Golden Crow City lay on the edge of Sun River Prefecture in You Province, less than a thousand kilometers from Tigerhold City. For ordinary people, the journey from Golden Crow City to Tigerhold City might still be rather long. Whether by train or airship, it would take quite some time. But for a knight—especially an Earth Knight like Zhang Tie—flying a thousand kilometers was practically like stepping out from home to stroll through the market. Even without using God's Dominator, he could easily reach Tigerhold City in under an hour.
After the New Year, You Province had seen no more snow after the fifth day of the first lunar month. Yet the weather remained bitterly cold, especially these past few days. As the snow began to melt, the biting chill in the air grew even sharper.
Flying through the sky, Zhang Tie looked down at the mountains, rivers, and earth blanketed in white. Before long, at just before two in the afternoon, he arrived above Tigerhold City and dropped like lightning straight into an alley in a sparsely populated residential district near the city's port.
After landing in the alley, Zhang Tie pulled up the snow hood of his cloak and fastened its clasp. In an instant, most of his face was concealed, leaving only his brows and eyes visible. Anyone looking at him could tell only that he was probably young; there was no way to know whose face lay beneath that hood.
With Zhang Tie's current fame in You Province, especially in Tigerhold City, only by doing this could he avoid being recognized the moment he stepped onto the streets.
These days, Zhang Tie had spent every day at home with his family. Though he received some news from outside, it was always secondhand and never sufficiently direct.