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stopped on impact. Steve smiled, looking back at it as he galloped out of the death filled arena. His smile turned upside down when he saw a dead warrior lying next to the phoenix. I guess it wasn’t an enemy monster, he bitterly thought.
    Steve exited out of the eastern side of the arena and analyzed the scale of destruction. Now that his view of the city wasn’t blocked by the walls of the stadium, he could see much more of the devastation. The flaming boulders had wreaked havoc on the section of Celestial he was in. There were huge pillars of smoke rising up from buildings all around him that had collapsed or been completely burned down. Steve followed the pillars with his eyes and looked up to the sky. Amazing colorful blasts of elements were being shot between enemy and friendly flying monsters, exploding into a bright flash when a target was hit.
    Ty will be up there within minutes. Steve thought about where his own duty as a warrior would lead him. In the far distance, high above the buildings, he saw the top of the King’s Tower. He lashed his reins against Clyx and headed north for his destination, the castle.
    Along the way, he used Brightflame to cut down monsters from behind that were also headed to the castle. Some of them he killed seconds before they were about to kill a Celestial civilian. People were running and screaming in the streets. Many were limping or bloody. Some were carrying the lifeless bodies of loved ones. Everyone was trying to get into the protection of their homes and avoid the death and destruction from being out in the open.
    Steve was trying to put the pieces together and understand the attack as he rode. Why didn’t the warriors in the outer towers sound their alarm horns? The monsters must have gotten catapults into the farmlands to launch their flaming boulders into the city. They should have been seen from miles away. Somehow, monsters were already in the city. For the first time in Celestial’s history, the enemy had made it past the inner wall.
    The inner wall was one of three fortifying walls in the Celestial City. The other two walls were the castle wall and the outer wall. The outer wall separated the wilderness from the farmlands. It marked the end of the actual circle of Celestial. It was the shortest of the three walls, at only ten feet high. It was high enough so that monsters or wild animals would not be able to vault over it without ladders or some sort of aid. The next wall was the inner wall, which separated the farmlands from the buildings of the city. It stood at fifty feet and was much thicker than the outer wall. The castle wall was the partition between the city and the castle. This barrier was the tallest and thickest, standing at a massive seventy-five feet high.
    Just like how the three barrier walls grew from shorter (on the outside) to taller (closer to the castle), the buildings of Celestial were built similarly. From far away, the Circle City was shaped like a giant tent. The buildings around the edge were shorter, but gradually inclined as they moved closer towards the King’s Tower (the highest point of the castle and the exact center point of the city).
    The farthest buildings from the castle, closet to the inner wall, were the smallest and shortest. This was the largest section of the city that featured the most houses. They belonged to the less fortunate residents. That was not to say they were poor though, because compared to any other city in the kingdom, they were financially blessed.
    Tiny snakelike dirt roads maneuvered in between the small houses, alleyways, and dead end streets. If someone didn’t know where they were going, they could easily get lost in the tangled maze.
    The closer you got to the castle, the wider and larger the roads grew, just like the houses. There were fewer of these larger and taller buildings of course because the circumference of the circle got smaller the further you traveled inwards, towards the center. Celestial was