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A few days passed by without any issues. After the bandit attack, the Storm Caravan continued their journey smoothly and arrived at the next city on their route: Valkas the Fortress City.
Situated beyond the desolate desert region, Valkas was the land guarding the border. It was ruled directly by the Margrave and granted autonomous military authority. Unsurprisingly, the scale of the fortress alone dwarfed that of any other territory.
Leon gazed at the sight in awe and muttered, “I’ve never seen walls that tall before…”
Unlike Blaine the Freedom City, Valkas had an entirely different structure. While Blaine had only two layers of walls, Valkas had three concentric barriers, with a deep moat filled with water that gave it a decisive advantage in siege warfare. Archers patrolled the walls, expertly positioned.
Even estimating by sight, the outer wall alone was fifteen meters high, with the inner two walls towering just as impressively. To breach such a defense by conventional means, one would first have to pile up a mountain of corpses.
By contrast, Karen looked unimpressed.
“Yeah, I guess they’re pretty tall.”
For someone who could clear one of the walls in a single leap, they were nothing...
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