Izmir City was a royal-capital-tier city in the Turkey Region, as well as an important seaport bordering the Aegean Sea.
At that moment, boundless ranks of soldiers surrounded Izmir City's Teleportation Formation, sealing it off as tightly as countless layers of iron walls. A conservative estimate put their numbers at over a hundred thousand. The innermost ring consisted of enormous black iron shields, a man and a half tall and several feet thick, held by heavy infantry clad in massive suits of armor. Those shields linked edge to edge, forming a black iron wall with virtually no gaps. Next came spearmen wielding enormous spears two or three meters long, likewise heavy infantry in thick armor. Countless spears pointed diagonally skyward, densely packed like a forest. Behind them stood Powerful Crossbow Troops in light armor, wielding powerful crossbows.
These three troop types made up the bulk of the densely packed army around the Teleportation Formation, their three-layer arrangement repeating over and over. Scattered among them were small numbers of priests dressed in snowy white, elite warriors in golden brocade robes, and knights and warriors clad in all manner of intricate armor.
Viewed from above, the area for dozens of li around the Teleportation Formation had become an ocean of soldiers, densely packed and poised for battle. Even the tightly clustered buildings around the formation held countless Powerful Crossbow Troops, priests, knights, and others, their weapons gleaming.
Fortunately, a passage three or four meters wide and several li long extended out from the Teleportation Formation. Many people emerging from the formation were making their way out along it, trembling with fear, clearly intimidated by this grim, tightly organized military deployment.
With another activation of the formation, the Greeks crowding the platform departed under the guidance of Turkish soldiers. Only two burly men