Chapter 380 (2/2)

Neither omen to be underestimated, either

Dawn could feel Cloudhawk had solance She was definitely going to try her best to win him over to her side It was a fact that caused him some anxiety Both wo to put hiresses

Luckily, before she could make her pitch the Polaris family advisor appeared Mr Ink approached Cloudhawk and spoke directly to him “Cloudhawk The General has requested your presence”

Cloudhawk sighed, relieved but also nervous

Facing Skye Polaris still scared hihter had pledged her life and honor on Cloudhawk's innocence The Polaris fae of capable hter She was the only hope for a renaissance of the Polaris clan

He wasn't going to tolerate an outsider like Cloudhawk dragging her down!

Could this hout the domain for his explosive temperament, s such a risk? Cloudhawk hoped he didn't lose his cool, after all, the General wasn't the General for no reason If that old drunk had been called the Skycloud War Saint in his day, then Skye was the full on War God Cloudhawk couldn't protect himself if the old madman lost his temper

He didn't have a choice He had to go whether he wanted to or not

So suddenly occurred to Cloudhawk He summoned the power of the phase stone and pulled from his pocket dimension a broken sword It was the blade of the fallen Border Arir had been one of the few re stars of his family, but was cut down in the Blisterpeaks The broken sas all that reinal owners

Mr Ink brought Cloudhawk to the audience hall, then through it to an artificial lake in the backyard General Polaris' old but powerful silhouette was seen standing in a pavilion overlooking the lake, watching the ripples

“General”

Cloudhaas surprised to find that Skye was not surrounded by his typical explosive aura, like a lake of fire bubbling beneath the surface Skye turned to face the youngthe broken sword in his hand, and let his eyes wander as he heaved a deep sigh

It was only then Cloudhawk felt so was off This wasn't the animalistic General he knew This was just… a tired old man As the pillars of his family crumbled one after the other, all of that pressure came to rest on his broad shoulders

Cloudhawk could now understand why this old ressive He was the only person supporting his fae, then the Polaris fae into obscurity with him If he eak, then his family was seen as weak If he fell, the whole Polaris clan crumbled

So General Skye Polaris couldn't be old He couldn't be weak He had to be stronger and more ferocious than anyone, because he wasn't a man – he was the soul of his family, and the bearer of his ancestors' honor It was an impossibly heavy burden to carry

“Honestly, Aegir wasn't all that special” Skye stared at the gently undulating lake before him “Do you knohy he was chosen to be General of the Border Army?”

Cloudhawk thought for a moment “No, I don't”

Skye continued to speak, facing the training ground situated in the center of the lake “He was adopted froht years old, a nobody His contemporaries all wanted to make their reat prowess and air He always seearden day and night”

“Just train?” Cloudhawk asked

“That's right Just train Fro to the second before he fell asleep, day after day, year after year It didn't , or if he was sick The sas all that existed for hi I knew hi He hardly ever left the house Do you kno long that went on?”

“Three years? Five?”

“Forty years”

Cloudhaitched

“True, he wasn't as talented as soth of will and character to improve hiard before he finally took his place as one of the greatest soldiers of the realh that here the iven to the blade Forty years of hardshi+ps In the end, he became a peerless swordshout the realins would one day become General of the Border Army”

Cloudhawk looked at the shattered blade in his hand and voiced his thoughts “How could he endure soalone?”

“Because he had faith When ain his faith, no humiliation or hardshi+p can break his spirit If your faith is strong, you can be willing to give up everything and still go on Through faith and sacrifice, a person of even the basest origins can becoir was never coddled a day in his life, and he had no woman or children to lift him up From his earliest days, he was subject to ridicule andas he had his sword then all was right”

Skye paused and lowered his head

“You have a unique talent, the kind that could change the world But tell me – what about faith? One look at you, and I can tell you're lost Why don't you ask yourself what it is that you want?”

Cloudhawk looked at the lake surface, lost in thought He thought about the things he used to believe He had co to Aegir's story hit so deep inside him

Skye looked at the young man “Do you knohat I saw in you e first , and untarown over the years, grow strong – and faster than anyone could have predicted But what happened to that wild heart?”

It was a question Cloudhawk had also asked himself

“It's the sarow and is But really, we often come to discover that we've already lost theit” Skye fixed Cloudhaith an earnest stare “You're young, full of potential If you don't like the state of the world, then use your strength to change it You have the power to do it!”

Cloudhaas quiet for a ti, his arm flashed out

A shattered blade glittered in the gentle light of the yard It tus Both ht it rest in the center of the lake