But Raylo knew that time was running out for him and the Thunder Dragon Duchy.
This impending storm, set to sweep across the entire Continent, was one no one could escape.
A week passed quietly amidst the unending clamor of the construction site.
The foundation work for Black Stone City was essentially complete.
The once uneven, ruin-strewn land had been completely leveled, transformed into a vast, solid expanse of black earth.
Like tireless worker ants, a temporary convoy of Earth Dragons and Mammoths worked day and night, hauling massive, roughly-cut stones from a quarry deep within the Black Stone Mountain Range.
With their terrifying Giant Strength, the Hill Giants stacked these massive stones one by one, forming the nascent shape of the city's thick, Solid outer walls.
A new, magnificent city was rising from the ruins at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was a pleasant, sunny afternoon.
