Over at Nolun Workshop, the steel fortress continues to "grow."
This is not metaphorical, but a description of reality.
Under the continuous work of hundreds of Alchemy Wizards, the walls of the fortress thicken and heighten at a pace visible to the naked eye.
The originally hundred-meter high walls have increased, the surface no longer simply black metal but showing complex composite material textures.
The inner layer is an energy-absorbing honeycomb structure, the middle is self-repairing memory metal, and the outer layer is hardened alloy mixed with anti-magic powder.
Yet this is merely a node in Nolun Workshop's defensive system.
Looking around, centered on this fortress numbered "7," steel fortresses of similar style but differing details stand every few kilometers on the gray-white wasteland to its left and right sides.
Every fortress is undergoing reinforcement operations synchronously.
From the start, the wizards never intended to fight individually.
