Over the next half-hour, Lin Mu and the others stood as the elder laid bare every secret he knew.
The Hidden Cave Sect, he explained, was only one of many minor remnants—small cogs in a greater wheel. Their task had been to maintain underground watchposts, secret tunnels, and cache locations for resources and captives.
The true power lay with the Drowned Crescent Cult.
"They are no longer here," the elder confessed. "Their real base lies east of the Blackbone Sea, within the Crooked Abyss. An ancient stronghold built upon drowned ruins—tides and storms hide its location, but it exists. It is there they plan their rituals, raise their initiates, and feed their dark ambitions."
Lin Mu's expression remained unreadable.
"And the Ephemera Sect?"
