"Because we charge higher rates and fees for missions whose operation requires fielding Martial Artists outside the border of the Kandrian Empire, most of the international and foreign missions we get are not from small-time bodyguard missions by singr individuals with an average upation or anything such as that." Headmaster Aronian said. "No, most of them are missions from wealthy individuals with high socio-economic status, powerful cooperations,ndowners, political or governmental figures, arge variety of Beast Domain missions and things of that sort."


    "I see..."


    "Your bodyguard mission in the Basara Mountains is a good example of what foreign missions are like, at bare minimum mind you. Foreign missions are regrly fraught with such danger because there are no limits to what can happen in a foreign mission whatosever. You can run into Martial Artists of higher Realms from different nations who will unhesitatingly ughter you in an instant. Anything can happen and you''re absolutely all on your own, there''s no safety of any kind, you just die from a single mistake."


    Headmaster Aronian ended up convincing Rui. At the end of the day, Rui was not a daredevil who enjoyed staking his life for tasks he wasn''t qualified for just yet. He didn''t mind waiting half a year or so until he was much stronger after mastering even more techniques and diversifying his Martial Art.


    "Furthermore..." Headmaster Aronian continued as he stroked his beard. "Although you did not win the Martial Contest, you reached the finals and you put up one hell of a fight. You have already received manymissions from specific clienteles who are interested inmissioning you for missions." Headmaster Aronian told him.


    Rui''s eyes lit up in interest at those words.


    He had expected this beforehand, to some degree. Even if he did lose, and even he was not happy about it, the status of a Martial Contest finalist was not low. He was basically the publicly crowned number two of the Martial Artists of his generation.


    Considering that the Martial Contest was extremely prestigious, there was no doubt that there would be many clienteles interested in many things.


    "How many have I received since the Martial Contest began?" He asked, excited.


    "Fourteen." Headmaster Aronian replied with aplicated expression. "Much lower than a finalist would receive, in all honesty."


    Rui frowned at those words. "Why so?"


    "Well, I can''t say for sure." Headmaster Aronian shrugged. "But it probably has to do with the nature of your Martial Art. You''re not just a Type I all-rounder Martial Art, your fighting style fluctuatespletely depending on your opponent. It''s optimized for pure head-on physical conflict. The reason elite and wealthy clienteles sendmissions to the Martial Contest representatives is because they have proven theirpetence to be at the elite level. However, missions are generally specialized, while you''re an adaptive all-rounder. Do you understand?"


    Rui nodded, immediately deducing the headmaster''s message. "So basically, because I''m a fluid all-rounder, I''m never the best at any one particr field. Dalen and Arjun will probably always be better than me at defense-ss missions, Fae will always be better than me at offense-ss missions, Kane will always excel better than me at Shadow-ss missions and so on and so forth."


    "Exactly." Headmaster nodded. "You excel at adapting and evolving to any opponent. Yet exactly how useful is that to missions? It''s probably useful, no doubt. But is it more useful than the specialists? Can you surpass offensive Martial Artists at offensive ss missions? Can you surpass defensive Martial Artists at defensive missions? Is there any ss, type or even a particr mission that your Martial Art will fulfill better than any other kind of Martial Art?"


    Rui narrowed his eyes at those words. He didn''t like what headmaster Aronian was telling him, but there was truth to his words.This belongs ? N?velDra/ma.Org.


    There were five sses of missions in the Martial Union.


    Offense, defense, hunter, shadow and misceneous. Four of these sses had dedicated specialists to them, and Rui knew that he could notpete with the specialists in their specialized fields.


    The Flowing Void style did not have any particr ss of missions it could do much better than any other Martial Art would. His style excelled at adapting to his opponents and fighting them in the most optimal manner needed to take them down.


    However, taking down singr opponents in the best manner possible, in a head-on conflict was certainly not most desired or important quality looked for in these four different shes.


    In defensive-ss missions, your ability to protect your target of protections was the most valued trait. In offensive-ss missions your ability to inflict harm of varying degrees on your target was the most values trait. In the hunter and shadow ss missions there were so many different most valued qualities based on the sub-category, however Rui did not excel at any of those fields.


    Of course, because of how many techniques he had mastered and how potent hisbat ability was, he would always be relevant, but at the elite levels of the four sses, that wasn''t enough. If he wanted to gain more personalmissions from upper-ss clienteles, he needed to show them he couldplete missions of a certain kind better than his peers. And that was an area where he had failed.


    Of course, his performance was incredible and so he drew more than a dozen personalmissions anyway. But as spectacr and entertaining he was, all the upper-ss clienteles went to Arjun for defensive-ssmissions. They went to Mia, Vyoming, Servil and Ana for all the other sses. They were just more specialized and more suited.


    Rui bet that even Ian and Fiona got far moremissions than he did despite effectively being all-rounders. Fiona was just so abysmally strong that she couldpete with and surpass specialists in their own fields. Ian could also do that, albeit to a lesser extent.


    He shook his head; it was what it was.


    "Well, what are themissions I received?"


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