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much, just an abandoned shop a hundred yards behind the front line. It would serve, though. They didn’t need anything fancy for the briefing he was about to give them.
    “OK everyone,” he began. “We’ve been given a special mission by request of front command in this city. Please note that they consider this very important, and our success is extremely vital in order to keep our offensive on schedule.”
    “Gosh, I didn’t know we had a schedule,” Javy said. “And if we did, I thought we’d be behind.”
    “Plans change, but as of now we’re on schedule,” Danny told him. “Command knows the conditions we’re fighting under and has taken them into account.”
    “We can only hope,” Javy shrugged, and a few others murmured their agreement.
    Danny nodded, then looked over at Miko leaning up against one of the walls. “Our target is a building near this section of the front that dominates the landscape. Our peerless scout has more information about it.”
    “Thanks, I’m flattered,” Miko said. She straightened up and strode forward, then opened up her wrist menu and activated the projector. “Where do you want me to begin?”
    “Wherever you think is good,” Danny told her.
    “OK then.” She brought up a projection of the building so everyone could see. “Here we are. As you may notice, calling it a building might not do it justice. The structure is fifteen stories tall and serves as an observation point, stronghold and sniping platform. Anyone on the upper floors can pretty much have their way without any fear of retaliation.”
    Danny made a mental note of that statement. He had heard similar things when Dragon Battalion had called him with the requests. Officers, heavy weapons specialists and other important personnel had suddenly dropped dead, victims of a single deadly shot from a lurking sniper. And from forensic evidence gathered by the medical specialists, the only angle they could have come from was on top of that building.
    Naturally, they had to take it. They could have just blasted it from a distance with their artillery, but Hydra Command had deemed it a strategic asset, and Danny had to agree. Its height would allow them to see almost the entire district, allowing them to guide artillery fire and spot incoming attacks and enemy movements from a huge distance.
    Come to think of it, that might have been the reason why further advances into the city had been so difficult. If Ragnarok could see them from miles off, then how could they hope to achieve any sort of surprise?
    Plus, Danny didn’t feel like hiding from shadows, running from building to building to avoid being sniped. It didn’t matter if a sniper was actually up there either. Now that they had made the threat known, Hydra had to take it seriously.
    But if they took the tower then they could turn the tables back on the enemy. Easier said than done, though, because Ragnarok certainly knew its strategic value and would doubtless defend it fiercely.
    Miko continued. “The structure has been spared the worst of the bombardments, so it’s relatively intact. We don’t want to bring the thing down unless we’re sure we can’t capture it.”
    “So, building storming then?” Gavin asked.
    “Right. Though as you can see, there’s going to be a lot more to it than usual. For one, it’s a lot bigger than the places we normally tackle. For two, it’s vertical. And we know it’s also heavily defended.”
    Ryan looked around. “So we have a reinforced platoon here. Is that going to be enough to take the place?”
    “You’d think so, but we can’t be sure unless we actually try it,” Miko told him. “Dragon’s been trying to determine how many enemy troops are actually in the building, but it’s next to impossible.”
    “What’s our best guess?” Gavin asked.
    “At least a platoon, maybe more.”
    That response elicited a frown. “And we have to go up against that with just a platoon of our own? I’m sorry, but