After many such steps to the towering inner walls of the metropolis. The outer walls still loftier and even more massive ramparts of sullen gray-green metal formed a seamless jointless barrier against an utterly indescribable foe; a barrier whose outer faces radiated constantly a searing coruscating green emanation. Metal alone could not long have barred that voracious and implacably relentless enemy but against that lethal green emanation even that ravening Jovian jungle could not prevail but fell... read more