From the skies, several towering golems, over three meters tall and clad in thick black armor, plummeted toward the battlefield. Designed specifically for melee combat, they landed squarely upon the still-burning body of the abyssal beast, which had just been ravaged by a missile bombardment. Without pause, they drove their drill-like weapons into its hardened exoskeleton.0

Alchemical fuel ignited with a roar. Internal combustion forced massive steel spikes deep into its body. Chains attached to the spikes nailed it down to the ground; no matter how it writhed, it could no longer rise.0

In the air, flying alchemical automata ceased the missile bombardment and instead deployed spraying nozzles from their arms. They doused the immobilized beast in a pungent liquid, thick, viscous, and seeping into its open wounds.0

The flames still licking at its body were not enough to ignite this particular substance. But when the heavy golems leapt clear from the creature's back, the airborne units...0