Meanwhile back on the southern continent, the Vampires were about to unleash their planned out plauge upon the empire. Under the nightsky, tall shadows crept from beyond the border of the Misty land as they made their way to the nearest town under the empire.
The guards never saw them.
Under the starless sky, the silhouettes moved like liquid darkness across the ridgeline tall, lean, and unnervingly silent. Their cloaks fluttered behind them without sound, drinking in what little moonlight filtered through the clouds.These were predators who had memorized every blind spot in this town's patrol routes, who knew the rhythms of human night vigilance better than humans themselves.
As the bell in the eastern watchtower tolled midnight, the first group of five slipped over the wall.
Their feet did not disturb the frost-glazed earth. Their shadows stretched unnaturally long, melding with the cracks in the cobblestone streets as if the town itself wished to swallow them whole.
