As the snowstorm started blowing again, the massive, six-foot-tall man walked through the city's opal walls, and the guards greeted him. He wasn't a stranger but was mostly alone, except for several soldiers who were walking behind him, having been saved by him.
Arad and his comrades have stopped the main orc invasion, but not all of the small skirmishes. When Gamond enclosed the Arctic North, she sealed off the biggest rift where millions of orcs would show up, but there were countless other small cracks all around the north, which were the threat the soldiers of Gojo's kingdom were dealing with.
This man was called Neil, a former S-ranker, who is now retired. He was out hunting in the storm when he came across the soldiers and adventurers clashing with the stray orc skirmishes, and he had saved them.
