A towering, dilapidated city stood upon the plains, abruptly entering An Jin's field of vision. A flicker of surprise flashed through her dark pupils.
"Is this… the Beast Slave King City?" She reached up, pushed back the hood obscuring her view, and glanced around.
Behind the desolate Royal City stretched a bleak grassland that gave way to a Gobi desert of yellow sand and rubble in the distance. The mountain ranges hemming it in on three sides were like the bars of a cage, exuding an invisible, oppressive air.
According to the system's data, the Beast Slave King City was one of the four great Royal Cities. Although it ranked last among them, its population of several hundred thousand and its territory spanning dozens of miles far surpassed that of ordinary cities and some obscure, lesser Royal Cities.
