"The Temple of Eternal Twilight," Nicholas announced, placing a weathered scroll at the center of the war table where Roman, Melo, and the Beast Emperor's representatives had gathered. "All evidence points to this location as the Final Sanctuary."
Four days had passed since Klaus's abduction. The tension in the command center was palpable as Nicholas unrolled detailed maps of the continental divide region, marking specific coordinates with precise confidence.
"The surface ruins are merely decoys," he explained, indicating architectural diagrams recovered from the Eastern Archives. "The true sanctuary lies beneath—a complex of chambers designed specifically to thin barriers between dimensions during certain celestial alignments."
Roman studied the diagrams with calculated skepticism. "These chambers have remained undiscovered despite centuries of imperial surveys."
