The ruins of Breeze City stood silent beneath the snow.
More than Star-Moon Bay, this place left people speechless... It held countless memories for Annan, Olmedo, Copperbeard, and many others.
Many unforgettable stories that changed Annan's future had happened here.
Now frost climbed the battered City Wall, much of which had collapsed. The Urban District lay in ruins, scarred by a terrifying Great Pit that covered nearly a fifth of the city.
At the center of the Great Pit stood the ruins of the Mage Tower.
The Mage Tower's final explosion had left nothing for the Ratfolk.
Free City, which had blotted out the sky moments ago, suddenly looked tiny beside Breeze City. It could not even fill the Great Pit left by the Mage Tower's explosion.
Breeze City had been the last stronghold at the foot of the Snow Mountains, defended by a Mage Tower with a Legendary mage in residence. Naturally, it had been magnificent... That was all in the past, but there were likely still plenty of Ratfolk inside.
Since they were already here, Olmedo gave the eager Hellfire Legion and Guard Legion permission to advance.
There should not be any particularly powerful Ratfolk in the city. Every rat they killed was one fewer rat to worry about.
Gale agreed—the Stuen Ratfolk and McKennan Ratfolk had been at odds lately.
The McKennan Clan did not know who was behind it, but they knew their Puppet had been replaced by a "Puppet" of the Stuen Clan. While making trouble for the Stuen Clan, they were also gathering a Rat Tide to attack the Kingdom.
The Stuen Ratfolk refused to back down. They had less power on the Northern Frontier than the McKennan Ratfolk, whose entire clan had come here, but they had spent centuries establishing themselves in the