The massive bronze-trimmed double doors of the High Throne Room blasted open under Kaka's roaring axe strike, crashing against the frozen stone pillars.
Inside stretched a vast, vaulted hall of black marble and ancient glacial ice, illuminated by heavy iron chandeliers burning with sickly blue alchemical fire.
At the far end of the hall, seated upon a towering throne of jagged iron and mammoth bone, sat General Senraki (The Elder).
The General was clad in ornate, frost-etched plate armor, his weathered northern face carved with decades of ruthless war and absolute arrogance.
Twin heavy northern war sabers rested across his knees, while a dozen elite frost-armored bodyguards flanked the throne steps with drawn greatswords.
Seeing the intruders, the old General's gaze swept past Sagiri and Kaka, locking directly onto the slender figure walking in white tactical robes.
