In the four directions around Berely City, the Dragon Mountain Empire's army designated four areas, each dozens of miles long and wide. Earth-element mages raised towering earthen walls, then used magic that turned mud into stone to transform them all into the sturdiest rock. Saint-level mages who commanded the metal element then stepped in and converted those rock walls into metal.
Such transformations undoubtedly consumed an enormous amount of magical power, but backed by the Dragon Mountain Empire's vast resources, four gigantic prisoner camps took shape completely in just three days. Each was enclosed by steel walls a hundred meters high and densely arrayed with countless confinement arrays and anti-flight arrays.
The metal walls, a hundred meters high and dozens of meters thick, radiated a cold blue-gray gleam. Smooth as mirrors, their surfaces faintly flickered with countless magical patterns. Under the sunlight, they resembled icebergs, inspiring dread at a glance. Countless fully armed soldiers patrolled the walls with powerful bows, crossbows, long spears, and halberds in hand, ready at any moment to kill any foreign prisoner who dared approach.
Batch after batch of foreign prisoners from every direction were driven stumbling into the camps. Their hands and feet were bound in heavy shackles forged from abyssal black mystic iron; even Heaven-rank experts could not break free of these exceptionally sturdy and incomparably heavy restraints. Those foreigners stronger than the Heaven rank had specially made confinement collars placed around their necks, completely sealing all their magic and battle energy. Worse still, those special collars could explode at any time, blasting their heads to pieces.
Whether they were lowly servant orcs such as kobolds and hyena-men, high-ranking imperial princes of the three great orc royal clans, or enormous mixed-blood wild giants and Titans, great masses of orcs were brutally herded into the