At this point, not only did Nasir City have a large barrier, but the Fischer family also employed vast financial and material resources to construct an enormous, yet smaller-scale National Defense Barrier across the entire East Coast.
It can be said that in the past ten years, half of the wealth amassed by the Fischer family was spent on the barrier that enveloped the entire East Coast Province.
Although the expenditure was considerable, Byrne always felt it was necessary. In this way, all Monarch Level Extraordinary Exponents, or large, coordinated military forces, would be detected as soon as they entered the East Coast Province.
Thus, the East Coast Province virtually became a "nation within a nation."
However, even with such a barrier in place, there were exceptions, and to this day, Byrne could not understand how the "Winter Keystone" of Thrums, known as the Black Falcon, had silently arrived in Nasir City.
