Prologue Summary

My name is Hayato Shirakawa, an elite operator working for the Global Security Contractors, a secretive organization tasked with protecting the world from the constant scourges that threaten it.

Terrorists, criminals, and the worst of all... the Shihai Clan.

The clan has always thrived on power, but lately, their aspirations have trespassed the boundary of sanity.

Not caring about the consequences it'd have, the organization obtained a weapon of mass destruction and ordered the entire world to surrender to them.

Failing to comply would lead to their annihilation.

Aiming to ruin their plans, the GSC sent me to the Shifting Isle, an evasive island located on the Pacific Ocean where the device was safely stored in an underground complex.

Stealth was of the essence, so I infiltrated their base of operations going unnoticed.

Down there, in the dark depths of the island, I discovered an ancient set of ruins that didn't appear to belong to Earth.

To make things far more bizarre, the weapon the Shihai Clan was planning to use to raze the world belonged to the same civilization.

As often happens with criminals, they only know how to take things away.

After an intense fight with my nemesis Deathstrider, I gained access to the device, only for the dastardly assassin to activate the countdown.

Unable to stop it, I decided to sabotage the system and force its detonation, engulfing the whole island but saving Earth in the process.

Darkness swallowed me, but it appears I'm not quite gone...