After selection of candidates of The Iron Unit, all the 350 members of all wizardry guilds were summoned by The Sensei for an important notice. After all candidates came to the royal palace, the sensei said
"All of you are the chosen ones to fight, but don't be happy already. You will have 3 months of intense training and after that you will go on your first mission, your first attempt to victory. In these 90 days you will not be allowed to go off camp until you resign, or die. I have very high hopes from you. From now you are the First Iron Regiment of Earth! You all will now be divided into 14 squadrons of 35 warriors each, all of you should be cooperating with your squad and achieve victory with coordination. Make sure no body dies!"
The chief Meijin showed all squadrons their camps and everyone got introduced with their teammates. The teams were:
影組 (Kage-gumi) – Shadow Squad
雷迅 (Raijin) – Thunder Swift
赤狼 (Sekirō) – Red Wolves
月光団 (Gekkō-dan) – Moonlight Group
黒刃 (Kokujin) – Black Blade
竜心 Ryūshin – Dragon Flame
風牙 Fūga – Wind Fang
鋼魂 Hagane-dama – Steel Soul
零式 Reishiki – Type Zero
夜鴉 Yokarasu – Night Vulture
閃光隊 Senkō-tai – Flash Team
氷刃 Hyōjin – Ice Blade
青影 Aokage – Blue Meg
紅蓮 Guren – Crimson Scorpio
Arata, Amaya, Haruko were in Shadow Squad and Akari was placed in Type Zero which was meant to be the most lethal team of all.
3 months later...…
Sensei: "All of you are well prepared now with each team having a leader. All the leaders should coordinate with each other so that the teams maintain a lethal combination we've designed. You must be think why everyone was taught different attacks and skills? Let me answer you, so that all of the teams become independent!" Everyone started discussing in confusion because they had presumed that teams were made to fight together against a common enemy!
" I know you all are confused, but this was already planned before you even started your training! You all have 25 teammates in each team, we further divides that number into 5 sub – teams. Each based on a skill, 5 team members are trained to be rushers with speed, dodging skills and lethal attacks. 5 members are trained to be supporters, trained with enough capability to take place of an injured rusher and healer. 5 members are defenders, they have skills and spells to defend the entire crew if the souls outnumber the team. 5 are healers who heal wounds without needing to come on the frontline. And the remaining are Rangers, who are trained to achieve all skills of the teammates combined with a special attack only they know, not even the teammates."
The list of Rangers are:
Shimoda Masayoshi
Nakamura Atsushi
Nishiyama Kazuo
Arata Kiryū
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Amaya Takahiro
Akari Kiryū
After the 3 month long training camp every squadron went home. After 1 month of relaxing at home ...
Arata was enjoying his meal when a letter came to his home. It said :
~For Arata Kiryū
Your first mission is on August 5th 127, You will be sent on an area which is occupied by souls. You must be careful. The mission will last 48 hours as you'll have to travel 208 miles from here .
This will be the First Attempt of yours capture the souls and bring back home our lost pride!
You are our last hope to survive, please don't bring us dismay….
Sensei
September 11th 127