The plain before Sol-Invictus was vast, flat, and burnt to a dark obsidian ash by centuries of volcanic forge-work.In the center of this scorched expanse rose the imperial capital—a massive, circular metropolis enclosed by three concentric rings of fifty-foot obsidian walls. At its core, towering like a mountain of dark gold, stood the Sunken Palace, its high spires gleaming under the harsh midday sun.Arrayed across the ash-covered plain, stretched out in a line two miles long, stood the Sovereign Alliance.Four thousand heavy Sovereign Guards in silver-and-crimson armor formed the solid front ranks, their tower shields locked together in an unbroken wall of steel. On the flanks, fifteen hundred Sylph archers stood in loose formation, their wind-infused arrows resting on bowstrings. Positioned at regular intervals along the rear line, sixteen heavy Solar-Bane Ballistae and eight Verdant Nature Cannons were angled upward, their iron barrels aimed directly at the city's
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