The Martial Unity

Area Crina was an area at the center of the Shadow Isles and as well as the name of an intelligence organization in that area established by the Crina Foundation. An organization set up by a wealthy businesswoman who had made it her life's goal to find the Silent Shadow. She set up a cooperative and charitable intelligence agency that cooperated and partnered with Martial Artists who also sought the Silent Shadow.

Apparently, most assassins that came to the Shadow Isles partnered with Area Crina to find the Silent Shadow.

No one why Chairwoman Crina cared so much to find the Martial Master, but she in a sense led the collective effort in the Shadow Isles to find the Silent Shadow.

Rui found this to be incredibly strange. Nonetheless, it was the truth. She was probably the reason that so many Martial Artists veered towards hunting for the Silent Shadow.

It took him quite a lot of time, but he finally reached the end of the totality of the investigative report and meta-analysis provided by the Beggar's Sect.

It gave him a good idea of what not to do.

In fact, he had come up with several rules.

First, he needed to forget about finding the Silent Shadow. It was hopeless. He was not arrogant enough to think that his individual efforts were enough to outmatch countless assassins, the Beggar's Sect, and Area Crina.

Second, he needed to get a good understanding of what it was that the Silent Shadow sought from her pupils. He was certain that she had some criteria, and it most likely wasn't just a matter of being a powerful assassin.

According to the Beggar's Sect, many particularly powerful assassins of even the Senior Realm had arrived at the Silent Isles nearly a decade ago and had yet to find the Martial Master.

was simply a matter of being powerful, then one would expect the top assassins in the Shadow Isles

highly doubted it was a matter of age, experience, or any other specific performance parameter based on the data that he had just

Martial Seniors, Squires, and Apprentices across the Shadow Isles who had spent a long time

even the best of them that had spent

probability was not low that, as opposed to them being inadequate, there was a fundamental

failing to get right. At least, as far as

mind went back to his earlier

assassinated. They were specialists who were entirely

ought to eliminate all the hurdles that impeded their path, rather than take a different path. Perhaps true assassins ought to accomplish their

what was the Silent Shadow like when she

to

put it on

was insane." The professor casually remarked without looking up from his work. "It was as though she was a thoughtless killing machine that could do nothing but kill. That did nothing

"There was once where she had caused a client some problems by killing too much, causing the client to suffer hostility

had

Sage who tried

still alive,"

after two centuries acting as an assassin." The professor

the professor's words about her modus operandi while she was active lent credence to his theory. An assassin who solved every single problem