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Chapter Two319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpOq4Ogy4z
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILMMUgVCws
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQhW50KC82
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJZ6zlVLO4
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdhqVzYJCos
travel anywhere undetected.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTYsrYEomC6
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLv0fE10U1r
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWF48L16kqL
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMTrBn6Xdy
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3UEMYfsgj
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYlGirzuem
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhePahjfO0
getting closer.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMolgGClhG
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjw5NUEOTr
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKErcA98P0
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSVTO6FKDOS
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wgqDtvIx3
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIDE67Uyzn
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVRYeZNm9r
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4RXDnexNy
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBxbG1tVzN
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dBtGn9t6I
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkM7EYot1Y3
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPi4Oew5x4
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkSSCuoMbk
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqB6YD4Dz7O
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgWKP0Ld4E
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sqQIq8jqD
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2l69eyX8I
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UuPfM81bY
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZ7Q0EHPXh
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiphqEfCEFV
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9krnFJccU
sorts of preposterous scenarios.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW6rYaWYgI
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0yQ56gdX8
failed their king, not once.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcOGQtJctmJ
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6UGu99tGJ
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKJFUNMsWW
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8PhZLO695r
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogSkAHjggb
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbByHyov0t
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsTelbTprD
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjVz4Jbjpok
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCCmdMZ2ZT
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvGlkTi922i
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJf4bDSqWSc
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllAKBo8hM2
while making sure it never arrives in second place.319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kvCfGvO86
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is319Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAnqJtu18E
its best quality.
