Thundercry City

Behind him, Celine, Alice, and Ryoko walked. On his shoulder, Ava.

"Ready to explore?" Vance said looking behind him.

Celine nodded. Alice gave a thumbs up. Ryoko pumped her fist.

"Then let's get going."

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At the edge of the base.

Standing by the edge, Vance looked at their landing point. As Alice, Celine, and Ryoko approached, he turned and began to speak.

"To avoid early detection as people that are... unordinary, I've used magic to cloak us. I believe we all have a method of getting down?"

Alice was the first to respond.

"Yes, I have my wind magic to slow the fall."

Vance nodded.

"Good, and you Ryoko?"

She nodded.

"A fall from this height couldn't even scratch me."

Finally, Vance turned to Celine.

"And you?"

Celine smiled, looked at the edge, and jumped off.

"CELINE!" Alice screamed in panic.

Vance, however, began to smirk.

"You stole my idea."

With those words he turned his back to the edge, crouched down, and jumped off.

Seeing that Vance was calm, Alice took a deep breath and stepped off the edge as wind began to circle around her.

Ryoko, watching everyone go before her, spoke quietly to herself. "Their exits were... rather appealing."

With that, she jumped.

As they approached the ground, Alice lightly landed on one foot, Vance summoned shadows from the ground to break his fall and landed on both feet, Ryoko hit the ground in a crouched pose, and Celine flew down and landed normally.

Vance chuckled. "Yknow, considering the fact that you jumped first, I sort of expected a different landing method."

Celine tilted her head. "Why go out of my way for something like that Master?"

"Fair enough. Well then, let's head to the gate."

The group began the ten minute walk to the gate as Vance uncloaked them. As they approached the gate, Vance couldn't help but admire the massive walls.

"This is the capital city right?"

"Yes, this is the capital of the Rising Dragon Kingdom: Thundercry City." Alice answered

"Thundercry city? Who is naming these places?"

To Vance's surprise, Ryoko was the one that responded.

"To my knowledge, when this kingdom was founded the founder had been accidentally saved by a thunder dragon. So he named his kingdom and capital to honor it."

"Huh. So it was named due to an accident? Pretty interesting honestly."

At the gate to the city were four guards wearing full plate armor and helmets holding spears.

"Halt." Said the shortest of the guards.

The group stopped.

"The city has an entry fee to ensure that no riffraff get in to cause trouble."

"Sounds fair. What's the fee?" Vance questioned.

"Three silver coins per person."

"Quite expensive for an entry fee isn't it?"

"For an ordinary city, yes. For the royal capital of our great kingdom? Very cheap."

"If you say so."

Vance pretended to reach inside his pocket, closed his hand, created twelve blank silver coins which he gave to the guard.

"Then we can go in now?"

The guard nodded.

As they passed the guard, Vance turned to the group and spoke.

"I suppose this is our welcome to Thundercry City."