Yet even the feeling of being watched didn't change the sight before him, it was like if he had just seen night and day.
Outside of the fortress, the world was calm, while there was come movement because the fortress was being repaired it was nothing compared to what was happening inside.
Banners were being hung from the ceiling by insects that followed a small child's guidance, next to that child was a man who was carrying more weight than he should have.
The man was arguing with a woman about something that sounded like the woman hadn't told him what size she wanted one thing or another.
Every room they passed was filled with motion, if one person was doing one thing another person was doing something else.
It was chaos, there was no way that these people could make any progress on anything they were doing.
"What's going on?" his daughter asked the pink-haired girl
"A lot of things" the girl answered his daughter and she gave no hint of wanting to explain the current situation, that is until she took a deep breath and stopped walking.
"Okay, there are a lot of heavy doors here, so we thought about making something that would open them for us, of course, we can just use magic for that so we decided to build it ourselves"
"The problem is that we needed metal so that whatever we built doesn't take too much space and will last long enough for our efforts not to go to waste"
"Then we looked around and found some squeaking doors, but they weren't the problem, it was all of the molds inside, so the chemist is making something to kill all of the mold"
"From there the smiths began to work on repairing a lot of the statues that were already here, but most of us are just decorating," she said to them
He listened to the girl's complaints and realized that the knights had only recently been appointed to this place, which explained why no one knew that the knights were stationed here.
He was about to ask something when he saw a blue window appear in front of the girl, however, it wasn't just her, the blue light of the window came from every direction and as he looks around he found that everyone around him had the same windows floating in front of them.
He watched as the people around them placed a finger on the windows and immediately the windows vanished as quickly as they appeared.
All of a sudden the people around them began to move.
Some picked up whatever they had been working on and left, others simply ignored the commotion going on and continued what they were doing, while others handed whatever materials they had on them to whoever they were working with.
"What just happened?" he asked the girl and he noticed that the smile she had since she first ether was now gone.
"Nothing good" she answered him and the only reason she looked up to see his face was to see if she should tell him anything at all.
"Something must have happened, we were just told to kill anything that can be led around and leave the strongest monsters that are in the ruins," she said to him
He wondered if the girl had just listened to herself, the only reason anyone would do that was if, someone was preparing to invade or...
The realization hit him.
"Is there an invasion coming?" he ake the girl
"I don't know" she answered him before she turned around ad led them deeper into the fortress.
As they walked he found himself looking at an artificer surrounded by forge-born working tirelessly.
"I see that you don't have any mages here," he said to the girl who didn't answer him.
"Welcome to the town o beginnings, we named it after a place we once knew," the girl said to them as she pressed a button and a pair f massive stone doors opened.
The area they had been guided to was a massive room that could easily serve as a spot where training could be done or where those in charge would gather and plan any major conflicts, instead, h found himself looking at entire rooms turned into the living quarters of one person or a group of people.
Some people were cooking food, while others kept busy by sowing clothing and others were looking at gems and before they began to draw the power of the gem and infuse them into the weapons they were working on.
Yet amongst all of them, a group of elves sat quietly watching the people around them go about their days.
His blood boiled to the sight in front of him, Dust Elves, were allowed into the kingdom's only outpost in the frontier.
Dust Elves are the worst of their kind, pride-filled creatures that look down at everyone that isn't an elf, the last he had heard of them was that their kingdom had been attacked and their arrogance had caught up to them.
No one helped them, not even the other elves.
"Ladies gentlemen, thank you for waiting. I'm Asuna, second in command of The Knights of The Blood Oath" Noblewoman greeted him and his group as well as the Dust Eves