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 to the Shadow Isles

heaved a sigh as he felt the distant

mind immediately surged into thought as he analyzed and processed his current circumstances, extrapolating

they would

to kill both Martial Seniors in a pair without giving

be fired too quickly in rapid succession, since he

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

kicking into action were most

something that worked against someone in combat mode. That also explained why the Voidreaper needed to engage Senior Jeanno and beat him down before killing him with

important, yet none of them allowed him to prevent his

wasn't too

are they going

couldn't keep the Martial Heart permanently active, that was extremely impractical. They also couldn't keep up a wind-based defensive

the rest of their life in order

An absurd demand.

only while they were inside their homes. The second they stepped

no

did, or could do could allow them to remain and maintain a normal

was one solution,

come back."

on the assassins that left the Shadow Isles. The ones that stayed back knew that their former colleagues and seekers had gotten away

an attractive choice if there was anything that held them back, it would be the reason they came to the Shadow Isles in the first

The Silent Shadow.