SS1 0.0 - Prologue

  After completing my studies at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, I joined IDF and applied for combat engineer or sapper unit. The recruitment advertisement said that my job as a sapper would include but not limited to basic sabotage, landmine planting or demining, application of explosive, breaching and opening routes, field construction, trench warfare, and operating variety of ground vehicles. It’s really suited my passion as fresh graduate engineer who wanted to stay away from infantry job.

  It’s just that, the ad for some reason forgot to mention, every IDF sapper had to complete high level infantry training and became rifleman who was very good at infantry job. Moreover, as one of top three students in my class, I received forced invitation to attend sniper and unconventional demolition course in one package.

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  After that, instead of putting me in regular sapper battalion, the chain of command assigned me to Yahalom, the IDF’s most active combat engineer unit. And after my first combat deployment I couldn’t tell it anymore, am I infantry who did sapper job or sapper who did infantry job?

  Then, time passed quickly. After 28 months of rigorous training and six years of service, I had two major combat operations and dozens of special sapper missions under my belt. I also became sapper junior officer and led my own platoon.

  Before I knew, I had fallen in love with my sapper life. Without second thought I decided to stay a bit longer in IDF. However, a hello crash thwarted my plan. Fortunately, my sapper life didn’t end. I could continue it in another world.

  Long short story, this was a story of sapper officer who voluntarily go to other world to hunt monster. My hunting team was made up of demi-human, the unwanted kind in a country under strict human supremacy. However, despite the discrimination they faced, my men always gave their all to finish the job beyond the call of duty.

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