🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

Had anyone else been in Shiki's place, they might have cracked a joke about what had just happened, but he was not someone else. The young man and his companion reach Ninamiata after 8 hours on the road. The situation in the city was... excessively calm. It seemed that most of the residents had left, and only military production and particularly stubborn townsfolk remained — and there weren't many of those.

Asmidul himself found nothing funny in this encounter, nor in the previous one...

Along the way, he offered his companion a chance to browse something from his inventory library (other than the diary 😰), if he so wished.

—And there, the famous Ninung Gate and walls are visible from here! Interesting fact: the cyclopes themselves had a hand in their construction, just as they did in the modern fortifications. A detached observer might take them for mindless monsters, but in reality it's quite possible that they, not the Asuguhians, are the true masters of this land. Be that as it may, we owe all our friendly relations with the royal family to them. —finishing this little lecture, he surveys the emptied city from under his glasses. —I believe we should find lodging at the administration building, and in the morning we'll see where we can be of use to the local defenders.