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    Ninja
    Ninja
    Ninja
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    Ninja

    By Jon F. Merz

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    In the style of Robert E. Howard, NINJA tells the story of a mythical warrior hero named Ran as he graduates from the ninja school he has been attending for twenty years and begins undertaking all sorts of missions across an alternate Earth. Ran will travel far and wide gathering intelligence, acquiring priceless artifacts, and battling evil wherever he finds it...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon F. Merz
    Release dateMar 11, 2010
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      Ninja - Jon F. Merz

      Ninja

      By

      Jon F. Merz

      Copyright © 2010 by Jon F. Merz

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      From the lush green of the valley floor, the fortress soared skyward. Towering walls of granite mined from a quarry many leagues away formed a foundation set onto the hill overlooking the river hewing its way between the mountains on either side. High above, towers and ramparts afforded the guards a perfect vantage point on every approach. It had been designed to thwart attack from any angle. To a traditional warrior, the fortress appeared insurmountable.

      But Ran, hidden in the shadows of the thick fragrant pine boughs, saw opportunity where others did not.

      Two weeks previously, he had sat motionless in this same spot, watching the full moon cast its glow upon the eastern side. And in the moonlight the stony walls had revealed perhaps the castle’s one weakness.

      Divots in the stone ran all the way up to the lowest rampart. Where others saw mere indentations, Ran saw handhold and footholds. They weren’t uniform. Nor would the going be easy. But it was possible. And possibility was the foundation of success.

      Now, back in the looming shadows of the massive pine, Ran waited. There would be a new moon and thus would he blend perfectly with the night as he made his infiltration, just as he had used the full moon to aid his observation a fortnight before. Such was it scribed on the ancient scrolls he had spent the last twenty-five years of his life studying.

      From birth, Ran had been schooled in the legendary martial art of Ninjutsu – the infamous stealers-in of the shadow world. Masters of spying, infiltration, and warfare, the ninja were reputed to be supernatural warriors able to bend the universe to their will and bewitch a stalwart sentry with a mere glance.

      Ran smiled at the thought. Certainly, there was much he had yet to learn about the higher levels of the art, but magic? More likely those stalwart sentries had dozed off. Rather than face harsh punishment for sleeping on duty, they had simply concocted a tale that a ninja wizard had cast a spell over them.

      And Ran knew something

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