The Verge Of An Empire

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On the second floor of Incival's house, there seemed to be a large-scale battle and, at the same time, a fire. Burnt memories remain from the furniture, the ceiling and walls are sooty, traces of burning, cracks, and dents are visible everywhere. Three baked corpses in different parts of the floor, two of them human and one lups. Extensive scorched wounds and damage from iron shards embedded in flesh. In lups, the body is cut in half in the same ideal way. At the magical laboratory, I found a wide puddle of black viscous slurry of unknown origin with a pungent smell of reagents. Pieces of metal and fragments of a wooden object float in a puddle, in which it is difficult, but possible to recognize a fire wand. Fragments of cobra decorations survived, but the sphere was broken. The laboratory itself was almost not damaged, it was not affected by the fire, but some items of magical use are lying on the floor, and along one of the walls stretched a gleaming trail of the silver blood of te