Halia
Setting off a day later than planned, the party made their way further into the eastern border. Since they weren't able to get any information from the first city, they decided to make a beeline towards the largest city in the eastern border, Halia.
The city was much bigger compared to New York and even had large defensive towers with weapons on top that were directed towards the sea.
It was a port city where quite a few boats were visible from the road.
With sea monsters attacking occasionally, the levels of the demons in the city was much higher. Most of them were ready to fight at a moment's notice since the sea monsters don't send notices of attack.
While driving to Halia, Shiro had sent drones to scout ahead and noticed that the most powerful mana signal here was only in the late 300's almost 400. But it belonged to a lone demon rather than a candidate which caused Shiro to wonder where the candidates have disappeared to.