Doesn't it? I have been told of great monsters outside of the magical fence that surrounds this place, land once lost that is now overrun and might be reclaimed.

[When he'd arrived, he'd been offered a position with the perimeter guard and he hadn't hesitated to accept. The rumors of monsters came from his fellow fighters, surely they weren't lies.]

I do not plan to die here, though. Fight. And win. But not die.