I descended and landed softly in front of the main palace. The shadow of its walls swallowed me whole, and for a moment I simply stared upward.
It wasn't just large, it stretched so high into the sky that I had to tilt my head back until my neck ached. The structure rose in stacked tiers, each section slightly narrower than the one below, like a tower built to scrape the heavens.
From a distance, the palace had looked like one solid block of black stone, but as I came closer the details began to take shape. The structure wasn't seamless at all. It was divided into clear sections, each layer split by long horizontal ledges. I counted them one by one. Seven in total.
Above those tiers rose eleven towers, scattered across the main body of the palace. They weren't uniform either, each tower had its own height, like steps in a staircase reaching for the sky.
