Vol 5 Chapter 49 (1/2)

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at 29th of September 2019 04:35:08 PM

Chapter 49

Book 5, Chapter 49 - Southern Sanctuary

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Skycloud

South Haven, also called the Southern Sanctuary

It was the key hold of Skycloud’s southern lands, situated in the center of its vast plainsFlat land extended hundreds of kilometers in every direction with hardly any rippleThis fortress erected at its heart rose like a gli mountain

Sanctuary’s construction was uniqueThe stronghold itself was massive in scale with eleven sections from periphery to coreIts outer walls were short but each successive barrier grew higher and the spaces in betere as expansive as small townsPassed the eleventh as the fortress center, and the stronghold’s highest pointWithin was an expansive square capable of holding over ten thousand people

Thus, the fortress was essentially a series of rings arranged frohFrom a distance it looked like a layered pyramid, stately and firm

It also was protected by powerful enchante, tenacious shi+eld encased everything

No opportunity existed for a sneak attack, and its defenses were secondary only to Skycloud’s capitolWhat enelorious Sanctuary was a fortress erected during the tireat warMore than twenty thousand soldiers were stationed behind its walls along with a fleet of airshi+ps, all responsible for the defense of Skycloud’s southern region

It was impossible for such an installation to be easily overcoreat wall, but while it was in the process the Elysian lands were not left defenselessOn one border was the expeditionary force, while to the south they were protected by the SanctuaryThose forces together wouldto push into SkycloudAs present the expeditionary force had cohold’s standard troops and Skycloud’s are array of fighters

Alone they were formidableBehind Sanctuary’s walls and enchantments they were even more insurmountable

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Explosive news had spread through the real mistress of the Polaris family, the traitor Daould be burned alive within Sanctuary in three days’ tih Skycloud’s citizens

It was not but six o that the Polaris family was one of Skycloud’s most powerful and respected familiesIt was the only fa the likes of the CloudesLess than a year after the War God’s demise, however, his brood had suffered an unprecedented declineNow, they weren’t even considered a second-tier family

What’s more, their most noble and cherished mistress was soon to be executed for the crime of treasonHer fate was sealed the moment she was cast as a traitor to her peopleIt was unthinkable that a family of a hundred years of doeneration

War was co to Sanctuary, that much was knownIt was not a trick or some underhanded plotSkycloud held all the cards

The wastelanders knew they alking into the enemy’s hands, and Skycloud knew the barbarians would try and break passed their defensesIndeed it was a clever decision to set the stage of their conflict in Sanctuary, but also there were obvious shortco their doors to thesethe wolves into the hen houseEvery town, village and hamlet prepared for the worst

From Skycloud City in the center, to key installations in every direction, they all gathered their soldiers and bolstered their defenses in case the wastelanders merely pretended to protect the south so that they could assault somewhere different

Hahest pointFroht now all he saas a verdant expanse stretching to the horizonHe had the iendary beast laying contentedly upon a blanket of green paradise

He looked down at the successively larger rings spreading out belowHe saw soldiers crawling along every building and down every street

The troops had wasted no ti battleTowers had been erected both for offense and defenseSanctuary holly prepared to face a threat anywhere it ht appearAll of theSanctuary’s eleven walls were le was defended and supported by nearby troops

A defense like this was stronger than any warshi+pThe wastelanders were dreah this array of towers

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Hammont lifted his eyes and looked to either side at the hundred or more airshi+psThey hovered in the air nearby in s orders, ready to act at a moment’s noticeSanctuary rapped up in it, so that an attack from any side would receive air support