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.

didn't need it after all. The attack hit true and center, smoothly passing through his skull before his

THUD

the Martial

much as he wanted to celebrate, he knew that he needed to get out of here

left the kingdom, eventually reaching the Beggar's Sect before proudly declaring the first operation

professor was already aware of

murmured, dumbfounded. "If it's this easy

big of a deal it became in the following days. According to the reports from the Beggar's Sect, the

the strongest Martial Senior, he was still a full-fledged

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

idea that he had succumbed to some health condition. The Martial Body was extremely hard to kill through disease or compromised health. Furthermore, Senior Sam

conclusion that the assassination community at

He had been assassinated.

when he was about to begin working on

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 of them were people

most likely a Martial Senior assassin of the

They were not friends and were competitors, in fact. Yet the sheer inexplicability of his death

assassin had a signature. A manner of killing

Poison, decapitation, strangulation, suffocation.

inscrutable to many, they were

Sam's death had not been identified was surprising. The fact that there were no signs of struggle, no signs of resistance, no signs of conflict

him that they could get it done instantly without

The ideal assassination.