The somewhat rough hand-drawn bark map made by Lu Feng was spread across Sylvia's slender fingers. Beneath the soft glow of the afternoon sun filtered thinly by coastal mist, the ink lines drawn by the Lord of Black Steel City revealed the rough topography of the Tianhua Kingdom's border regions.
According to his notes, the nearest large city from that defensive fortress was Black Lotus City, a medium-scale border city that served as the main trade hub for dozens of smaller fortresses around it. The distance was no less than eighty kilometers from Black Steel City, stretching across the ruins of an old city, a mutated swamp region, and a wilderness forest that had never been touched by cleansing magic.
