Towers rise from crystalline frost Spires crown the stronghold Archaic power within Castle gates guarded by wyvern forms Stone creatures, a specter calling Ancient walls, mystic and cold This task, the way now shrouded An evil presence Through abandoned courtyards Looming death In the highest tower, an emerald glare Atop a column of marble The Serpent's Stone "This world is not as you see Thine mortal paradigm deceased Fall into the tunnel of eternity" Black magick reckoning On contact the power revealed Verdant bolts pierce sanity and steel Antecedent, imminent Aeons pass, one thousand stars burn and collapse So the cosmos unfold Their secrets and knowledge untold As space-time unlocks in my soul I channel the Stone One with the earth and the stars My mind soars and travels afar And so now I see it all clear I have been betrayed Awakened, Self-disintegration Inward, into nothingness Dimensions unveiled Outward, infinite passage through time An answer most foul The vile conjuror, a foe Betrayal - the truth The voice within the Serpent's Stone Poisonous, Treachory, Traitorous, Deceived Treaties now made with a long lost dynasty Generations past, a forgotten scourge The choice is nigh, a sulfurous pact with The Night The great bane of Man An Ancient Power The Serpent Emperors of old Dark legends of antiquity The Dragon Kings shall rise once more