Chapter 187: The Eagle and the Gate

Chapter 187: The Eagle and the Gate

Fourteen months had passed since Asil last stood before these gates.

In the northwest of Bayanburt City, the Rezuba War Academy's entrance was bustling with the annual crowd of hopeful applicants. As dawn's mist began to lift, a lone figure emerged, growing sharper with each step. He was a youth of seventeen or eighteen, his jet-black hair disheveled from a long journey, his simple white robes stained with dust and dew. Exhaustion marked his face, yet he paused briefly at the sight of the crowd, a flicker of something—nostalgia, perhaps, or resolve—flashing in his eyes.