The battlefield ruins outside the city were strewn with giant javelins, battered machinery and armor, and half-buried bones. The scene looked bleak and desolate.
Yet after all these years, the towering, magnificent walls of the City of Rhodey still stood.
From a distance, the walls were crowded with people, and there seemed to be quite a few defenders.
Besides that, various empowered divine-rune defenses had lit up along the walls. The enormous statues of Tree Sentinel knights still stood on either side of the city gate, while the shining Golden Tree, bright enough to illuminate the ground, naturally occupied nearly half the sky, turning everything into a dazzling sea of gold.
That was everything the allied army from Stormveil saw when it reached the main gate of the inner city of the Royal Capital Rhodey and deployed outside the battlefield ruins.
It had already been a full month since that troublesome little girl had entered the Three Fingers' sealed prison chamber.
During that time, she had not appeared before anyone or anywhere. Aside from making countless people who cared about her worry themselves sick, she had also kept the dragon-clad Tree Sentinel in the capital and many Rhodey knights on high alert, standing guard day and night for an entire month.
Yet until today, when Stormveil's fifty thousand "Fiery Eyes" troops, together with the Carian royal family and Caelid's reinforcements, had broken through the Great Dectus Lift, the Altus Plateau crossroads, and the outer walls of the capital before reaching the battlefield ruins and beginning to surround the inner walls, that troublesome little girl queen still had not appeared.
No one knew where she had gone, nor whether she was alive or dead...
Regardless, both Stormveil's allied army and the defenders inside the Royal Capital Rhodey knew one crucial fact: