Bab 98: Watcher's Retreat

Wagons were arriving by the dozens every day to a large fort on the edge of a vast plain. At the other end of the plains, the terrain began to turn into rocky hills painted in different shades of browns and grays.

The two biomes seemed to blend somewhat in the transition, though from far away, it simply appeared to be a hard cutoff from one place to the next, as if the gods cut out the land between and stitched these two together.

The fort on the edge of the grassland was called Watcher's Retreat. It was the main fort on the Union's border with Alorek and reporting to it were a series of lookout towers.

One such place, Urntote Tower, had been taken almost overnight a few weeks ago, and just over the rocky hills on the edge of the grasslands, the Five Kings Union have been holding back the Alorekan army from advancing, but things were not looking good.