Desolate North Imperial City.
This steel fortress was thick with the smells of rust, sweat, and gunpowder.
After Prince Ortis nodded with slight hesitation, it finally and quietly ushered in a gentle storm of change.
Princess Tami's Desolate North education plan officially began.
Her Highness acted with decisive efficiency.
She rejected the proposal for a symbolic, lavish building in the inner city.
Instead, she chose the Outer City District as the site for the temporary academy!
"It must take root in the soil that needs it!"
She made the final decision to establish it in an old warehouse district in the outer city.
Before the requisitioned old warehouses in the Outer City District, entirely different sounds were trying to take root in this land of rust for the first time.
They were no longer the clash of blades, but the roar of machines.
The former owners of the warehouses received several spatial rings of equal capacity, along with a sum of Denar, as compensation.
Desolate North's poverty was only relative.
For Princess Tami, even paying out of her own private treasury was enough to settle such minor matters.
Her plans for large-scale construction would have consumed too much time.
She knew full well that Desolate North's resources had to be used where they mattered most.
That was why she had set her sights on these old warehouses in the Outer City District.
These warehouses, built using traditional Saland North craftsmanship, had remarkably sturdy structural frames.
Only their surfaces were coated in years of rust and dust.
That very afternoon, Tami led her personal guards and a temporarily reassigned battalion of city-defense engineers onto the site.
The heart of the renovation was clearing, reinforcing, and making the space practical.
Using pulley systems and thick ropes, the engineers dragged away mountains of