Red slipped past the East Wall perimeter at dawn, using a hacked utility badge and a timed blackout to sneak through a maintenance shaft. He had memorized every patrol cycle, every glitch in the security cameras.
Ilustra looked like a city swallowed by its own ghosts.
Collapsed buildings blanketed in moss. Roads split by ancient artillery blasts. A strange silence clung to everything—as if the wind itself feared to speak.
His system map pinged.
Objective Marker: 34 meters northeast.
Red climbed over debris, down into a hidden crypt carved into the earth below an old cathedral ruin.
[You have entered: The Forgotten Shrine of Ilustra]Danger Rating: D+
Ancient glyphs pulsed faintly along the stone walls. In the center was a broken pedestal with a golden orb hovering above it.
[Legacy Quest Complete: Trace the Sunblood]Reward Unlocked: Class Awakening Initiated
The orb shattered.
Light exploded outward—and Red felt everything shift.