The Martial Unity

Unfortunately, they couldn't do anything. They quickly headed to gather the corpses of their peers.

Yet the Martial Seniors of the Duchy had other ideas.

"Those corpses belong to us." They growled. "They will be displayed to our people."

"You think we're just going to give you them?" A Senior assassin snorted. "You're lucky we're not killing you."

The tension spiked between the two forces.

"How about we each take one?" One of the Martial Seniors from the duchy proposed.

This wasn't an unattractive idea. None of them wanted to fight at the moment. The assassins from the Shadow Isles were most afraid of the Voidreaper coming for them at any moment.

The buddy system proved to be entirely useless against the Voidreaper as he could comfortably demolish duos. Even if he couldn't kill both of them in a pair, one was guaranteed to die, which meant that there was a chance that any of them could die at any moment.

This was especially the case since he wasn't that far from this location.

Perhaps he was watching them right now, preparing to take a shot.

Just the thought of it sent a chill down their spines. It made them want to end this conflict and get out of there.

"Deal." The assassins remarked. "We'll take this one. No compromises there."

quickly collected Senior Jeanno's body before heading back

a sigh as he felt the distant presence

and processed his current circumstances, extrapolating and

was that they would

no way to kill both Martial Seniors in a

quickly in rapid succession, since he

not cleanly assassinate his opponent using Death's Sympathy when they had active wind-based defenses up. This was a little bit

wind-based defenses kicking into

there, it could be further inferred that the technique was exclusively an assassination tool and not something that worked against someone in combat mode. That also explained why the Voidreaper needed to engage Senior Jeanno and beat

important, yet none of them allowed him to

wasn't

are they going

impractical. They also couldn't keep up a wind-based defensive technique all the time either. That was quite impractical as well, even with

someone to keep jogging for the rest of their life in order to

An absurd demand.

around their residential area. However, that protected them only while they were inside their homes. The second they stepped out, they

was no

or could do could allow them to remain and maintain a

one solution, of

and never come back." Rui

putting so much as a scratch on the assassins that left the Shadow Isles. The ones that stayed back knew that their former colleagues and seekers had gotten away harmlessly

anything that held them back, it would be the reason they came to the

The Silent Shadow.