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Chapter Five338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAFdOfwGWtL
“Briefing”
Every one of us here has a privileged position, as we all know; we are fortunate338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigb0Xje8Us
to serve our nation and our ruler to unparalleled levels, we are chosen and338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4p0406QRDv
with our actions, we display the very best our kingdom has to offer. We are338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB0c6tvi72
its strength and its cunning. We undertake what very few can even consider, and we338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJtMVb7m7G
always succeed.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFg3RHBzKLf
That is what we do, who we are.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqqpwkhGLA
We are both the first arrow and the rumoured dagger. We are fortunate for we are338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNtDH4v954
thus allowed to see and know more than most ever will, but we are still far from seeing338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sALCZ8zcP
and knowing everything, of hearing all the secrets. We are not told of certain things338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGHDWnW37Q
unless urgency for our services demands it and so sometimes, most the times, all the338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQv7umMbv3
privileged information is shared with us forcibly.Usually and unfortunately at the very338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9ISxQuUms
last hour and always at the most basic level required for our success, and anything338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIkgIHWBTu
else that I come to learn must be importuned, but such a thing has never hindered us.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFLufoUAIC
Duty calls to us, our king bestows upon us the knowledge he deems necessary for us338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4f0RRZFOr1
to succeed, and we always do.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQkO1Fgoeg
Tonight will be no different. We will succeed regardless of how little we know.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOowvZwxVx
Always remember that is who we are. Now that’s out of the way...338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMPjM9EBY0
I will now say something I do not usually need to tell you...338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWeV5pEki3M
I want everyone here to be extremely careful tonight and to never, under any338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWxu4Am2LI
circumstance, underestimate the situation around you or even worse to overestimate338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NFpwN1aFu
yourselves. I have always been reminded that all things should be taken in moderation,338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3q5uvftTs
even experience, for too much of it can also harm. These are always important words338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ48WQt2scJp
I think, but it is not my intent to bother your ears with them...338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRGG4oP3bW
I will just leave you with this: I want every single one of you, tonight, to remember338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XJNfN9dGT
at all times why we succeed...338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8lTdPxwXBN
I ask you all to promise me and yourselves this. Indulge me, please.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgacC9x89nt
Tonight, will be a vastly different mission from any we had previously been charged338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡda2gr07WQp
with, in both time and geography.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPVTJCImTJ
We are headed to a place like no other and never before has so little time been given338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPMVLjzvEI
to us to accomplish a mission. Never had I heard such urgency in his majesty’s voice.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTTRE9ie6d
I was instructed to warn you that this is the most important mission the Hand has338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DMRpLE1pi
ever been charged with - these are words from King Hervies himself as he stared me338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKNc6lB2rV
in the eyes.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ16YUL8T19x
Be always mindful of this.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWShk4rRxj8
So, as I am sure you are aware by now, we are heading up there, towards the top of338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcs8v3bcn7m
that mountain, into the facility established since the incident that killed this place.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFrHX71Nv7
I was told that we are not to expect any encountered resistance hence we bring only338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTfwOJWBb0
our basic weaponry, I was also warned that this mission is not one of search and rescue338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVedDLq3TKq
no matter how dire the situation presented to us.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrY7zxwNKOd
We are not to go out of our way to rescue someone if such a scenario, however338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXxYX8kDuI
unlikely, is presented to us. We are to move in fully prepared and expecting the worst338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm75CaotKJ7
possible situation as we always do, for they never call us in otherwise. All we know as of338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NzlM3lOxd
now is that all forms of communication between the palace and all those stationed up338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDvvCQZAoF
there were lost after six years of assiduity, cut off deliberately but not by our majesty’s338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUt2Q0CcOWB
command.338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6Ua2AbqwY
Those people stationed there come up with something, a discovery of great338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsGLctlk6d
importance, unprecedented. Whether it was one of the many research teams that338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCo0B081n8
achieved it, or it was unburied by the digging team, this I do not know. I was not told338Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhxER7iBVt
about this.
