Steel took a deep breath and said, "I want a thousand soldiers to open the city's entrance and defend it. We're going to welcome Sir Draco home."

"Yes, sir!"

***

Novemton's massively secure gates opened, and a total of a thousand fully armed soldiers stood on both sides of the entrance. Steel had ordered a hundred thousand men to build these gates and walls around the city, which was completed in a few days. These were the walls that protected everyone inside from the monsters. Since Steel was the one who ordered the walls to be built, the survivors call it the Wall of Steel. They looked to him as their leader, and he protected them ardently.

Steel and a few others stood atop the wall and spotted a convoy in the distance. He recognized it as Adrian's convoy.

"Sir Draco's convoy has arrived," Hugh said, Crystal's former subordinate and closest confidant.

After she disappeared, Hugh came under Steel's command and began doing his best to protect everyone in Novemton. The survivo