it,

justify using strategic resources. It didn't matter anyway, since