Chapter Five460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0tqOxHdoV
“Briefing”
Every one of us here has a privileged position, as we all know; we are fortunate460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwyS1Y85QF
to serve our nation and our ruler to unparalleled levels, we are chosen and460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfob9UJ6Hm4
with our actions, we display the very best our kingdom has to offer. We are460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRhn794Lbu
its strength and its cunning. We undertake what very few can even consider, and we460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPwCVJQ5v4
always succeed.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzIhzWh5Ic
That is what we do, who we are.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdXFchZfEH
We are both the first arrow and the rumoured dagger. We are fortunate for we are460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1yyuVrthqa
thus allowed to see and know more than most ever will, but we are still far from seeing460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBDpHEweabX
and knowing everything, of hearing all the secrets. We are not told of certain things460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtcEePiISH
unless urgency for our services demands it and so sometimes, most the times, all the460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiFGekXRNq
privileged information is shared with us forcibly.Usually and unfortunately at the very460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2D2JfIqmAy
last hour and always at the most basic level required for our success, and anything460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLc8i4CjiX
else that I come to learn must be importuned, but such a thing has never hindered us.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpX20mi8BBh
Duty calls to us, our king bestows upon us the knowledge he deems necessary for us460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2etmzQDpn
to succeed, and we always do.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtjhdHkAED
Tonight will be no different. We will succeed regardless of how little we know.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGZepWsxwH
Always remember that is who we are. Now that’s out of the way...460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuh6ngdPQUs
I will now say something I do not usually need to tell you...460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5yEhMnead
I want everyone here to be extremely careful tonight and to never, under any460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡczQIeKvsQb
circumstance, underestimate the situation around you or even worse to overestimate460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOWkjFhMse
yourselves. I have always been reminded that all things should be taken in moderation,460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hcx4JEQuQ
even experience, for too much of it can also harm. These are always important words460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTBySL3mhx
I think, but it is not my intent to bother your ears with them...460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QhSAfAC3C
I will just leave you with this: I want every single one of you, tonight, to remember460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIYXV8GYpmv
at all times why we succeed...460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ98HFYM5eq1
I ask you all to promise me and yourselves this. Indulge me, please.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeP2gkGZZbg
Tonight, will be a vastly different mission from any we had previously been charged460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxumKoTAzk
with, in both time and geography.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9sbUbC3yi
We are headed to a place like no other and never before has so little time been given460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMQn9gpDsN
to us to accomplish a mission. Never had I heard such urgency in his majesty’s voice.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYMF4Q0gZs
I was instructed to warn you that this is the most important mission the Hand has460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfiMYNtYH5x
ever been charged with - these are words from King Hervies himself as he stared me460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Rhdz6z56C
in the eyes.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAD9FKS0lF
Be always mindful of this.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTE3dSR0Zb
So, as I am sure you are aware by now, we are heading up there, towards the top of460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqiVEsHTSm
that mountain, into the facility established since the incident that killed this place.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyjDiJgr59
I was told that we are not to expect any encountered resistance hence we bring only460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJPiMgyD8i
our basic weaponry, I was also warned that this mission is not one of search and rescue460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vCdx2BIda
no matter how dire the situation presented to us.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPtgeqpRU5
We are not to go out of our way to rescue someone if such a scenario, however460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQUFn2y7YTB
unlikely, is presented to us. We are to move in fully prepared and expecting the worst460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo47lD0qm5P
possible situation as we always do, for they never call us in otherwise. All we know as of460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitGDI51hvL
now is that all forms of communication between the palace and all those stationed up460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxeEI7zWAf
there were lost after six years of assiduity, cut off deliberately but not by our majesty’s460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULseC3g9xh
command.460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmESXnRkx2M
Those people stationed there come up with something, a discovery of great460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1lAnY00xp
importance, unprecedented. Whether it was one of the many research teams that460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcf9epMHvTV
achieved it, or it was unburied by the digging team, this I do not know. I was not told460Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwyYJuYePa
about this.
