18+ scenes coming through, you have been warned.
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The throne hall of Babylon's central citadel swallowed them in silence.
Dust hung thick in the air, stirred into lazy spirals by their violent entry. Massive pillars—once carved with the coiled serpents and crowned skulls of Infernal royalty—lay toppled like felled giants, their bases shattered into blackened rubble.
Banners of crimson silk, frayed and scorched, dangled from broken rafters like the shed skins of old promises. The great obsidian throne at the far end had been split clean in two, its seat cracked open as though something immense had once tried to claw its way out from beneath it.
The city beyond the shattered windows was no better.
