The terrain of the Shadowy Valley really was as ingenious as Adele had said.
Especially after Pomegranate had followed the NPC across three consecutive suspension bridges, she realized that a direct assault on this area was simply impossible! The roads were far too narrow for large ground forces to pass through, and the half-elves had cunningly left psionic traps along every necessary route.
Little Ashina was certain that if those traps were triggered, they could collapse the only road in and out. In an emergency, the half-elves wouldn't even need to activate them. Simply destroying the suspension bridges would turn three consecutive cliffs, each hundreds of meters high, into a nightmare for any attacker.
The only way to enter this place in force was from the sky or underground.
For example, when Lady Adele had been forced to leave twenty-five years ago, she had driven large numbers of kobolds to dig tunnels from underground straight into the Shadow Valley. Alternatively, an army with enough flying troops could storm the valley stronghold directly.
In that sense, the Shadow Valley's defenses were far from invincible. The problem was that the valley had no rare resources or important targets.
Aside from its terrain, the difficulty of attacking it was completely out of proportion to the reward!
Especially for the gnolls trying to cross from Transia into the mainland, this godforsaken place was utterly worthless. They would never waste manpower attacking it just to turn it into an outpost. It was much too far from Transia.
But conversely, if the people of Transia wanted to stop the gnolls nearby, the valley's terrain would be perfect.
The half-elves who lived here understood this well. They hadn't panicked at the approach of the Black Calamity. As they traveled through the valley, Adele could see that its