The trio continued to make their way under the cover of night for another two kilometers, with Talon City coming into view.
It was a steel metropolis with walls reaching a hundred meters high.
Towering chimneys, like the fingers of a giant, poked into the grey sky, endlessly spewing thick, rolling smoke.
The city walls were made of heavy, massive iron plates, pieced together with rivets, and covered in patchy rust and war-inflicted craters and holes.
But most striking of all were the countless, innumerable cannons!
With barrel diameters spanning several meters and lengths extending dozens of meters, the super-sized cannons were as common as hedgehog spikes, densely packed.
The entire city was, in essence, a fortress of steel.
Although Leonard Churchill had seen photographs in the newspaper, witnessing this exaggerated Machinery City with his own eyes shook him deeply.
This steampunk-style Machinery City had an indescribable sense of magic about it.
