Firelight (Two Updates, Ten Thousand Words, Please Vote)

February 23

A trade caravan crossed the Northern Ice Plains and arrived at Winter City's north gate.

The new trade caravan brought much-needed food and industrial goods to Winter City.

Rock City and Winter City jointly held a press conference, announcing the successful opening of the northern trade route. The route would pass through nearly seven cities, becoming the northernmost trade route in the entire Federation.

The young Vice Mayor Vili gave a remote interview to Ino Media.

Before the cameras, she naturally and thoroughly described the "oppression" Winter City's people had suffered under Rockville Energy Group, United Industries, and the Eternal Sect. Holding the camera herself, she ventured deep into Winter City's Storm District, walking into those silent corners and recounting the lives Winter City's people had endured under the Eternal Sect's coercion. She also interviewed Winter City residents living in shacks and tents.

At the same time, she told the camera the story of a young boy named "Ilo."

And Ilo was the rumored mech pilot who had destroyed the Sky Behemoth, as well as the "Hero" who had ultimately saved Winter City that night.

In her account, the Eternal Sect had killed Ilo's entire family. Though he was still young, he had never given up hope and had always resisted the Eternal Sect. In the end, he destroyed the Eternal Sect's terrifying plan and allowed sunlight to shine upon this city of ice and snow once more.

It was also because of Ilo's encouragement and support that she had never given up hope and had continued pressing onward.

She also believed that age was not what determined everything, and that hope did not choose whether to descend upon the old or the young.

In the end, she told the camera that everything Winter City's Municipal Government had