C207 The Danger of Life and Death!

Following the throng of the Vermilion Bird Army, Zopyrus made his way toward the Citadel at the heart of Maalnoris. The streets were lined with bodies—old people, men, women, and children—strewn about in haphazard death poses.

A heavy snowfall blanketed the sky, its thick layer obscuring the evidence of atrocities beneath. Surveying the collapsed dwellings and the bodies littering the ground