The capital remained heavily entrenched behind a condensed defensive wall that exclusively protected the royal castle and the central district, effectively safeguarding the territory housing the most expensive and old architectural structures.
It remained a highly advantageous position for defense. A drastically shortened, hyper-dense perimeter was logistically simple to garrison.
However, this consolidation demanded a tactical cost; it forced Ren's star-shaped prison outside the boundaries of the inner wall.
The huge structure was left entirely unprotected, sitting isolated on the open abandoned city of Yino while the mechanical dragon and its ancient artifacts tirelessly scratched away from the inside, desperately attempting to carve a subterranean exit leading directly into the chamber beneath Yino's former castle.
It was impossible to add because it rested at the other side of the huge rift, it would be almost the same logistical nightmare as it was defending both cities.
