When Ash walked to the gates of the fortress, a few soldiers moved to greet him and quickly ushered them in respectfully.
The normal citizens who would be moving in here were greatly impressed by the strength of their Queen's personal soldiers and they were more in awe at how their Queen had developed the place.
The bloody-looking fortress looked quite menacing and intimidating from outside, but inside, everything was so different. The streets were clean with the potholes of the road and any debris from the previous time Ash and the others assaulted this place were filled in and cleaned up by the soldiers.
There were even soldiers still out there fixing some buildings and bringing in materials for construction and development. They stored those materials inside warehouses that Maria had
