Chapter 99: “That Time I Got Trained on After Running a Marathon”
After running for a while longer, Blanc’s group could finally see the mountain of rubble that Magenta had described. It seemed that the city originally sat on raised land, but now the entire hill seemed to be made out of dirt and wreckage.
“Whoa… This is… super crazy…”
Blanc had kind of been looking forward to seeing it, but her excitement had been completely wiped away upon taking in the scene. She couldn’t even imagine how powerful someone needed to be in order to do something like this. It had to have been a player, but if hypothetically it wasn’t, then Blanc and her followers couldn’t possibly beat it.
“If it were a monster that was specifically good at destroying rocks or buildings or something, then we could maybe do something about it, but…”
“Even if that were true, that doesn’t change the fact that it killed off all the defenders and citizens of a city of this size before it even got to that part…”
No joke. This was a city the size of this gigantic hill. It was probably the heart of this entire region. Blanc couldn’t even begin to imagine how large its standing army had been.
“…Those people from the last city, I wonder why they didn’t come here looking for help.”
“It’s possible that… they already knew what had happened here, but I think it was simply a matter of distance. There was probably some place that wasn’t as far away to the northwest of the city.”
That was the obvious explanation. It made more sense to look for help from a smaller but closer town rather than a larger city that was further away.