Early Winter

Early winter.

When the sun rose and spread its warm light across the land, all the residents of Northril heard a resounding bell.

Clang!

The bell's toll spread throughout the imperial capital, and people looked up toward its source in the sky.

For the past ten days, there had been two Floating Cities above Northril. One was Nesser, unchanged for a thousand years; the other was Grey Eagle Duke's Falanis. The sight was magnificent.

Falanis Floating City was originally stationed above Longpis City, the territory of Grey Eagle Duke. It was the fourth Floating City in the empire's history, having taken to the skies roughly three hundred years after Nesser. Falanis had been built in the same way as Nesser. Grey Eagle Duke had severed the peak of a mountain and turned it upside down, then built a city and towers on the cross-section and arranged countless Rune Arrays throughout its interior.

However, Falanis was somewhat larger because Dwarf craftsmen had been hired to help build it. As a result, its architecture bore a strong Dwarf style.

The buildings above were primarily made of stone, solid, tall, grand, and imposing.

The entire Floating City was also perfectly symmetrical. Its cross-section was nearly circular, while the mountain beneath had been polished extremely smooth. From a distance, it looked like a gigantic inverted cone.

At that moment, magical bells rang throughout Falanis.

This was the clarion call for the imperial army to assemble!

The temporary military camps on the outskirts of Northril sprang into action, and Falanis Floating City accelerated, flying toward the camps.

"It's begun!"

"The moment to avenge the Archon has finally arrived."

Millions of people in the imperial capital thought this. No matter where they stood, their eyes gazed toward the moving Floating City. The crowds on the streets