27 Bartolo, Dorian, and the five recruits were all exhausted, but they’d cut the journey to the lands of Altura’s south down to days. They’d just passed the last signaling tower before Wondhip Pass, seeing the prism shining bright and lustrous. Now the farmland and forests gave way to barren rock, the land gaining a gradual slope as Bartolo stared up at the Elmas, his eye following the winding mountain path that led to the pass. He placed his hands on his knees as he walked uphill, forcing fatigued limbs to continue the harrowing pace. Bartolo rested briefly, glancing behind him and scanning
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Book four was very good but the first 3 were hard to get through.
