A spire with its skeleton exposed in places and its roof gone. The servant of the Marcaponia family who climbed up there surveyed the panorama of Claridium with his eyes and sighed.
"It's as if the God of Death has passed through."
Then he took out a telescope and put it to his eye.
He started by examining what appeared to be the crater at the epicenter of the explosion. The shattered center of Claridium was horrifying just to look at.
"Huh?"
As he surveyed the ruined area, he spotted a strange shape and fixed his lens on it.
Black figures were standing upright at intervals like tombstones on top of the debris of shattered buildings.
He wondered if he had seen wrong and took out a handkerchief to wipe the telescope lens vigorously.
Then he adjusted the lens back and forth to focus again.
Looking again, they had human shapes...
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