The southeastern part of the Ten Directions Island Domain, Tian Yuan City.
This city, built in less than two years, was already imposing. Dozens-of-meters-high walls towered over the land, lined with formidable defensive weapons. Countless well-equipped soldiers patrolled back and forth along the walls, displaying Tian Yuan City's military strength.
Although the high-end battlefield above the Legendary Realm ultimately decided the outcome of a war, the routine extermination of monsters and governance of the city still relied mainly on these ordinary soldiers.
These soldiers standing ramrod straight atop the walls and before the gates, patrolling the streets, were also the most direct reflection of a city's defensive strength.
"Judging only from the city's surface scale, Tian Yuan City is already no weaker than Shiling Town was back then."
Using that comparison, it seemed somewhat inferior.
Mu Yuan still remembered how deeply shocked and envious he had been when he first arrived at Shiling Town, especially by its towering walls and the huge war cannons mounted upon them.
At that time, Shiling Town had been under construction for three or four years. Since the territory itself was only Grade 4, it had been named a "town."
In reality, however, as an official important frontline town, a settlement second only to Boulder City, Shiling Town had received enormous funding from the alliance.
Shiling Town possessed permanent Outstanding-Grade wall blueprints, along with countless Rare- and Outstanding-Grade defensive weapons.
It also had elite official troops transferred there by the alliance.
It even had hundreds of thousands of permanent residents, as well as hundreds of thousands of traveling explorers and adventurers.
The entire Shiling Town was enormous. Let alone comparing it with Grade 4 or Grade 5 territories—even most cities painstakingly built by Great Lords could not compare with an official stronghold.
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