The ashes of the dead still clung to the night air.
Kael walked alone through the alleys, his cloak dragging across wet stone, his crimson eyes glowing faintly in the dark. The city had quieted since the s*******r, but whispers never truly stopped. He could feel them—the hushed breaths of beggars, the mutter of drunkards, the frantic silence of guards too afraid to speak his name.
Fear was spreading. But so was something else. Hunger. Curiosity. Hope twisted into terror.
And in that silence, Kael felt it. A pulse. A faint echo left behind by the Watcher’s corpse he had broken. The System had shown him the Oath. Now the Oath pulled at him, a thread of silver woven through the night.
[Ding! New Quest Unlocked: Trace the Moonlit Seal.]
[Objective: Locate the hidden sanctum of the Watcher
