The Martial Unity

"And what might that be?" Rui asked. "I hope you're not going to ask me to shut down the supply chain of the entire narcotics industry centered around the three drugs found in the Great Forest of Hypnonarak this time. Forget about it. It's not going anywhere."

"We are aware that that would be an absurd demand of any Martial Senior," The man smiled. "We do not require you to destroy the narcotics industry, the only thing that we would like for you to do is to strain it."

"...Strain it?" Rui tilted his head.

"That's right, we would like for you to increase the risks and dangers associated with harvesting narcotics flora," The man explained. "As long as you can do that, you will be able to significantly diminish the supply chain for a brief period."

Rui frowned. "Yes, but it's only going to be temporary and momentary, the second I stop, it's going to end. There will be absolutely no long-term impact. You surely are aware of that, so that implies you're simply looking for a window of time, rather than a permanent outcome."

"Correct," The man smiled. "We are aware that there is no long-term or permanent impact on temporarily causing a lot of deaths. However, there are still things that can be done while you're active in suppressing forest raiders."

they want to accomplish while I strain the narcotics supply chain, then it

narcotics from regions particularly afflicted by drug addiction, or are you trying to cripple drug trafficking rings with razor-thin margins?" Rui wondered. "Straining the supply chain manifests only in its impact on the supplier and consumer, so I can only infer that one of the two is your goal. I would deduce that it is the latter, considering that an epidemic of assassinations was disruptive to your intelligence-gathering operations, an epidemic of drugs

certain particularly drug-afflicted regions not too far from the Great Forest of Hypnonarak. Unfortunately, the supply of narcotics in these regions is far too high and the price is far too low. If we are to instate stability, we will need a brief

the agenda for the Gereign branch of the Beggar's Sect was similar to the Derschek branch's. In general, the Beggar's Sect's greatest priority was always intelligence, thus anything that threatened its ability to gather intelligence was always a threat. Tremendous instability was the

for failure. Any region that was in too much chaos would disrupt its

intelligence supply

could not rely on such means. It was impractical to train every single one of their agents into a highly skilled elite covert operative. It was also impossible to equip every single one

much more difficult to cope with chaos and instability, even if not

any

of time and energy," Rui narrowed his eyes. "I did not just come here to fulfill my

that, Senior Falken," The man remarked. "We do not intend to attempt to prevent you from training under the Hypnomaster. You can commence the operation before, after, or