Volume Twenty-One: The Dark Road, Chapter Seven: Field Team

Over the daunting Pyrenees Mountains, under the bewildered gazes of the soldiers stationed at the pass, Komer and his entourage set foot on the road leading into the Flanders Valley. The path descending north from the Pyrenees was steep, a gradient harsh for mortals but considered only slightly challenging by the barbarians. Accustomed to the undulating peaks of the Cordillera Wilderness, the insurmountable Pyrenees to mortals were but a formidable obstacle, with a degree of difficulty, to the barbarians.

However, it seemed that the barbarians were not inclined to exhaust their living forces on overcoming such difficulties. Compared to the treacherous Pyrenees, the mouth of the Meyrin River Valley to the east was much easier to penetrate, and precisely situated at the border between the Kingdom of Shimaina and the Iberian Kingdom—a natural weak point, and an optimal target for the barbarians' strikes.