The Underworld, Heim!
It was a place forever shrouded in gloom!
This enormous planet was surrounded by a meteorite belt more than 6,000 kilometers wide...
For sunlight to reach this place, it had to pass through reflections off those densely packed meteorites...
There was no day or night here. It was gloomy all the time, leaving anyone who came here feeling unbearably oppressed.
The Underworld, Heim, had temperatures that ordinary people could not endure...
Temperatures hovering around minus 100 degrees year-round made this a forbidden zone for life.
And it truly was a forbidden zone for life. Nothing here held any vitality; all around stretched endless mountains of corpses and seas of bones.
In this vast, boundless Underworld, a "city" stood...
Someone had built a "city" at the foot of a nearly vertical cliff!
Huge quantities of bones mixed with clay had been used to build the city walls.
The daily battles had not yet begun...
Thousands of towering warriors gripped heavy hammers, pouring bone-mixed clay over the walls and pounding it into place...
Using the simplest methods, they had built several rammed-earth walls in the Underworld, each thirty meters tall.
Those seemingly crude walls were enough to keep the wandering undead monsters outside at bay.
The warriors above had countless ways to wear down the undead monsters that could attack at any moment.
Only around a hundred thousand soldiers were stationed in the city, and not one of them was idle. They were either honing their martial skills or using the materials at hand to make all kinds of arrows...
There were no houses in the "city." The soldiers here seemed to have no need for such things!
The most striking feature was a massive platform in the center of the city...
Two blue orbs were mounted atop a