Ozu's Legacy

[Ryummel]

1st May 819 A.S.

The gates of Ryugukutsu site opened abruptly as a Katana fighter was floating above them. The Dragon Cave was an underground facility carved inside one of the many mountains across the barren-like landscape of planet Niiza in Okinawa system. Daytime temperatures usually broke the 100º C barrier while nights were widely known among the Guild and Kishiro scientists as cold, below -50ºC levels. This, of course, wasn't an issue for Akechi to worry about as long as he remained inside the ship.

Short time later, the Cave swallowed the Dragon snubcraft while the gates closed behind it. The purpose of this facility or the mere knowledge of its existance was supposedly restricted to the Shogunate members, Daimyos included. Since Akechi managed to get out alive from the onslaught in the Arch aboard that Katana, he immediately felt that the ship couldn't be just returned to Chugoku or even Sendai, the well-hidden in the dense nebula of Okinawa. One of the prime purposes for which the Cave was existed was to isolate very few elements found since the beginning of the Nomad War that shouldn't see the sunlight, or at least for some time, as Akechi understood once he reached the position of Daimyo.

He jumped off the ship's cockpit and took a few steps away before turning around to admire the legacy of Ozu to the Dragons. A relic, a symbol of the strength that Dragons showed in the battle of Heaven's Gate almost twenty years ago, the sword that Ozu wielded to command the Dragons against the infected forces, a hero among his kind.

"It's cursed."

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