Clearford City…
Clearford City no longer looked anything like it used to.
The streets were wrecked. Buildings lay half-collapsed. Fires still burned in places, turning the air acrid and thick with smoke.
Before all this, Clearford had been one of the strongest compounds—second only to Fallen Star City and Atlas City. Its growth had been steady, its systems organized, its people proud.
Then the dimensional rifts opened.
Clearford survived several brutal battles… only to be taken in the end by a group of Flamekin.
And the Flamekin were monsters.
Cruel by nature, openly hateful toward humans. After they occupied the city, they treated enslaving humans like daily entertainment. If they woke up in a bad mood, they'd simply sweep a neighborhood in fire—then stand there listening to the screams, thrilled by the sound.
Since the occupation began, the number of humans burned alive that way had already climbed past a million.
