For Hawke, the only thing that stood out was the panting of the horses and the night sky where only the stars could be seen.

It was as if I had been put into a sack, and through the narrow mouth of the bag, I could see the starry sky flowing in the Milky Way. Although it was warm in the sack, the fresh air outside made people sneeze. After the sound of the moving storytelling stopped, some hands reached into the sack, and the huge hands carefully took the child in their arms and began to coax it.

Only the faint light of the campfire, but the man's face could not be seen clearly, only the bright moon hanging on the endless horizon. Probably in that warm embrace, Hawke slowly fell asleep.

In the memory of the next moment, Hawke has become a teenager.

On the battlefield, in addition to Hawke, there are also many orphans, but Hawke is the most conspicuous among those orphans, among the black-haired and yellow-skinned people, Hawke is of course very conspicuous, people always say that Hawke is a child like a broom star, always avoiding him.

Originally, the existence of orphans on the battlefield was not even comparable to the cat catching mice in the kitchen. The orphans at the bottom of the battlefield always survived like rats, doing small jobs and eating leftover food from others. Like the other orphans, Hawke carries very heavy porridge buckets to the grocery store, and the reward for moving around all day is to get a bowl of thick porridge, which is simply not enough for a growing child. But even this kind of porridge may not be available every day, so there is no way, Hawke can only choose the most dangerous place on the battlefield, and the rest of the time Hawke has been picking up the leftover food residue eaten by mercenaries, and even if it is, sometimes he can't even eat this kind of thing, so he can only pour a large mouthful of cold water, lie in a dirty place, curl up and fall asleep.

Hawke occasionally dreams of a man who resembles himself and has a handsome appearance. The man who was holding him at night in winter suddenly appeared in front of him and said, "Son, Daddy is back!" "But it was just a dream. When I woke up from my dream, I was tormented by endless darkness and hunger.

It didn't take long for Hawke to learn how to make traps to catch critters like snakes and rats. It may be that the hands are dexterous, and the rough traps can easily catch the prey. Later, new traps can be made, and even birds the size of sparrows or crows can be caught. However, even if you catch it, you will be taken away by a strong child, and you will eventually go hungry.

After two days of starvation, he finally caught a nightingale, held the dead nightingale in his arms, and was looking for firewood to make a fire, when someone grabbed Hawke by the back of the neck and threw him to the ground, and when he looked up, he saw a group of boys with sinister smiles, their faces were covered with freckles and pimples, and the children called him Bear, because he wanted to be the king of children by virtue of his burly body, and he was surrounded by his men. Hawke has been robbed of his food by his men many times, at this moment, after grabbing Hawk who was retreating, he began to search Hawke's arms, the nightingale was searched out, I don't know who lost his temper and threw the nightingale on the ground, and stepped on it with his foot, anger made Hawke's eyes dark, I don't know where the strength came from, and after shaking off a few people who grabbed his arm, he rushed to the front of the child king Xiong Wu is punch, but what he didn't expect was that the bear fainted after being hit in the jaw.

However, not all the children were defeated, and at this time, Hawke was severely beaten by the children who had recovered from his senses, but since that time the prey has been snatched much less often. They felt that it was easier to deal with the children who would not resist than Hawke, so they finally let Hawke go.

Hawke grew up in a time that no one knew, and just when he felt that his vision had widened, he was already the strongest child in the field, and after being able to knock down the bullying bear with one punch, Hawke found that his self-confidence had returned.

Thirteen or fourteen-year-old Hawke has no sense of disobedience among the adult group, and after finding that playing with children is very boring, he begins to play with adults, shuttling between mercenary groups to help them with small things, and listen to their stories by the way. He also hid in the corner of the yard of the blacksmith shop and watched the blacksmith hammer his weapons all night. The middle-aged blacksmith uncle likes Hawke very much, although Hawke is different from others, but the blacksmith uncle just likes him very much, because Hawke is ingenious and curious, so he can immediately comprehend it himself without teaching him. Maybe it's because he saw his talent, and one day when Uncle Blacksmith asked him if he wanted to be an apprentice, Hawke was really happy to jump!

