The war horns of Atlantis screamed across the crystalline city as Adam's blood turned to molten rage. Baal's colossal frame of writhing shadows and hellfire towered over the northern districts, his presence alone causing the orichalcum spires to crack and weep streams of liquid metal.
Six other titanic silhouettes flanked him in a mountain chain of malevolence—Zagan's serpentine coils wrapped around the eastern peaks, Balam's three-headed form casting triple shadows over the western side, while Purson's leonine bulk lurked on the southern shores.
Beside each demon king, their dukes commanded hulking legions with vicious grins splitting their corrupted faces.
