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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."

surprised that the Beggar's Sect

not a problem," Rui remarked, before taking the large pile of

her through various means 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 even rumors and

Silent Shadow in 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 single

them. The sheer manpower needed to even

Isles. As big as his Mind Palace was, not even he was sure if

an extremely precise and accurate layout of the Shadow Isles as a whole. Based on the

not yield any clues about the location

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

Martial Master or Martial Artist of a higher Realm that decided to exert themselves to locate her in one go,

wanted, they could probably find her by expending such powerful means. 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

fulfilled the latter condition, but it did not fulfill the former condition. There was no burning need for the Beggar's Sect to

have been worth a fortune, and given the sheer number

failed venture did not justify using strategic resources. It didn't matter anyway, since Rui himself would never gain access to such