
Chapter Two294Please respect copyright.PENANAUS4t6RDiJQ
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the294Please respect copyright.PENANAAjxoDArKDT
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they294Please respect copyright.PENANAq1Zia3sotp
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few294Please respect copyright.PENANAd5veKVvS3z
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to294Please respect copyright.PENANAEkVTdbPyBZ
travel anywhere undetected.294Please respect copyright.PENANA2mlxuhRVxP
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so294Please respect copyright.PENANAcQ6mMSSeja
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.294Please respect copyright.PENANAONOGL97cho
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting294Please respect copyright.PENANA5b49J0Tr8U
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed294Please respect copyright.PENANANEVTDQEgbZ
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now294Please respect copyright.PENANA1N4YSaiNUA
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are294Please respect copyright.PENANAx5PLGMCVUm
getting closer.294Please respect copyright.PENANA9UgTfNRjq6
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly294Please respect copyright.PENANA4vEji8Rn15
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what294Please respect copyright.PENANAhFFZadfdsK
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying294Please respect copyright.PENANAhoSz3idbgI
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one294Please respect copyright.PENANAzwn48uaVV8
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to294Please respect copyright.PENANA7pPR7X9i9l
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that294Please respect copyright.PENANAOGYqdnon7q
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when294Please respect copyright.PENANAhoicx0DROn
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses294Please respect copyright.PENANAf1zJfqj1Z7
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a294Please respect copyright.PENANAtt2ClIzUSV
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time294Please respect copyright.PENANABbfBUNejZP
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar294Please respect copyright.PENANAEpwUhPK7ry
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard294Please respect copyright.PENANA2KQ18AaSNg
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually294Please respect copyright.PENANAObAczR58s7
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys294Please respect copyright.PENANA0JXcrK5UHe
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.294Please respect copyright.PENANAydYqGphdtt
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they294Please respect copyright.PENANAmv80meAYcC
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the294Please respect copyright.PENANA0owGdDBnbr
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,294Please respect copyright.PENANAvbT9OI48QX
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else294Please respect copyright.PENANAzd3GX177bw
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all294Please respect copyright.PENANAvztZJsalJc
sorts of preposterous scenarios.294Please respect copyright.PENANAOFAs49A3H8
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never294Please respect copyright.PENANAXfMdBzDiHQ
failed their king, not once.294Please respect copyright.PENANALhDCvmmixh
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.294Please respect copyright.PENANAfbaOTsBykd
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the294Please respect copyright.PENANA6GC86OPs6X
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing294Please respect copyright.PENANASUT6n4DOVO
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no294Please respect copyright.PENANAjjva5AAurX
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed294Please respect copyright.PENANATrvlTmqrJ7
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very294Please respect copyright.PENANAux4puNMJMO
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her294Please respect copyright.PENANAShGBzaNIgO
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike294Please respect copyright.PENANAaxN0RN7y8m
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the294Please respect copyright.PENANA4L4OEUYr6l
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert294Please respect copyright.PENANA5YqB9E9KTy
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware294Please respect copyright.PENANAy1phYWv6g2
while making sure it never arrives in second place.294Please respect copyright.PENANAdK2hH3Hsq2
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is294Please respect copyright.PENANAOYTpgHkgZL
its best quality.