At that time, Hawke felt that his future career should be blacksmith. In this way, while being an apprentice, he thought that one day he would become a real blacksmith, and he would also have his own blacksmith shop. Because the blacksmith uncle always takes a certain sentence as a mantra and says, "This blacksmith shop is going to pass it on to you sooner or later—"

Very quiet day, before a quarrel with that mercenary at the blacksmith's shop.

It's really a shameful sword that is damaged, and the sword body will definitely break when it is repaired with cracks, and it won't be too satisfying to repair it with cheap iron, so the blacksmith uncle shook his head and said to the mercenary that it would be better to buy another one, but the mercenary thought that the blacksmith uncle wanted to sell weapons and deliberately did not repair it, and stood in front of the blacksmith uncle and yelled, Hawke said that he wanted to come forward and blast the mercenary out, but the blacksmith uncle shook his head and stopped Hawke, just when the blacksmith shop was about to close, The mercenary rushed over and grabbed Uncle Blacksmith's collar and threw him to the ground, Hawke was so angry that he couldn't help beating the mercenary down easily, and Uncle Blacksmith looked at Hawke, who was proudly supporting him, and put on an expression that he really couldn't do anything with Hawk.

The next morning, because there was no charcoal, the blacksmith uncle asked Hawke to buy some, the shop that sold charcoal was still quite far from the blacksmith shop, and it was already long past noon when Hawka returned to the blacksmith shop with the cart containing the charcoal, but there were a lot of people gathered in front of the blacksmith shop, and Hawk pushed away the crowd and complained and squeezed him to the door, but at this moment he was stunned!

The blacksmith shop has been smashed, the furnace has already been extinguished, and the tools on the wall are all over the ground, and then the blacksmith uncle can't find it anywhere, and the panicked Hawk casually caught a person and asked, a person told him that a mercenary group came and smashed the blacksmith shop directly and left, Hawke then asked about the blacksmith uncle's whereabouts, fortunately there was no danger to his life, and he had been sent to the hospital.

Uncle Blacksmith was beaten to pieces, and Hawke, who was furious and shouted for revenge, was stopped by Uncle Blacksmith with a smile, and Hawke, who thought that he had to take care of Uncle Blacksmith, endured it, after all, it was all his own fault.

Winter is coming, without exception it is still a very cold, and the blacksmith uncle, who seems to be a little better, is seriously ill, and the worried Hawke hears the blacksmith uncle say one day that there is a group of people who look very similar to Hawke living on the other side of the sea, and when he dies, let Hawke go to the group of people. But Hawke said, don't say anything that doesn't die, how bad it is, at this time Hawke is boiling tea that is good for serious illness,

Towards the end of winter, Hawke held a lonely funeral for Uncle Blacksmith.

Hawke sat in the destroyed blacksmith shop without focus, because he hadn't been there since the destruction, so the blacksmith shop was full of dust and cobwebs, and Hawke was at a loss and didn't know what to do, when he saw the only intact sword in the corner, with [K9] engraved on it. It was a sword that Uncle Blacksmith made when he was fine, and it was like the soul was hooked, Hawke picked up the sword, and the magic was that he picked it up easily, as if it was tailor-made for him, and from now on, no one could stop Hawke.

Hawke went straight to the dormitory where the mercenary group lived, he slashed the mercenary who was about to stop him, after cutting his belly, the mercenary who was covered with internal organs fell like a puddle of mud, hot blood splashed on his body, and it was cold after a while, the mercenaries were stunned and looked at the enemy who was covered in blood and suddenly rushed in, Hawke swung the giant sword heavily, four or five people fell at the same time, and the mercenaries who reacted shouted and rushed towards Hawke, Hawke was just swinging the giant sword, and kept slashing, The huge weapon was swung by Hawke, and each blow was like a full full moon until no one dared to rush up.

Suddenly he opened his eyes, his eyelids were a little dry with blood, and for a moment Hawke was thinking about where he was, looking at the soles of his feet, the stream of blood flowing, looking around, the ruined buildings and corpses all over the ground, looking at the sky, there was not a trace of clouds, and the sky was clear.

