Chapter 375 Book 7 The Rumble
The afternoon sun was a warm, golden blanket over the mountain, casting long shadows from the towering peak that looked like it had been sliced in half by a divine blade. Li An sat on a smooth, grey rock at the edge of the clearing, her gaze sweeping over the hundreds of young men and women gathered. The air hummed with nervous energy and chatter.
She learned that this was not a random recruitment, as she initially suspected, but an annual event for the sects in the province of Aster.
The Estoc Empire was different from the Fir Empire she had left behind. The invisible barrier between them had been a strange, unsettling thing to cross, but her mission to aid Prince Lam Rakshi had taken her here.
