Teachers at school would describe the Age of Apocalypse by comparing it with the red-zone.
The once fertile earth became dried and blackened, the freshwater was marred with toxin, and the sun was barely visible through the murky cloud. So Zein didn't really surprise when he saw the condition of the land in front of him.
If there was something different, it was the remnant of a once flourishing city in ruin. If the red-zone felt like a slum, this ancient city felt as if a huge outbreak occurred in a big city like Althrea and devastated everything. That being said, the area around him was free of the depressing destruction.
From his point of view, Zein could see people in tattered and shabby clothes, with dirty appearances that were even worse than the red-zone dwellers looking toward him from far away—or rather, looking toward the shard. Most of them carried weapons, even civilians. From the fierce-looking halberd to the crude shield made of a car's door and kitchen knives.
