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Chapter Two328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeSor4SWOL
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5623GNtyi
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLDBwColys
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT04mcxHXfB
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX8iw1RsGVT
travel anywhere undetected.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnvsFmemI4J
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWF0hSfSlB
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKQ54gWJpQ
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtABda14BIP
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJyNstfo24
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzW5uLvzbZm
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbJ72oZkDS
getting closer.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExPE381SaF
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOMktafwZz
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDKGD2zrDYA
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkShwnryMS9
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJo4vkP4PJM
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrLZXcoIbg
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WcLswd7l6
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9K6XMnNBKl
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZrgBgBkyS
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWeVkUeLaZ
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEMqSuowrm0
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLznNYxdcnA
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTL0LHqCQX
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3x0JPzyt3
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy67VUFTNkE
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFl8IfaSeNQ
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡET4e7RHbRM
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYu3QUtTgP
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaYsOasAQj
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fsVb74mVs
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuCxEDjAYW
sorts of preposterous scenarios.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrDAwtqdKs
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWOdIpRbVO
failed their king, not once.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PL4YnThNW
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0S3q3dRpU
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQltrpuJklj
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvNvGfOTfJ
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTJUb2jFEpy
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCycoO9vJB
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1g5oJDFZy
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0OlAxrFyF
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7DAM7gVAN
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIxdzPbCSe
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgAOiRlr8u
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZDFJ5pOgT
while making sure it never arrives in second place.328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDw9asUtDcE
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is328Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWDud94kVgK
its best quality.
