Leo, Victor, and the others stood at the front of their assembled force, thirty thousand elite players gathered under the banner of the Renegade Alliance. They had all converged on the coordinates Ethan had sent, waiting like a coiled spring for the first major strike of the war.
A full kilometer ahead, a fortress rose like a carved mountain, its new stone walls towering so high they almost seemed unreal. This was the fortress Ethan had singled out, the one he intended to conquer and transplant their guild hall into, an audacious plan before the first battle even began.
It was the southernmost fortress in the Harmony City zone, positioned right at the edge of the regional war frontier. It was also one of only four Advanced tier fortresses in the region, although people joked it was technically three and a half. Three belonged completely to Harmony City, while this one straddled the border, half claiming Harmony's side and half rooted in Springhaven's territory.
