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

he felt the

thought as he analyzed and processed

inevitable outcome was that they would

predictions of inevitable outcomes. There was no way to kill both Martial Seniors in a pair without

could conclude that his technique could not be fired too quickly in rapid succession, since he wasn't able to land a Death's Sympathy before the man's

derived was the fact that he could not cleanly assassinate his opponent using Death's Sympathy when they had active wind-based defenses up. This was a little bit more complex, but they most likely knew

it wouldn't take them long to conclude that those wind-based defenses kicking into action were most likely

assassination tool and not something that worked against someone in combat mode. That also explained why the Voidreaper needed to engage

tactics and strategies to prevent the disclosure of this strategically important, yet none of them

wasn't

they going

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

jogging for the rest of

An absurd demand.

wind-based defenses around their residential area. However, that protected them only while

no practical

do could allow them to remain and

was one solution, of

and never come

assassins that left the Shadow Isles. The ones that stayed

was anything that held them back, it

The Silent Shadow.