Aynor was unique among the big cities on Earth. Unlike the others, Aynor was almost entirely devoid of the usual, extensive slums that would surround those capitals' defensive walls, and most of it had to do with its location.
The First Impact had scarred Earth beyond recognition, and the Global Army had preferred to salvage and rebuild only parts of it before focusing on space expansions, leaving everything else to its desolate, mutated, and broken state.
Those lands that humankind had left to die were prime locations for criminal activities and illegal structures, but Aynor stood proudly as an exception.
Fuming, radioactive, and scorching red rivers ran across a white desert that expanded all around Aynor's defensive walls. The city was in the middle of a death zone that could kill any unprepared person and most weaker warriors on the spot, but great benefits existed among that deadly danger.
