The heavy bronze gates of the eastern corridor did not just swing open. They were blown completely off their hinges by pneumatic pistons.
Two thousand mechanized cultivator suits marched into the lower galleries in tight, disciplined rows.
Their heavy plate armor was forged from cursed black titanium, laced with purple spirit-conductive copper wire. Twin rotary plasma cannons hummed on their shoulders, tracking targets with glowing red laser sights that cut through the ocean gloom.
Behind them walked six heavily armored figures, their capes trailing dark miasma across the cracked tiles.
[TARGET SCAN: OUROBOROS SECTOR DIRECTORS 7 THROUGH 12]
[SEVENTH DIRECTOR GENERAL VANCE (GOODNESS: -85/100)]
[EIGHTH DIRECTOR IRON-BARON KRUPP (GOODNESS: -84/100)]
[NINTH DIRECTOR LADY CYDORIS (GOODNESS: -83/100)]
