The group continued deeper into the burning city, moving carefully with great vigilance through streets buried beneath soot and ash.
The more they explored, the more Clyde realized that this place looked strangely familiar.
The buildings were not the medieval structures he had encountered in most of the Ruins before this in his previous missions. Tall buildings rose on both sides of the streets, some of them still reaching dozens of floors into the smoke-filled sky. Several skyscrapers still stood despite being partially destroyed with their glass windows shattered and their steel frames exposed beneath the flames.
This had once been a modern world. But now there was almost nothing left of it.
Entire blocks had been consumed by fire. Some buildings collapsed onto the streets, others were still standing as enormous blackened shells.
Flames still burned inside several structures, occasionally sending chunks of burning debris falling onto the streets below.
