Whoosh!
"Is this Furnace Fortress?"
As the two emerged from the canyon, everything before them suddenly opened up. At a single glance, they could tell they had entered an entirely different world.
Before Nalant and the others lay a vast, level expanse of open ground.
By Nalant's standards, its size was no less than the area within Maple Leaf City.
Maple Leaf City was a great city capable of housing hundreds of thousands of people.
Across this open ground stood densely packed, disorderly stone houses, scattered every which way. From afar, smoke curled above the rooftops and crowds thronged the streets, making it look exactly like a prosperous human city—a world apart from the forest behind them, where one could travel for three days without seeing a single person.
Of course, that was not the most breathtaking sight. The truly shocking sight lay beyond the open ground.
There stood a towering mountain several hundred meters high. Though it was still some distance away, Nalant and the others could make out one doorway after another on its slopes.
"I'd long heard that the dwarves' Furnace Fortress was actually made by transforming an entire mountain range. Seeing it now, it really is magnificent. Such a huge mountain, and the dwarves actually hollowed it out and turned it into a fortress for living!"
Roel stared blankly at the mountain ahead. Even this young noble from the Blue Shield Empire was deeply shaken.
Though Nalant, as a transmigrator, had seen quite a few grand structures in his previous life, standing here in person still left him equally awestruck.
In fact, White had told him about the wonder of Furnace Fortress two nights ago.
Furnace Fortress had received its name precisely because of this mountain.
Nalant did not know whether this mountain counted as a