They reached Monte City without incident, and Ye Chuqi's understanding of the world was overturned once again.
She finally understood the difference between a city and a town. Liao Leaf Town was a town of ordinary size. Though plenty of people went there on vacation, its scale was nowhere near as astonishing as Kru Town's. Kru Town might have called itself a "town," but it dwarfed most small cities. As the birthplace of the Adventurers' Guild, it was in a league of its own.
Monte City showed Ye Chuqi that the gulf between a big city and a town was beyond even an oversized place like Kru Town.
Every three years, Monte City faced a massive Beast Tide. Adventurers came from far and wide to help each time, but over thousands of years, the city had still accumulated countless scars of war.
The towering walls were covered in mottled marks, scars left by destruction and repair, time and again. Even Xiao Bu's tall, imposing figure looked tiny beside the Monte City Wall. A human standing beneath it was no bigger than an ant.
The Monte City Wall was black. Perhaps it had originally been built from sturdy bluestone, but repeated soakings of blood had long since robbed the ancient wall of its color. Now, every repair involved coating fresh bluestone with black ghost stone and deliberately weathering it. The result looked ancient and formidable, and the weight of so much bloodshed inspired awe.
Ye Chuqi murmured, "So bluestone is sturdier than black ghost stone?"
Duwak glanced at Ye Qinglan and answered first. "In terms of physical defense alone, bluestone really can't compare to black ghost stone. But black ghost stone has an obvious weakness: it softens when exposed to fire. Every Beast Tide brings High-Rank Magic Beasts with a strong