Chapter 236: All for Nothing

Misty Mountain lay drowned in fog, empty of human trace. Deep in the old-growth woods, wedged between two narrow peaks, a small research facility sat hidden. A weak searchlight swept the darkness in slow, tired arcs. In the shadows, Koizumi Ichiro led fifteen Jaston swordsmen. Every one of them wore a black warrior's robe with a long blade at the hip as they slipped toward the facility like a single, silent tide. "Ten minutes," Koizumi said coldly. "That's all we have to strike." "When ten minutes...