The Martial Unity

"The sooner I land a death blow, the likelier that they will be unable to recuperate. If I act after this new united organization is created and settled in, then eradicating the assassination sector will be that much harder." Rui keenly concluded. "What's the timeline for the development of this new organization?"

"About two weeks." Professor Carl. "That is abnormally fast, but they are aware that they don't have much time left before everything completely unravels and falls apart. They're choosing decisiveness over caution, they can't really afford the luxury of the latter at the moment."

"Hm... It's a shame because that's a tad bit insufficient." Rui winced a little. "Manageable though. I'd need to start making preparations immediately. Are they holding a sort of inauguration ceremony?"

"Just a small announcement speech. They're not big on ceremony, you see."

"Well, are the three Martial Seniors who are sticking around going to be there?"

"Well, yes." Professor Carl replied. "Why?"

"That's perfect," Rui smirked. "I need to go, I have preparations to make."

Two weeks was barely enough time to make super-solid predictive models, it was actually a day short. But Rui was sure he could make do with that slight inadequacy.

He needed to get to work immediately.

In all the reports that he had gotten from the Beggar's Sect, none of them talked about any measures taken to protect the three Martial Seniors from the Voidreaper, aside from temporarily prohibiting them from any operations in the Derschek Region.

I only assassinate in the Derschek Region.' Rui mused. 'Well,

place that was truly dangerous to the assassins that it held. And he was going to accomplish that by violently killing

In front of everybody.

to cause

to

happen if they continued to remain a part of

Senior. Causing harm was a specialty he excelled at. The full power of a Martial Senior could do untold damage to a region across a fight. Furthermore, this would be collateral damage, thus the Panamic Martial Federation would have no issue

and unprovoked hostility against Martial Artists of the Lower Realms. It did not aim to hamper Martial Seniors in pursuing their own peers by

Rui's plan was simple.

could, kill the remaining in a fight. He was not too bothered by the

most likely accomplish the goal. Even a single assassination would be crushing, because it would mean that Rui could assassinate them even in

other two and causing mass damage was something that would forever crush any sense of trust, reliance, and dependability

as he could prepare as much as he possibly could in

the Beggar's Sect to withdraw its agents from the

inadvertently harm the Beggar's Sect's people, potentially souring his relationship with his new business partner. Thankfully, they could leave the Shadow Isles without revealing their identities since many people were already leaving, making it easy

issue left was if he could only assassinate one was forced

"Manageable..." Rui murmured.

over the man was extremely high. Not only because he started off at a