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.

feel any of the spirit of exploration that he had expected from a group

appeared that the entire area had been turned into an open

was very rare that something like an assassination industry could be fostered out in the open. They were outright illegal in most parts of human civilization and

way that they did in the

hand out flyers. Perhaps many assassins had come to grow more attached to

so, Rui felt pity for the Silent Shadow. She had gone through all this effort simply for it to fall

wasn't long before he arrived at the specified location, before spreading Riemannian Echo across the entire place. There were plenty of anti-espionage measures taken, but they didn't stop

a man who resembled the image that

His target; Sam Sevian.

Rui felt like quite the stalker, but he doubled

sound of different frequencies and measure how his opponent was going to respond to it, he could rely on existing sound and noise to, at

it couldn't be helped. Until he found out what the man's

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 was not good

making do with it until the man came out, much to Rui's

front of his target. Thankfully, now that the man had exited, Rui could also use Tempestuous Feel

large establishment. Rui paused as he read

[Area Crina]

suspicion as he read that name carefully. Regardless, it appeared that the man was part of the collective hunt for the Silent Shadow. Or the alleged hunt