The planetary crust beneath Galactic Wall Street split open with a terrifying, apocalyptic roar.
Colossal fissures tore through the granite avenues, swallowing streetlamps, marble fountains, and stone archways into a bottomless abyss.
From twenty miles beneath the earth, seven massive tectonic foundation blocks began to rise into the sky.
Each foundation block was five miles thick, forged from compressed neutron-star adamantine during the First Usury War fifty thousand years ago.
They had served as the indestructible subterranean anchors for Vaults #1 through #7, protecting the ancient usury gold reserves from cosmic collisions.
Vault #1’s foundation was an obsidian block carved with screaming dragon-heads.
Vault #2’s anchor was drenched in petrified blood-jade.
Vault #3’s slab was blackened from thousands of solar flares.
