Chapter 553: The Shadow on the Mountain Throne

The capital of the Mountain Giants was not built upon a mountain, but within one. Named Uru-Thol, the Mountain Throne, it was a colossal feat of primeval engineering. The entire peak had been hollowed out over millennia, its heart replaced by a city of stone and shadow, a vertical metropolis connected by massive ramps and bridges carved from the living rock. To assault such a fortress from the outside was suicide. Infiltration was their only path. Under the cloak of a moonless night, the allied...