RAGNA POV...
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[Hidden Quest Completed]
Within the suffocating dark of that night, I felt it—three pairs of dark red eyes lingering on the dungeon cell as it shrank farther and farther from my vision.
The distance stretching not just through space but through something irreversible inside me, and the moment I turned away and left, five other pairs of eyes briefly fixed themselves on Gustav's lifeless body before sweeping the surroundings with cold indifference, eventually understanding that their master had already departed because the prize had been claimed, the debt settled, the path sealed.
An hour later, I was already back home, slipping into my room like a shadow that had never left, quietly crawling into my bed as though the world had not shifted on its axis, and above me the moon—once dim and withdrawn—slowly reclaimed its glow, pale light seeping back into the sky as if nothing had happened at all.
