Chapter 73


    After learning theyout of the building Alex learned that the only route he could take without getting seen was, the entrance on the rooftop . Of course there were people there on the roof, who seem to be guarding the door . . . Or not, upon closer inspection using his binocrs, Alex saw it was just two gang members having a drink, while smoking .


    Alex put a suppressor on his sniper rifle, and with great uracy shot one of the men, and before the other could react he got a bullet pierced through his head . Now that Alex had dealt with the men on the roof, he needed to stealthily pass the cameras .


    Alex took something from the bag he brought, it was a grappling gun, he aimed it at the roof of the shoe factory . There was no cameras pointing upwards, so he was easily able to bypass the outside security .


    Once Alex got to the roof of the shoe factory . He looked at the map of the ce, the maids made for him . It seems like there was a control center of sorts on the upper floors, which monitors the whole factory .


    ’It looks like I wont be able to get into the control center, without an id card . Those thugs from the local gangs most probably don’t posses the qualifications to enter the control center . Then maybe those professionals have one . Most likely the ones in masks are mercenaries, don’t know what squad there in, nor what rank they have, but epting such a low ss mission such as kidnapping, means that there the lowest kind of mercenaries . ’


    Alex then proceeded to carry the two gang members and hid their dead bodies in one of the boxes he found on the roof . After doing away with the bodies, Alex entered the factory and hid into the the vents .


    . . .


    One of the mercenaries hired to guard the factory was doing a routine check on the area . Unlike the easy going thugs of the local gangs, the mercs in the factory where a bit restless . The boss had warned them, after kidnapping the girl one of the most vicious merc of Berdonia woulde looking for them .


    The boss imed that the one who would be infiltrating the factory was the ’Silent sh . ’ All the mercs who have been in the battlefield for thest three years would know who the Silent sh is . The merc could the Silent sh was more of a fairy tale than a real being .


    In Berdonia there are five beings that are the most feared by the Southern Union and the Granado Empire . The first was the ’Demon’ Lyner, the strongest merc of Berdonia, he who longs for the ultimate battle . There was even a verse made about him to scare new recruits


    Run, run, run, cause here hees .


    Run, run, run, for the monsteres .


    A Swish of his de and your head begone


    With the shot of his gun, you’re all but done . This verse was created to teach them that the battlefield was not simply a ce for glory, money, nor fame, it was a ce where death and true danger lurks within .


    The second was the ’Shadow . ’ This was an assassin that hasn’t failed to kill his target, he has a few kills under his belt, but all of them where high profiled and difficult to assassinate, yet he was able to kill them . It was said that even if you see his silhouette you could never discern anything about him . Not his gender, his age, height, nor his face . Everything about him was all a blur .


    The third was the ’Blond Devil’ this was a merc who destroys everything with his bare fists . You could see him running around the battlefieldughing hysterically as he fought tanks, and helicopters, with nothing more than his bare hands as weapons .


    The fourth was the ’Messenger of Death . ’ This was a merc that has been in numerous missions, it is said once he has proimed you dead, no matter where you hide, no matter who you are, death was inevitable .


    Then finally the merc that suddenly appeared out of nowhere the ’Silent sh . ’ Many had imed that this mysterious merc was part of the squad created by the Messenger of Death . Some have even said that he was the child of the Messenger of Death, but most where not sure of this im .


    The ’Silent sh’ has a perfect mission record, even the three current SS rank mercs, can’t im to have achieved this kind of feat . The reason he was called the ’Silent sh’ was because once you see a sh of light there are only two fates avable for you, the lucky ones, who see the sh are simply rendered unconscious, the unlucky ones, are offered a quick death .


    Unlike the four beings mentioned, the ’Silent sh’ is the only one who hasn’t been spotted by others, nor has he talked to anyone, the mission he epts are random as well . The only way tomunicate with him was true the squad of the Messenger of Death, which birthed the rumor of him being part of them .


    That’s why the mercs who where currently guarding the factory are nervous, only some of them treated the ’Silent sh’ as a fairy tale character, made by the Southern Union, or the Granado Empire . He was created as a sort of motivation, so that the people of one of the two nations would be forced to improve their soldiers . Since if Berdonia had a prospective SS rank that was in the making, chaos will ensue, and the mes of war will grow brighter, with Berdonia gaining the upper hand .


    Still most of the mercs feared the ’Silent sh’ even more than the ’Demon . ’ Since the ’Demon’ was real, and they could identify him, unlike the enemy that they know nothing about . the ’Demon’ was way better .


    The mercs guarding the factory had paired up, as they do their rounds . One of the mercs who where near the control center heard something in the vents, being on high alert he checked the vent where he heard the sound, while hispanion guarded his back . When he looked in the vents their was nothing there .


    Relieved that he was just being a bit paranoid the merc sighed, he then got out of the vents, he was about to make a joke at his partner, but when he looked back, his partner wasn’t there . Unnerved by the sudden disappearance of his partner, he was about to radio in for back up, but then, he saw a white light sh by, and before he could respond with any sort of action, he felt his vision dimming, his consciousness was slowly fading . The merc died, and thest thing he thought was that the fairy tale was actually a nightmare .