The next day, the war chamber of Fort Aegis was stifling with bodies and tension as twenty Awakened stood around the scarred alloy table, the same one that had borne maps and desperate strategies a day ago.
Deciding on the Awakened to go for "Operation Winterfang" was one thing, convincing them to subscribe to the motive and necessity of the mission was another thing.
Like they say, you could force the horse to go to the river, but you could not force the horse to drink water.
Most of the 20 selected Awakened were dedicated soldiers of Fort Aegis, but still, they were men and women with free will, some of them even had families in the quarantine zone that they were not willing to leave behind.
Operation Winterfang was a gamble. Fighting a C Rank monster was a crazy gamble, not to talk of going out there to meet it in its territory.
