Chapter 457 - River Rock!

The Ancient Matrix AwakensThe air in the main training field of Starlight Academy hummed with the thrum of discharged energy and the rhythmic thud of fists meeting practice dummies. The field itself was a vast expanse of interlocking metal plates under a perpetually grey, smog-filtered sky. This was Nova Bastion, one of the last great fortified cities of humanity, and from the top of the academy's central tower, you could see the colossal, fifty-meter-high walls that kept the horrors of the outside world at bay.