The Martial Unity

Four members of the Royal Family sat around a large round table covered with all manners of documents.

This time, they were not as alone as they were last time.

In the room, in addition to sixteen Martial Masters, were another sixteen people: analysts, executives, and personal advisors. Each was vetted by a high-grade Martial Master who was also vetted to have no allegiance to the Martial Union.

This was the limited task force that the four princes and princesses decided to put into place for the minutiae of the alliance between them.

Due to the furtive nature of the tentative alliance that they had formed to curb Prince Raijun's growth and, specifically, to assassinate Rui Quarrier, this was the limit of the personnel they could allocate to the alliance.

Any more people than this, and the risks of an information leak increased exponentially. The Martial Union, the Beggar's Sect, the Shadow Guild, and any other number of local, national, and international intelligence organizations.

Thankfully, the task at hand was not managerially burdening.

"In the past two weeks, we have identified one hundred and eighty-six Senior assassins whose track record indicates the qualities that we seek," One woman, appointed as head of the anti-Rui task force, remarked. "I have provided Your Highnesses with the relevant documents."

She provided each of the four members of the Royal Family with a document reporting the findings of the task force.

simply far too sensitive. They needed to be absolutely clean when the assassination occurred. Otherwise, they would lose

he skimmed through the document that listed the profiles of the various prominent Senior-level assassins of the Underworld

any Martial Artist with affiliations to the other three powerhouses of East Panama?" Princess Ranea inquired as

executive of the task

we were collaborating with our chief enemies, after all," Princess Raemina lightly remarked as she went through the listed

per unit difficulty are statistically much higher than the average of their verified Realm," Princess Rafia monotonically highlighted as she didn't so

Martial assassins on here," Princess Ranea remarked as she went through them. "It's a shame we can't just hire all of

glaring at her. "If you didn't fill your head with ocean brain rot and actually studied Martial Art as a field, then you would not

him. "That's why I brought over Martial Art scholars

us, it is doomed for failure. For one, neither the Martial Union nor the Kandrian Border Patrol Force will fail to notice the entry of a hundred and eighty-six Martial Seniors. That's an absolute pipedream. In the first place, the port of transit is monitored by one Martial Master at all times, so stealth is not enough. They need to rely on disguise to

and butter for these Senior assassins, the Kandrian Empire was a whole other ballgame. The same could be said for any of the other three

of these nations was powerful enough to deploy powerful Martial and technological forces to secure their

an absolutely gigantic territory to protect. Thus, while

long as the number was not a hundred and eighty-six, that was

deploy Masters either," Princess Ranea heaved a tired

already extremely scarce; of them, those who were assassins were