Kyle very carefully walked down the road.
He constantly felt threats looking at him from a distance, and his instincts told him that this was a very, very dangerous place.
Just the number of these beast-repelling flowers was crazy.
The roads leading to Starkhold just had a thin line of them, while the line here was almost ten meters wide.
'Bro, going into the wilderness here feels like a death sentence.'
Luckily, Kyle saw a bunch of powerful people walking through the streets as well.
The people occasionally nodded at Kyle in greeting before continuing, and Kyle returned the greeting.
Yet, whenever Kyle received one of these greetings, his instincts were telling him that he couldn't fight any of these people.
The weakest person who had greeted him was a Mid Fighter, and that guy felt really powerful for his level.
Within 30 minutes of travel, Kyle had already seen five Grandmasters!
Every single one of them could fight Bonk or Wyveria.
One time, Kyle even saw an entire company of Knights running past him.
Almost all of them were Peak Knights, and the few of them that weren't were Royal Knights.
'I should get used to this,' Kyle thought. 'The Wild Wardens' territory borders the territory of the Skysand Fighter Guild, and the Skysand Fighter Guild is around the capital.'
The Skysand Fighter Guild was the Five-Weapons Guild.
'If I remember correctly, the war with the Winterfire Kingdom is led on two fronts.'
'On the New Continent in the middle of the Grand Ocean and the World Peak far to the west.'
'This was probably a company of royal soldiers traveling from the headquarters to the World Peak.'
The World Peak was the biggest mountain range in the entire world, and it was on the left "edge" of the world.
The biggest mountain even reached the World Ceiling.
Both Kingdoms wanted control of it for two reasons.
First of all, the ore there was even better than the ore of the Dividing Ridge.
Second, there was an Ether Essence there, the source of all Ether Crystals and Ether Gems.
However, there was also something else there, which made the war on that front very different from the other one.
One of the Natural Gods resided there as well.
The war on the western front was in a delicate and dangerous balance.
They needed to push back the enemy without causing so much chaos that the Natural God became angry.
As Kyle continued traveling to Forthing's Hold, he felt like he was out of his depth.
'This feels almost like the time I traveled through the wilderness on the peninsula.'
Luckily, despite the constant danger he felt, Kyle didn't actually come face to face with any danger.
The constant presence of powerful people kept all beasts at bay.
After two nervous hours of traveling, Kyle finally reached his destination.
Forthing's Hold.
"Whoa," Kyle said as he saw Forthing's Hold.
'This looks like out of a fantasy movie!'
The city was probably over ten kilometers wide, and the buildings became taller the closer they got to the center.
In the center of the city was the biggest fortress Kyle had ever seen.
The walls were made of unimaginably powerful black metal, and the fortress itself was almost 500 meters high!
Even more, it was an entire two kilometers wide!
"The Forthing's expanded their castle again," Theodor commented.
"That's their castle? The entire thing?" Kyle asked.
"Yes," Theodor answered. "It looks big, but there are not that many people in there. Over 90% of it is just storage for the most valuable ore the Forthings own. This is also the Skysand Kingdom's primary repository of ore. Half of the ore in there is owned by the Skysand Kingdom. They are just storing it there."
"This building is powerful enough to resist a couple of attacks launched by a Transcendent."
Kyle gulped.
"What about the Colossus?" he asked.
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