Chapter 67 The Edge of the Empire (2/2)

The Real Pills whose power he had used to escape the cell had also further opened his Force Realrasp of the spells, using them with more Essence wasn't an easy task

Months passed as he traveled through forests, hills, and grasslands, only stopping for rest and practice His travels were s He rarely encountered other people, and when he did, they were hunters, shepherds, or farht his first sight of the Western Mountains, and the view left him awestruck

Even froe was so he would not have believed possible had he not seen it with his own eyes

Like a jagged wall that stretched up thousands of feet, the mountains reached up into the clouds and beyond Froe seemed both endless and impassable

Briefly, he wondered why the Shadowflame Society was even needed to protect the western border of the Ereater than any man could build, it seemed like the Empire had little need for additional protection

When he arrived at the foot of thein the hills, suddenly reluctant to h he was to join the Shadowflaet here had taken hi it at an end he had trouble taking the final step

He had changed in many ways since the start of his journey, but some small part of hiht of Fulai City

Few of the people he had grown up with had ever traveled more than a week away from Riverbend When he set off on his journey to Fulai City, it had felt like a great adventure — a tale he would sorandchildren

Yet now, he had traveled far beyond Fulai City, and he stood at the edge of an E was endless Soon, he would step over that edge

Although before hiared belief, he knew that after he joined the Shadowflame Society, he would travel to the lands beyond those

Eventually, he set off again, traveling north in search of one of the border cities

The search took longer than expected, and he spent several weeks just to find a village with people who could tell hio

After another er than Silver ates

With so that behind its gates he would find the first steps of his next journey

Yet when he stepped through the gates, the trepidation made way for excitement

He had finally arrived

END OF VOLUME ONE