The Blight Clan's primary settlement on Floor Twenty existed in what the demons called the Ashen Clearing.
A circular expanse of pale gray stone surrounded by swampland that reeked of rot and stagnant water.
Dead trees rose from the murky pools like skeletal fingers clawing toward a sky that existed in perpetual twilight.
Their bark wept the same dark fluid that leaked from the Blight Clan members' corrupted skin, creating black streams that ran down twisted trunks to mix with the fetid water below.
The swamp was a place of decay and disease, where everything that grew did so through corruption rather than natural vitality.
Fungi bloomed in colors that pulsed with bioluminescence.
They were beautiful, but highly toxic.
The air carried a thickness that made breathing feel like inhaling something semi-solid, each breath coating lungs with moisture that tasted like mold and death.
Under normal circumstances, the Ashen Clearing served as the clan's gathering space.
