The Martial Unity

Rui made his way through the island with his badge pinned to his chest, making it clear to the Beggar's Sect that he was looking for them.

A child walked up to him, handing him a slip of paper. "I believe you wanted this, mister."

Rui sighed, accepting the slip before watching the child scamper away melancholically.

On the slip of paper were numbers, one corresponding to the island number, and the other corresponding to the area code of the island. He also got more specific street coordinates, ensuring that he could pinpoint the man's location.

'Island Fourteen, and area twenty-nine.' Rui noted, before immediately heading in the direction of the area.

He had memorized a map of the entirety of the Shadow Isles, thus he was perfectly comfortable walking through the archipelago. The deeper he went into the archipelago, the denser the activity got. Despite it being a collection of islands, he didn't see a single fishing boat or line from people along the coasts.

It appeared that they had been scared off by the various assassins that increasingly began dominating the archipelago. He also couldn't feel any degree of political control from the Derschek Region. He suspected that that hadn't always been the case.

Prior to the arrival of the Silent Shadow, the region would have undoubtedly been a strategic location that could serve as a powerful outpost location for maritime trading and seafare.

Yet the claim of a notoriously powerful Martial Master assassin made the entire archipelago immediately lose all its allure. No one in the Derschek Region had the capital to make an enemy of out of a Martial Master.

Rui made his way through, he came across endless groups of assassins offering assassination commissions. Yet he couldn't feel any of the spirit of

had been turned into an open assassination

could be fostered out in the open. They were outright illegal in most parts

same way that they did in the Kandrian Empire, forming the underworld of

assassins had come to grow

had gone through all

before he arrived at the specified location, before spreading Riemannian Echo across the entire place.

resembled the image that Rui had

His target; Sam Sevian.

currently inside a residential building, lying down on a bed. Rui felt like quite the stalker, but he doubled down, taking a seat inside

sound of different frequencies and measure how his opponent was going to respond to it, he could

he found out what

were long periods of supervision over the man, ruling out frequency by frequency as he paid attention to the acoustic dynamics within the room. It was especially difficult because Riemannian Echo had great range and penetrative ability, but it

he had some difficulty making do with it until the man came out, much to Rui's relief, before heading off somewhere

was far too unwilling to reveal his status in front of his target. Thankfully, now that the man had exited, Rui could also use Tempestuous Feel to get a much better

man finally stopped sky-walking to enter a large establishment. Rui paused

[Area Crina]

appeared that the man was part of the collective hunt for the Silent Shadow.