Early the next morning, Jared got out of bed looking refreshed. Vivian was still lying there, too drained to move.

Jared took Roland and twenty elite members of the Sky Dragon Lineage and set out for the Demon Marches.

Lydia Wraithmoor, Evelyn Ashcroft, Luther, and Grace all wanted to go with him, but Jared refused.

“I’m enough on my own,” he said. His tone was calm, but final. “You all stay in Cloudhaven City and hold things down.”

Lydia didn’t want to accept it, but she knew he was right.

With the strength Jared now possessed, there weren’t many in the Fourteenth Firmament who could stand against him.

“Be careful,” Lydia said.