A lot of onlookers quickly gathered in front of the door, but no one stopped Hawke, who was limping out, but all retreated to make way for Hawke, monsters, madmen, this kind of whispering has been stimulating the ears, but Hawke didn't know, suddenly looked up, a familiar mercenary stood in front of him, but he couldn't remember who it was, Hawke, who was about to scratch his head, raised his hand, but the man sat down screaming and fell to the ground, so scared that the urine flowed out, Hawke finally remembered who this man was, It was the man who was making trouble in the blacksmith shop at that time, and in an instant, he held the giant sword tightly in his hand, and the man began to defend something in an incomprehensible voice, Hawke felt the noise to death, grabbed the man's collar and threw it directly, the man who was struggling, his body was stuck in the wall like a toy, and he could finally be quiet, needless to say, his heart was very happy.

Hawke laughed unscrupulously, the whispers around him suddenly quieted down, and the frightened people began to avoid Hawke's sight, and left one by one, it should have been like this a long time ago, it was all because of the fault of wanting to live a useless and peaceful life, Hawke raised his greatsword and moved away, everything was so natural.

Just go straight to being a mercenary, Hawke thought. Hawke's deeds were spread as rumors, and even spread as "a man with a giant sword and a tornado wiped out all the people of the mercenary group." Therefore, at this time, Hawke easily found a job as a mercenary, sometimes joining a mercenary group, and sometimes kicking the door directly because of his bad mood, calling himself a wandering warrior.

Probably, five years have passed like this, and as long as you talk about Hawke with a giant sword, everyone in the people knows about it.

Even so, sometimes I will have itchy hands in the hotel and hide in the nearby blacksmith shop after drinking some wine, although the memory of the blacksmith shop has been a little blurred, but the skills learned are still there, when building their new equipment, in the white smoke rising from the stove, sometimes faintly see the figure of the blacksmith uncle, the blacksmith uncle always seems to be talking something, but Hawke can't hear it clearly.

It was when he was drinking in a tavern in a small village on the border of the plains, because he had just completed an expedition not long ago, so he was wondering if he would rest for a while, only occasionally there were a few nomadic villages, and the vast grasslands always reminded him of his childhood memories, and he became absent-minded at some point, and even when a dirty beggar next to him asked him for a glass of wine, he poured a glass directly to the beggar without saying anything, and the wine made from fermented mare's milk was beige and had a smell. The beggar drank slowly with his glass in his hand, and he couldn't remember when he started talking about it, even if he used to talk about it, he never told Hawke about his past to others, and he didn't know why he could easily say it in the face of this old man, and when he said that his name was Hawke, the old man showed his yellow teeth and laughed, saying that his former companion had a strange child as long as you, and if that child was still alive, it should be about the same age as you. Hawke froze instantly, and no one could ever guess Hawke's true age. Subconsciously, Hawke began to try to recall the man's face. What if, perhaps, you remember.

Hawke asked, "What happened to that man?" The beggar replied, "Because he had lost his child in the war, he said that he would go back to his place and look for it again, and I don't know if he arrived safely after he went." ”

And so the conversation ended. Hawke, who had left the tavern, closed his lips tightly and hid in the blacksmith's shop, thinking that he needed to stabilize his emotions, and then, as if he saw the figure of the blacksmith in the white smoke on the stove, he seemed to be talking something.

"Hawke, you just need to cross that endless sea......"

The words spoken by Uncle Blacksmith and the old man kept echoing in Hawke's ears.

Hawke had no idea when he was already on his horse, after all, the continent was vast and boundless, and even if it took more than a month to get to the sea in addition to the time it took to sleep. Just as he finally reached his destination, Hawke was shocked by the sea he had seen for the first time since he was born.

After cheering up, Hawke went to a nearby charter office, and Hawke ran in and ran directly to the conductor and said:

"I'm going to buy a ticket to a destination that someone who looks like me is going to."

After the conductor saw Hawke's face, he handed over the ticket without hesitation, but to Hawke's surprise, Hawke followed up and asked, "Have you ever seen someone who looks like me", the conductor put on a "Of course" expression, Hawke blinked slowly.

Arriving at his destination, he heard that it would be many more months, and Hawke leaned on the railing of the ship and looked at the endless sea, and for a moment, he suddenly felt that his future had become like an endless sea full of all kinds of unknowns, but his heartbeat had been accelerating.