The Martial Unity

No less than a few hours after Chairman Deacon died, a full-fledged investigative team had been dispatched by the East Panamic Transport Organization to investigate the heavy energy anomaly along the travel route between the Kandrian Empire and the Shionel Confederation.

"This…!" The head investigator of the team gasped with disbelief. "How can such a thing come to be?!"

The crater was mind-blowing, so much so that it beggared the mind. It was hard to actually fathom the sheer size and expanse of the crater that had appeared alongside the road.

"Master Sera, what do you make of this?" The man murmured, shocked.

A woman standing beside him narrowed her eyes as she inspected the crater. "Well… One thing I can say is that this was not caused by a clash between Martial Masters."

"How can you be so certain?"

"Unless something goes really wrong, a clash between Martial Masters won't spill over to the environment. We have immense control over our power and we usually only affect what we want to," Master Sera remarked. "Still…this feels far too large to be done by Martial Seniors, especially since it's clear it was done in one go."

"So then…?"

definitely involved," She concluded. "However, reports from the civilians stated that a clash between Martial Artists had ensued, so

The man heaved a troubled sigh.

would explain why they started such a high-profile fight in front of so many witnesses. They knew that there would be nothing left by the

The only thing we have are shoddy witness testimony and a list of victims," The investigator sighed as he went through the initial reports that had been gathered by witnesses that had flocked

of Deacon Industries are most likely the only victim, given that one of the parties in the conflict was a traveling convoy from Deacon Industries according to one of the witnesses." The man remarked. "Contact the Chairman and interrogate him," Master Sera simply remarked. "We are in the process of doing that right now, we'll get an answer soon. Until then, this

Deacon Industries enlightened the investigative authorities about the measures that

head investigator frowned. "We have not seen any signs of survivors, and according to the butler, very few people knew about the bomb. So there is

person traveling from the area, which supported

quickly came to a close with the limited amount of information available at hand. The prevailing hypothesis was that both

Rui murmured when he read the brief report that the Beggar's Sect had given him that relayed the

of action that would ensure that

physical evidence. After all, without there being any forensic or physical evidence to work with, the only thing one could use to try and gauge the identity of the assassin or the person who hired the assassin would be

many people with motives to kill him. Rui knew that there was an extremely high chance that the investigative authorities would abandon this line of investigation when they went through the sheer list of the times that Chairman Deacon had had