At an outpost on the periphery of the Sunset Mountains, two guards from Storm City were engaged in a conversation about recent happenings.
"Have you noticed? There's been a surge of Dark Faction adventurers lurking around our station.
Could it be they're plotting an attack on us?" one guard remarked, leaning against the wall of the outpost.
Fatigue was setting in after a full day spent vigilantly monitoring the Dark Realm.
He was chatting with a fellow Storm City guard who was about to take over his shift.
The incoming guard, however, wasn't entirely convinced by his colleague's speculation.
In their view, the Dark Realm hadn't launched an offensive against the Order Faction in quite some time.
And if an attack was to come, it seemed implausible that it would originate from Sunset Mountain, given its challenging terrain.
Besides the series of towering mountains, the area was riddled with canyons, rivers, and marshes.
