The Martial Unity

'In short, I can only attack them when they're in the middle of operations because this is the only time when attacking them isn't suicide. I can't form complete predictive models on them since the only time they use their Martial Art is also the only time where I can't engage in observation since I'll be too busy attacking one of them.' Rui sighed.

The circumstances were far from ideal.

Back in the Shadow Isles, he could peacefully observe them, tail them, and even watch them use their Martial Art when assassinating so that he could form solid predictive models on them.

This was not the case here. He would have to go in much more blind. He didn't know what reinforcements the Carnil Mafia was sending, but it was best to assume that they were sending relevant high-grade Martial Seniors.

Most likely, highly specialized sensory Martial Seniors equipped with powerful anti-stealth esoteric technological measures. Perhaps Senior-level organizations and forces were helpless before his Greater Phantomind Void, but the same could not be said for the Kandrian Underworld.

Rui had no doubt that they would be going all out with sending reinforcements that were fully equipped to deal with even peak-grade Senior-level assassins.

'I need to get the job done before they arrive.' Rui narrowed his eyes as his mind processed and analyzed his circumstances. 'If I can kill all the Martial Seniors before they arrive, then I can easily annihilate the base with my full power without having to worry about Martial Seniors retaliating and killing.'

The ultimate objective was completely destroying all of the investment and establishment of the Carnil Mafia in the Gereign Region.

Anything less and it would not be enough to stop them.

The reason for this was that the drug supply from the Great Forest of Hypnonarak was an important part of the Kandrian Underworld's political strategy in the Kandrian Throne War. This meant that because it was important to them, they would not easily give up on its success.

'If I only kill the Martial Seniors and call it a day, the Carnil Mafia will simply deploy twice as many and resume the operations. And this time they'll be armed to the teeth with all kinds of resources specifically meant to stop assassins like myself.'

Rui knew from Master Reina's teaching that misdirection was decently common amongst Martial Artist assassins. If it was that common, then obviously, anti-assassination measures would include counters to misdirection.

'Flora is immune to misdirection since it doesn't have an awareness for misdirection to even work on.' Rui knew that there were very concrete mechanisms through which misdirection could be stopped.

The Carnil Mafia would undoubtedly arm their reinforcements with such measures, making his job much harder than it currently was.

That was why he needed to destroy their base before the reinforcements arrived. If he could burn down the entirety of the foundation that the Carnil Mafia developed, then it was much likelier to permanently stop them.

The amount of wealth that the Carnil mafia had invested in the Gereign base was probably in the hundreds of millions in terms of Shionel Gold. This didn't include the intangible costs that came with the spent time, political capital, and Martial capital spent into clashing with the other rival forces in the Gereign Region.

If he destroyed all of that, then they would have to expend all that wealth and capital all over again. Most likely, rebuilding it would take several years and several times more wealth than they did the first time.

That was a high cost, that alone might force them to pause and reconsider.

Furthermore, even if they did decide it was worth it to rebuild everything from scratch, the fact of the matter was that it would still take years' worth of time. That would not only halt their plans of normalizing drugs in the Kandrian Empire, it would regress it. Such things did not remain stagnant, they either went up or down, but never remained stationary.

That meant that not only would they have to spend several years rebuilding, but they would have to spend several more years compensating for the regressed demand for drugs due to its absence!

'They can't afford such a delay to their plans.' Rui mused. 'It would be better to scrap a failed plan than to cling onto it desperately long after it has failed to accomplish its objective.'

This was the true essence of Rui's strategy.

It was to annihilate their foundation in the Gereign Region and make their entire drug strategy in the Kandrian Throne War too costly to be worth pursuing.

'This will be more than enough to fulfill the remaining commission payment to the Beggar's Sect,' Rui narrowed his eyes. 'In fact, they'll owe me by the time I'm done.'

Had it been any other Martial Senior, they would not have so much as dared to fight the Carnil Mafia. As one of the six pillars of the Kandrian Underworld, the Carnil Mafia was a titanic force that had Sage-level war potential with the services of Sage Aggragor.

It was unthinkable for a Martial Senior to fight them. No Martial Senior could even possibly survive, let alone succeed.

Unless that Martial Senior was Rui.

Having calmly processed large amounts of data supplied by the Beggar's Sect, he accurately deduced the political and economic constraints of the Carnil Mafia's operations. He further processed and analyzed the local geo-political factors, leveraging them by creating circumstances where they would work against the Carnil Mafia. He plotted out a detailed strategy and course of action where he would eliminate all the impediments to his goal of annihilating the Carnil Mafia.

Just like that, an impossible challenge that would result in the death of any other Martial Senior had already been scaled by Rui.

He saw victory where others merely saw the darkness of absolute loss.

Now it was time to execute his vision.

'They're not going to know what hit them by the time I'm done.' He narrowed his eyes.