Abyss Fifth Layer, the crimson palace of the Blood Tear Duke, Asmond.
When Uphemia stepped into this domain, the air immediately filled with a nauseatingly sweet scent of blood.
It was the pure essence of despair fermented and concentrated over millennia.
The sky was like a giant blood-red amber, sealing the entire domain in an eternal twilight.
On the ground, spire-like structures rose jaggedly like the teeth of a demon.
The walls of these buildings were made from living bones, with networks of pulsating veins crawling across the surfaces.
Each time new pain emerged in the domain, these veins greedily absorbed it, channeling the essence to the massive blood pool at the palace's center.
Most horrifying of all was the ubiquitous "Garden of Sorrow."
The Blood Tear flowers emitted a sound like a baby's wail when they sensed pain, their petals solidified from real tears;
The leaves of Despair Grass naturally bore words from the final words of suicides;
