The crows dived. Two hours had passed since Reidar, and the others had left the valley's chaos behind.
Two hours of flying over a landscape where monsters ranging from level 100 to 300 roamed.
It was a mess, a proper and colossal mess, and the problem was that the monsters were going to increase since the portal hadn't been closed yet.
If the situation wasn't hard already before the portals, now, after them, without a doubt it was. The Aegis Phalanx needed to do something.
Reidar guided his mount lower, breaking through a layer of clouds. Creamont sprawled below.
The city had changed since the last time he had been there. Buildings that once housed offices and apartments now bristled with defensive fortifications. Walls had been erected between structures, creating defensible districts. Watchtowers rose from rooftops. Barricades blocked streets.
