"Now that… is what I was sold on." Nico grinned as he laid his eyes on the city rising ahead.
Even from more than a kilometer away, the massive white walls surrounding the city commanded attention, with tall watchtowers rising atop its battlements.
"Master," Nom-Nom chirped as she squinted at the huge gates of the first city she had ever laid eyes on, "Do you see all these people? There's so many of them!"
"Yeah… that's a lot of people," Nico replied. He didn't need draconically enhanced eyesight to see the line of people before the gate.
"These must be the people seeking asylum from the Night of the Red Moon," Peko added. Despite her usual stoic expression, even her gaze carried a soft flicker of excitement.
The trio had initially approached from the south, but Amaya had taken them east before dropping them off.
According to the cover story she had given them, they're from a village located on a small island far east of the mainland.
