Phoenix Talon Company

The carriage took them on a meandering route through the streets. As they got further from Sir Azarah’s mansion, the buildings through the carriage’s windows looked dingier. Achilles began to feel a little trepidation.

He was really going to leave everybody he had ever known. Half the people of their village were dead, and Achilles was going to leave without even attending their funerals.

But he had always felt out of place. Even now, he didn’t belong there. He had a feeling no one would miss him outside of his family.

It did feel painful, the idea of leaving his mother and Diana. But it did not cross Achilles’s mind for a moment to remain.

Even aside from the fact that if he did not become stronger, Virgil’s power would turn him into some sort of monster, Achilles knew he could never be any happier with the boring life in the town then in the village where he had grown up.