Vol 6 Chapter 1 (1/2)
Published
at 26th of October 2019 11:14:28 AM
Chapter 1
DawnNo clouds blemished the sky for a thousand kilometers
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The night before Skycloud’s forces had coht up to Greenland’s border, but it did not come to blowsInstead Arcturus appeared alone and spoke with their leader, CloudhawkThe content of that discussion was a mystery, all the people kneas that Skycloud’s armada turned and left when the talk was doneIt was so unthinkable, yet that was the truthIt raised Cloudhawk’s prestige a the people of the Green Alliance and was a display of his powerHe had the power and qualifications to stand up to Arcturus Cloude!
Yet while his people were assured, Cloudhawk knew in his heart that really standing up to the Governor of Skycloud was no easy feat
Arcturus didn’t attack because of anything Cloudhawk didThe Master De to think aboutIt was a chance to change course before Skycloud and the Green Alliance became mired in an unnecessary war
The Green Alliance, now fully established, included Meadow, Greenland and Nox – places that ell defended and difficult to takeSkycloud couldn’t simply run over them and be done with itIf they weren’t careful, the Elysians could find the conflict they couldn’t escape fro on for yearsAlthough Skycloud’s odds of victory were larger, it would come at a terrible costArcturus had also intiress the wastelands had made
Skycloud’s Governor wasn’t sure when, if ever, Cloudhaould come aroundThis uncertainty tied his hands for there was still so much to do before the inevitable life and death contest they would find themselves inUntil then and to avoid that eventuality, he would try every non-lethal method he could muster
For example, he could work diplo the Green Alliance’s members, entice some awayOr he could lure the Alliance’s holds and decimate them to break their ence there was no question that he could concoct any nuet what he wanted
Their talk had collapsed practically theit seemed as still inevitableCloudhawk had to be ready
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He walked out of the fort in the center of Greenland and strolled through the city’s gardensThey were a new addition, added after the reconstructionCentral a tombstone‘Artemis’ had been carved on its surface
As Cloudhawk stood over the grave he produced two bottles of alcoholHe opened one and placed it on the groundThe other he kept for hienerous sipsAfter a few moments he sat down next to the too over his plansThe wasteland’s horizon stretched out ahead of hiun to creep across the blue sky like fish scalesIt was a peaceful and attractive scene
“I bet you would never have dreae the face of the wastelandsMaybe even change the world” Cloudhawk spoke as though addressing an old friend“I envy you, you knowYou lived like you wanted, did as you pleased and died on your own ter it hard to remember what Artemis looked like…
He really was jealous of Artemis and the sort of person she’d beenShe lived her own life till the moment she diedNot like Cloudhawk or the people around himThey were all like lumps of clay for fate’s hands to mold, wood for destiny’s knife to carve and they felt every cutMaybe in the end they would turn out beautiful and sophisticated, but as certain was they would lose themselves
If Cloudhawk had the sao he would use the power he obtained tohis friendCloudhawk loved the idea of doing what he liked and ignoring what he didn’t, how could he per? But the truth was he’d changedHe couldn’t do what he wanted
Instead of killing the demon, Abaddon had becoed hied as wellHe’d learned subtlety and an eye for the bigger pictureHe no the value of patience and sacrificeIn the end perhaps Cloudhawk and Arcturus weren’t very different, Cloudhawk just wasn’t on the Master’s level
Thud, thud, thud! The sound of heavy arht his attention
“I knew you’d be hiding here” Dawn opened the face of her Dawnbreaker ArrowMost cities are under our control but there are still a number of outposts and camps who’ve yet to joinNow isn’t the time to sit around”
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“Wolfblade and the Caliph can handle ss like that”