"So this is the Imperial Court... It really is magnificent..."
Above the clouds, Lin Hao rode his griffin, letting the fierce wind buffet him as he looked at the towering city ahead.
The mountains serving as its walls seemed to pierce the clouds!
By the standards of this era, this was an extraordinarily enormous city!
The Plas City-State was already magnificent.
But compared with the Imperial Court ahead, it looked like a village.
The Imperial Court lay entirely within an enclosed ring of mountains.
The surrounding mountains formed natural walls, and all bore signs of artificial reinforcement to prevent landslides.
A magnificent fortress over fifty meters tall blocked a gorge in the encircling mountains. This was the Imperial Court's only gate.
The broad Imperial Avenue connected directly to this gate, running straight to the Imperial Plaza before the Imperial Palace.
Two timeworn statues stood there, bearing witness to the empire's trials.
They depicted the emperor of the First Antares Empire and the Dragon Tamer of the Second Antares Empire.
"The Imperial Court, capital of the First and Second Antares Empires, is now also the largest neutral city-state on the Antares Continent.
"The guild headquarters and the venues for mediation between nations are all here. These days, the Imperial Court is maintained by the Peacekeeping Force dispatched by the major kingdoms and guilds. Apart from the Colosseum, it's an absolutely neutral zone where fighting is forbidden..."
Riding his griffin over the fortress walls more than fifty meters high, Lin Hao passed through the Imperial Court's gorge entrance and saw the bustling metropolis within.
The winding river, along with the farms and pastures on the outskirts, ensured that the Imperial Court could remain self-sufficient even under siege.
The former Imperial Palace had now become a public venue resembling a grand theater.
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