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"A boys family used to be famous but him and his mom got banished and she was sick, he had to fight in the lower parts of the city for his moms medicine later the house got burned down and he went into some academy where he was picked as a cleaner or cook on a ship with kids his age to go into some island and kill dragons that had different levels, he later on killed one of the biggest and got promoted to be the captain on the ship, they found out that they were living in the clouds and there was a whole society on the ground and the people in the clouds had ascended from the ground up a long time ago, that’s where the book ends, on a cliffhanger"