The Martial Unity

"But what can we do?" One chairman sighed. "Our organizations are falling apart."

"We can't afford to compete with each other." Another remarked. "No, we can't even afford to operate separately anymore."

That was a strange remark. "What do you mean?"

"I'm saying that we must merge our organizations into one." The man resolutely declared, sending a wave of surprise across the many human leaders. "Rather, we must dissolve our respect assassination organizations and create a single brand new one from scratch. By pooling our remaining resources, inventory, territory, and manpower, we can sustain the assassination supply market. We can own it! We can rule the Shadow Isles together."

This radical idea would have been preposterous to suggest in the past and would have earned him the scorn of everybody in the room.

Yet this time, everybody remained silent in consideration. Their circumstances had deteriorated to such a degree that even such a radical idea seemed rather tame in comparison.

"There are some shortcomings but...it is not without merit." One man remarked.

"The fact of the matter is that there is a massive demand for assassination services in the Derschek Region." The man boldly continued. "The Voidreaper does not change that. However, due to the decrease in the number of Martial Artist assassins, especially Martial Seniors, supply of assassination services has grown scarcer. Which means we can charge significantly more for every commission. Our profit margins will skyrocket. If we merge into a single organization, then we will be able to maintain prices as high as we need them to be without having to compete with each other for prices."

them and purchase from their competitors had always been one of the biggest reasons that each of them had to be careful about their

true if there was only one assassination supplier in the Shadow Isles. They could regulate the prices

option. Right now, their greatest priority was damage mitigation. As long as they could mitigate the damage by the

to make sure that

for their new singular organization. By the end of the meeting, all of the leaders of the various assassination organizations had come to a

to stay back while the others didn't. "You will be the pillars of our

taking their roles seriously. Inwardly, they gloated at their peers who had departed, allowing them to take such a central

meeting in a hurry. They had a lot of work

creating a brand-new organization that was effectively the fusion of many other smaller organizations. A lot of matters and tasks had to be completed and

and hierarchy, efficient and effective assimilation of the workforces of the

meantime, word of yet another wave of Martial Seniors emigrating spread across the Shadow Isles. It did not take an intelligence agency to figure out that

in the Shadow Isles. Although the Voidreaper had yet to target Squire-level and Apprentice-level

did, it would be too late

leaving the assassination supply market in a greater predicament than it had ever been since the dawn of the market when the Silent Shadow announced

event in the region, drawing attention from not just