Chapter 378: Fifteen Days
The gorge was silent.
Rhain stood between the two kneeling leaders, his brows knitting together in deep thought.
There was no clearly righteous side here.
If he sided with the Crystalveil and executed Skarn here, he would be completing a genocide that began five hundred years ago.
If he sided with the Bone Skull and forced Fridleif to hand over the Spring, he would be condemning the Crystalveil's own children to death, for the Spring was drying. He would be punishing the present for the sins of ancestors who had long turned to ashes.
Choosing either side would be a wrong decision.
And a wrong decision, in a trial designed to judge his heart, could only mean one thing — failure.
To pass this trial, he had only one choice left.
"This battle ends now," Rhain finally stated, his calm voice echoing clearly across the silent battlefield.
The words fell like a thunderclap.
Both sides stared at him as if he had spoken madness.
