
Chapter Two381Please respect copyright.PENANAnixletoFjm
“Landfall”
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Thunderclaps amidst all the heavy rain announce to those aboard the381Please respect copyright.PENANAnnIQ5eBdWa
strange-looking aircraft stubbornly making its way across the sky, that they381Please respect copyright.PENANAj9BtpLjr0t
have just entered Beriheim. It is the UX-Rg31 prototype; also known by few381Please respect copyright.PENANAuNOjEobrYl
as the ´Bolt Lander´, a most unique aircraft amongst its peers as its main purpose is to381Please respect copyright.PENANA7Gso1LKpXH
travel anywhere undetected.381Please respect copyright.PENANAtHBswxdJrW
But not tonight though, for tonight stealth must be sacrificed for haste, and so381Please respect copyright.PENANA5wyb9gzMyA
nothing will be able to hide it and its sounds of fury as it makes its way across the skies.381Please respect copyright.PENANAgnbp0DUIL4
It departed from the Human Capital not even two hours ago, and has been cutting381Please respect copyright.PENANAmTA78wD3Xp
clouds and deafening anyone caught under it since it took to the skies. It is headed381Please respect copyright.PENANACnHvRnVnVw
towards the top of the Beriheim Mountain and the large flashes of white light now381Please respect copyright.PENANAKOsFWwyH3j
pouring through those thick glassed windows let everyone aboard know that they are381Please respect copyright.PENANAb8Ly4M7o7P
getting closer.381Please respect copyright.PENANA6vnKXFm0U2
An old man is confidently taking the pilot seat, his face is spent and his wrinkly381Please respect copyright.PENANAoOiPCsSCvS
hairy hands shaky, but he is still the best pilot on the continent. His eyes are not what381Please respect copyright.PENANAgSoBLeyBzG
they used to be, but Airman Sheiska has always displayed an uncanny knack for flying381Please respect copyright.PENANAs1BAVZUha1
as he keeps demonstrating with his almost purely intuitive manoeuvres between one381Please respect copyright.PENANAieUkY8M096
lighting strike and the next. It is imperative that he brings those five men as close to381Please respect copyright.PENANAQGDtDQQTsE
that Mountain as possible. Four figures sitting in the dark, two on each side of that381Please respect copyright.PENANA6qtjY4DTN2
cargo hold and with their silhouettes barely visible, except for now and again when381Please respect copyright.PENANAD9fSCJ8t2a
those flashes of light storming the outside manage to break in. And a fifth who refuses381Please respect copyright.PENANATmng9jyFo6
his seat preferring instead to stand proud between them; he is holding himself to a381Please respect copyright.PENANAUCsh1vHalw
metal bar right above his head as the entire aircraft keeps shaking. Every single time381Please respect copyright.PENANASFAF9M3qhA
a big flash of white dumps its light through those small windows, a thunderous roar381Please respect copyright.PENANAb8LIoNzpPk
and a violent shake immediately follow. It is quickly growing worse as all six aboard381Please respect copyright.PENANA0nvEnjUNdZ
can easily tell. These five are its cargo, for the Bolt Lander is transporting, as it usually381Please respect copyright.PENANABMEdO8X5PR
does, the very best of all the Human forces. The elite team that King Hervies deploys381Please respect copyright.PENANA0tjdyojiSX
when he needs something taken care of quickly and surely.381Please respect copyright.PENANArbzAXodCU1
They are the “Hervies Hand” for they always operate as a team of five and they381Please respect copyright.PENANAZNg2GKLI5u
are the most trusted and capable of all at the Human king’s disposal. They are the381Please respect copyright.PENANASIVZh2ZdGC
best. Five elite soldiers; capable of all sorts of tasks that their king might ask of them,381Please respect copyright.PENANASR2YKFlHYf
including most of all, combat. Time and again have they survived what no one else381Please respect copyright.PENANAD1HLMeI71x
would and just as often have they fought and vanquished all sorts of enemies in all381Please respect copyright.PENANAU4oFg51zjs
sorts of preposterous scenarios.381Please respect copyright.PENANAsBP78Bmn8d
They go in and they come out successfully, that is what they do, and they have never381Please respect copyright.PENANAEyqI9ASAGH
failed their king, not once.381Please respect copyright.PENANAiwjm5MU0vS
Everyone knows that the Hand is only called to serve during states of emergency.381Please respect copyright.PENANAgSmdnXkURu
Their work is few and far between, but it is always impactful, and many times has the381Please respect copyright.PENANAPH3c4ubnTt
outcome of their missions changed the course of Human history. They are preparing381Please respect copyright.PENANAMJi58qBK41
themselves to accomplish yet another important mission for their majesty and no381Please respect copyright.PENANAVEBwPPrtbN
amount of rain or thunder is going to shake them. Fast has the Bolt Lander traversed381Please respect copyright.PENANAVvhgnjqPnM
the lands, faster than any other aircraft can, but this is the rarest occurrence for very381Please respect copyright.PENANAxMJFHqCCTt
seldom is she called to serve in the first place and when she is, it is to make use of her381Please respect copyright.PENANA2OEzVUTYkx
more cunning and stealthy capabilities. She can fly in almost complete silence unlike381Please respect copyright.PENANAOzE3cFz15O
most noisy and smoky propellers plaguing the lands and it is often able to drop the381Please respect copyright.PENANAZzdj7FEjW1
Hand real close to their target without any realisation of those not involved. Covert381Please respect copyright.PENANASXE52Ggpc0
infiltration it’s usually her main focus, for it is an aircraft designed to remain unaware381Please respect copyright.PENANAB1Jny0pVwB
while making sure it never arrives in second place.381Please respect copyright.PENANADhDM8DiZhP
Tonight, however, the Bolt Lander’s bold nickname is to be tested, as its speed is381Please respect copyright.PENANALcsayJEsP6
its best quality.