They did not end up entering the town itself, but instead headed towards the military base attached to the town. Large, thick walls around the base made from stone made it appear more like some kind of fortress than a military base. Those walls surely were made using some kind of innate ability or card because there was no mason who could build that by hand.
Army patrols walked atop the walls, surveying the surroundings with an intensity that revealed that they had recently faced combat, and were ready for another fight. At the gate, a dozen armed soldiers waited for them, alongside a couple of military dogs who gave off aetheric pressure as if they were at or close to the Arcanist level! That would, to be specific, make them Aetherkin.
