Mind Wizards of Callisto

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When you have an enemy, you cannot rest in peace until you have destroyed him.

This is one of the great laws of life, and it holds as true for individual men as for nations.

As a warrior by inclination, a fighting-man by profession, I have made this dictum a part of my personal philosophy. And nothing that has ever chanced to occur in my long career of wandering and adventure has ever proved this belief an error.

And now we had indeed an enemy! An enemy secretive and furtive, shadowy and hidden, unscrupulous and insidious. There was no course open to men of courage and honor but to seek out the hidden lairs of that enemy and destroy him before he brought his cunning schemes to fruition and destroyed us.

In the years since I first found myself miraculously transported across the gulf of millions of miles of space by some mysterious agency to this strange and marvelous world, I have allied myself with a people called the Ku Thad. They are a brave and stalwart and freedom-loving nation of heroic and noble-hearted warriors, and the seat of their power is the great city of Shondakor the Golden, which arises amidst the Plains of Haratha on the River Ajand.

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