“Combat Codes: The Mystery of the Island”

The Island is a prominent setting in the Combat Codes. It is a picturesque place: black sand beaches, emerald waters, wind-swept cliffs, bamboo forests. Cego and his brothers grow up on the Island, where they train martial arts under the tutelage of the Old Master. The brothers spend their days sprinting across the beach, carrying boulders beneath the waves, scaling the cliffs, and sparring with each other until they are left panting and bloody on the beach.

But one question begins to haunt Cego and his brothers: what are they training for? Why are they here? When they question the Old Master, he always responds with the same, methodical answer: “we fight so the rest shall not have to.”

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