Chapter 4: Skyox City’s Grimgate Station

Chapter 4: Skyox City’s Grimgate Station

Standing at the heart of Skyox City, right beside its lone Grimway Station, I took a moment to absorb everything around me—the marvels of Grim-tech, the sleek flying vehicles streaking overhead, the condensed-light billboards casting shifting colors across the streets. It was futuristic, dazzling... yet not what I had imagined.

The infrastructure broke the illusion. Instead of towering skyscrapers piercing the clouds, the buildings here rose no higher than thirty meters, sprawling outward for acres instead of reaching upward. The reason was simple: flying grimmons preferred nesting at high altitudes. Also, the city’s underground had been heavily reinforced as well, built to withstand tunneling grimmons that attacked from below.

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