The Skyrail arrived at the southern district terminal with a soft hiss of equalizing pressure.
Nova and Kaelith disembarked separately, maintaining their mutual distance as they descended the platform stairs. A ten-minute walk through increasingly rural terrain brought them to what had once been an ordinary suburban town.
Now it was anything but ordinary.
The streets teemed with warriors of every description — some carrying spears taller than themselves, others with massive greatswords strapped across their backs, still more with firearms both conventional and exotic. Cold weapons and hot weapons. Men and women. Young fighters barely out of their teens and grizzled veterans with scars mapping decades of survival.
This was Hunter's Haven — the Abyssal Rift town located in Thornhaven City's southern sector.
Two stable spatial tears existed here: one Tier 1 Abyssal Rift and one Tier 2 Abyssal Rift, both heavily monitored by military garrison forces.
