96 The Martial Alliance

A large number of warriors and martial artists were streaming out of one of the largest and most impressive buildings in the city. It seemed to be one of the few 'standalone' buildings, with no connections from any of the layers around it, as if they were just circling the upper floors of the building.

The only entrance was down on the bottom layer. This showed just how long this place had been here, nearly since the very beginning of Arcadum's existence. It was even within the confines of the first wall that had been built, before the city had been expanded outward with that huge ring around the whole city.

But even though this was the oldest part of the city, crammed with buildings everywhere, the bottom layer here was incredibly different compared to the outer parts of the city. There, everything was dirty. A constant smell of mold floated through the air. But here, it was clean, or rather, as clean as it could be in a highly-populated city like this.