Overview
The title is doing a lot of work. This is the mission where Jin is handed the tools that violate the warrior's code, in the first hour.
Jin meets Yuna at Kechi Fishing Village and works with her against the Mongols holding it. Mechanically it is the game's stealth tutorial: it unlocks assassination and Focused Hearing, the ability to pinpoint enemies at a distance and through solid objects.
Both tools are dishonourable by the standard Lord Shimura raised Jin to, and the game introduces them before it introduces most of the sword mechanics. That ordering is the whole thesis stated up front.
In the game’s own framing: Yuna’s brother Taka, a blacksmith, is held in a Mongol camp near Kaneda inlet. The tale that teaches you to kill quietly, and frames it as something Jin was taught as a boy.
What to bring
What this tale expects you to have on you.
- RecommendedFocused HearingThe steps rely on it to place guards through walls.
Objectives
- Meet Yuna
- Speak with Yuna
- Go to the overlook
- Survey the camp
- Find the gap in the fence
- Squeeze through
- Assassinate the guard
- Follow the bear tracks
- Inspect the carcass
- Use Focused Hearing
- Clear the camp
- Find the cage
- Open the cage
- Question the prisoner
- Collect the valuables
- Exit through the second gap
- Regroup with Yuna
- Escape
Full walkthrough
- 01Meet Yuna
South of Kechi fishing village; approach the waypoint.
- 02Speak with Yuna
She explains about Taka and where he is being held.
- 03Go to the overlook
Follow her to the high ground above the prison camp.
- 04Survey the camp
Three points of interest: the guard positions and the gap in the front wall. Survey points are not decoration — each one you mark puts an objective or a hazard on your map, and skipping them means finding the same things the hard way.
- 05Find the gap in the fence
Cross the river to the opening in the perimeter.
- 06Squeeze through
Holding the prompt triggers the cinematic that unlocks assassination. Take the ends of patrol routes first, where a body will not be walked into — a discovered corpse raises the alarm just as reliably as being seen.
- 07Assassinate the guard
Crouch, come up behind the guard outside the walls and take him — which starts the flashback. Take the ends of patrol routes first, where a body will not be walked into — a discovered corpse raises the alarm just as reliably as being seen.
- 08Follow the bear tracks
In the flashback: examine the tracks, then follow the blood to a wounded bear.
- 09Inspect the carcass
Examining it ends the memory. The lesson being taught is not really about hunting.
- 10Use Focused Hearing
The touchpad reveals every enemy through walls. Focused Hearing shows enemies through walls and floors, so use it to place everyone before committing rather than to react once you are seen.
- 11Clear the camp
Work through the Mongols by stealth.
- 12Find the cage
In the tent on the raised ground. The prisoner is not Taka.
- 13Open the cage
Pick the lock and let him out.
- 14Question the prisoner
He has intelligence worth hearing.
- 15Collect the valuables
Kill the Mongol in the large round tent nearby and take the record and the Mongol artifact before you go.
- 16Exit through the second gap
Follow the waypoint to where Yuna is waiting.
- 17Regroup with Yuna
Outside the camp perimeter.
- 18Escape
Follow her out. The trophy is called "Point of No Return", which is a fair description of the mission.
Rewards
- Major Legend IncreaseA large step toward the next Legend rank. Legend gates your Ghost Weapon unlocks and your health and Resolve upgrades, so main and Mythic Tales are the fastest way to raise it.
- Assassination
- Focused Hearing