The Martial Unity

The air was tense. Rui heaved a deep sigh as he narrowed his eyes, focusing. He was on a rooftop in the Verkens Kingdom, about sixteen kilometers away from his target; Sam Sevian.

It had taken some time and a member of the Beggar's Sect, feigning as a street musician, but he had grown certain of the man's innate resonance frequencies, while also having developed a predictive model of the man over time.

He had everything he needed.

Now, all he needed was the earliest opportunity when Senior Sam left the Shadow Isles and headed towards the Derschek Region to complete the latest commission that he had undertaken from a relative of King Verkens.

As time passed, Rui grew increasingly sharp.

It wasn't long before the moment had arrived. Rui heaved a deep sigh before activating his Martial Heart.

BADUMP!

Instantly, all of his senses peaked to the maximum as they received active empowerment from the Martial Heart. Streaks of glowing red lines emerged from his head spreading across his flesh as he resembled a mountain laden with streams of lava, ready to erupt at any moment.

He focused his senses on his target as he activated the Void Pathfinder technique

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM

Rui fired three Mighty Roar Flash Blasts of three different frequencies and speeds that flashed across the air, crossing the distance in less than two seconds.

It was nigh instantaneous, yet from his perspective, it took forever. He waited incredibly long to watch his attacks cross a huge distance. He didn't want to deactivate his Martial Heart since he needed it to make a quick getaway if he did get caught.

need it after all. The attack hit true and center, smoothly passing through his skull before his eyes rolled backward and his body went limp, falling

THUD

corpse of the Martial Senior

as he wanted to celebrate, he knew that he needed to get out

discovered after Rui left the kingdom, eventually reaching the Beggar's Sect before proudly

that the professor was

"If it's this easy for you to kill

of a deal it became in the following days. According to the reports from

Senior Sam Sevian was not the strongest Martial Senior, he was still a full-fledged Martial

anything less than a Martial Senior. No one bought the idea that a Martial Squire could have done him off before his Martial Heart

the idea that he had succumbed to some health condition. The Martial Body was extremely hard to kill through

was only one conclusion that the

He had been assassinated.

when he was about to begin working on a commission

assassins. Most of the Martial Senior assassins that operated in this region resided in the Shadow Isles, and all of them were people who migrated to the Shadow Isles looking for

most likely a Martial Senior assassin

Seniors complained. They were not friends and were competitors, in fact. Yet the sheer inexplicability of his death was something that many of them found

manner of killing that was largely

Poison, decapitation, strangulation, suffocation.

to many, they were a small community and kept an eye on

fact that the cause of Sam's death had not been identified was surprising. The fact that there were no signs

so far superior to him that they could get it done

The ideal assassination.