Time continued to tick by without too many incidents.0

The air seemed to grow a bit chilly, only for the season of cold winds and freezing noses to arrive suddenly.0

As for the Martial Assembly, it continued to surge forward like a river.0

A river that looked the same on the surface, but the water within constantly flowed forward and changed—just like such a river, the Assembly remained the same on the outside, but things were continually changing internally.0

For the first time in a while, a lot of people had gathered in the conference room.0

The attendees were made up mostly of familiar faces, but one new person had been added to the roster. Yi Myeong-Hwan, who hadn't been allowed to attend until now, had finally joined this executive-level meeting.0

During his drive to reorganize the Martial Assembly’s chain of command, Lee Hyeon-Su began handing out positions to regular martial artists.0

In the past, positions like the head of a department or a section chief were the exclusive domain of administrative departments. Unless one rose up to the position of a director, most martial artists didn’t get assigned any positions within the organization.0

The “best” they could hope for was the title of a team leader, and once they got such a role, the higher-ups would tell them to “take care” of the situation on their own.0

Obviously, doing things that way wouldn’t be conducive to creating a well-oiled organization with a functioning chain of command.0

If the hierarchy tacitly agreed upon by the parties involved did not align with the one the Martial Assembly wanted to establish, troubles were bound to follow. Hence the need to set the hierarchy properly before things got too out of hand!0

Although there...0