Chapter 572 - Wanted Criminal

Up ahead in the distance, a city manifested itself among the mountainous dunes of the desert. Vast of size, and walled on all four sides. Its walls were massive enough that one could simply feel the despair it would take if one were to go against it in a siege war. Towers rose up high with orbs of gold above, spires to see and inspect and detect both intruders and incoming merchants. Large swaths of land which should not belong to a desert were spread all around the city, greenery, where grass and wheat grew. Irrigation trenches cut long seams through the soil and threw thin mirrors of light back at the sun. Wind chimed on brass plates set along the parapets. Watchers paced in patient rhythm. The whole place breathed in measured order, as if the city itself were a living beast that had learned how to survive among dunes that devoured anything careless.