Raiden’s consciousness gradually surfaced, pulling him from the depths of a dreamless slumber. His eyelids fluttered open, revealing the familiar opulence of the chamber he had briefly glimpsed when he first ascended the mage’s tower. The realization that he was back in the same room again dawned on him slowly, a faint sense of déjà […]
1. Echoes of the Dark Past
Mirefield village lay ensnared in an unyielding grasp of melancholy, its streets, once bustling with life, now eerily silent and abandoned. The remains of fractured buildings, remnants of a more prosperous era, stood as solemn sentinels of the village’s gradual decline. Their weathered walls and broken windows mirrored the lost dreams and forsaken promises of […]