So Ezio Auditore, Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood, closed his eyes and whispered a command.

The version number on the loading screen read: .

But tonight, as he stood on the wooden scaffolding above the Galata Tower, he understood.

Then he put it back on.

“It is not a machine,” the young Assassin recruit, Murat, had warned. “It is a key . The old Mentor said it rewrites not just what we see, but what was .”

“Activate: One-Hit Assassinations.”