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.

passing through his skull before

THUD

of the

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

after Rui left the kingdom, eventually reaching

professor was already aware of his

this easy for you to kill a

became in the following days. According to the reports from the Beggar's Sect, the assassination community at large was shell-shocked at the abrupt death

strongest Martial Senior, he was

that a Martial Squire could have done him off before

Martial Body was extremely hard to kill through disease or compromised health.

only one conclusion that the

He had been assassinated.

fact that he was taken out when he was about to begin working

Region, since there were almost no native Senior-level assassins. Most of the Martial Senior assassins that operated in this region resided in the Shadow Isles, and all

was most likely a Martial Senior assassin of the

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

had a signature. A manner of killing that

Poison, decapitation, strangulation, suffocation.

their identities as assassins were inscrutable to many, they were a small community and kept an eye

that there

superior to him

The ideal assassination.