As he was thinking about the sses of missions he immediately crossed out covert operations. The skill pre-requisite for the covert operations missions was much more niche and extensive than the other sses. One needed stealth, sensory, infiltration and espionage capabilities that Rui just franklycked.


    While it was true that Rui had mastered Blink, Blink was not good enough all by itself. Blink had weaknesses, for example, it''s timing and usage wasrgely out of Rui''s hands. He could not use Blink whenever he wanted because he needed his opponent to Blink.


    Furthermore, the greater the number target numbers, the exponentially harder to became to apply Blink. Because people didn''t blink at the same time usually. These two rather big shorings made it harder for Rui to apply Blink the way covert operations required him to. Things like espionage and infiltration required timing, uracy and precision control. Blink was simply not a technique whose timing could be controlled; this was simply a fact about the fundamental nature of the technique.


    Perhaps in the next round of training he would learn some more stealth-oriented techniques.


    (''No...'') He shook his head. (''The next round will be focused purely on head-to-headbat, because of the Martial Festival.'')


    ? Most of thepetition in the Martial Festival was head-to-head one-on-one fights, stealth wasrgely unnecessary for the most part. He did not want to waste one his technique slots on learning stealth techniques that he almost certainly wouldn''t use.


    Although he intended to diversify his Martial Art to other sses, that would have to wait until after the Kandrian Martial Festival.


    He turned away from the covert operations missions. Some day he would undertake one of them, today was not that day, however.


    He really didn''t want to go for a defense-ss mission just yet.


    "That leaves..." He turned to the offense-ss section and the misceneous-ss section of the library.


    He immediately walked into the offense-ss section. It was no contest between assault-centric missions and a messy hotchpotch of odd missions that had no ce in the other sses of missions.


    There was one thing about the offense-ss section of missions that stood out from the other sections of the library.


    Arge majority of the mission bills, slotted in the shelves of the library had a special insignia inscribed on them.


    (''The Royal Insignia.'') Rui mused. Assault was stillrgely ouwed within the Kandrian Empire, although most domestic physical disputes did not reach the stage of prosecution, the Kandrian government and the Royal Family would not tolerate themercialization of violence within the borders of the country. That would simply give rise to tyranny onrge scales as those with the greatest amount of wealth would be able to monopolize the greatest amount of violence.


    Of course, like all illegal services and goods, there was an underworld with ck market and mafia that provided such services. One less extreme example would be the local gangs that that the Lowminers had effectively paid to handle their dirty business.


    Therefore, an overwhelming amount of themissions for unaggressed violence that the Martial Union received were from the Royal Family, via thew-enforcement branches of the Kandrian government.


    Thesemissions had all received Royal authorization and were perfectly legal.


    As Rui sauntered through the section he could see a variety of types of missions. Capture missions centered around known felons that were too dangerous for ordinaryw-enforcement officers to arrest. Execution-missions where the mission objective was the death of a particr target or targets. There were missions centered around royally authorized destruction of property too. A lot of the missions were rted to the criminal activities.


    Even among them, a lot of them were connected with objectives concerned with the underworld and the mafia. It seemed as though the Royal Family was off-loading all this work to the Martial Union.


    Which in a way made sense. The Martial Union and the underworld were probably eyesores to the Royal Family, that no doubt wanted to retain as much power and control over the Kandrian Empire as possible. These two goliaths stood in the way of its ambition and there wasn''t much meaningful that the Royal Family could do.


    Especially against the Martial Union, which was sorely vital and important to the Kandrian Empire.


    The underworld, however, not so much. The Royal Family had effectively managed to get both of its eyesores to fight against each other by dumping a lot of the workload centered around the suppression of the underworld via the Martial Union. Rui was able to sense that much, atleast.


    The underworld was too pesky of a problem and almost impossible to fight head-on against. This had much less to do with the Royal Family itself and more to do with human nature.


    If Rui had learnt anything during his time on Earth was that you can''t wage war against the underworld and win, for one very simple reason;


    Where there was demand, there would also be supply. This was almost aw of humanity.


    The government of the United States had waged war against illegal supply of alcohol and lost horribly. It was still waging war against drugs and was losing hriously yet again.


    Online piracy despite copyrightws was rampant. Pirates managed to supply movies, TV shows, novels and games and not a single damn person could stop it.


    This was why the Royal Family had simply washed their hands of this matter to the Martial Union in exchange for an unfathomable amount of funds, resources and privileges.


    Not that the Martial Union was having an easier time, but themissions were useful because it kept the Martial Artists busy and allowed the Martial Union and its Martial Artists to be sustained.


    Rui had decided.


    It was time for him to undertake an offense-ss mission.


    Out of all the sses of missions, the offense ss guaranteedbat much more than the other sses of missions did. It was literally a ss of mission that revolved around attacking people!


    This would be good experience for the Martial Festival. That alone was good enough reason for this decision.All rights ? N?velDrama.Org.


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