It began in the places nobody visited anymore.
Not because they were locked.
But because players had forgotten that they existed.
Outside on the edges of Eclipse Online, beyond the mapped zones and the raid paths, there were zones that hadn't been cycled through with patches. No system messages, no meta events, no loot tables for a run. They'd simply. stayed there. Waiting.
And now, for the first time in years, footsteps began to return.
Kaito had no quest marker.
The Presence Tree never gave guidance—it never could—but offshoots from it had extended into strange corners of the world, sweeping out into lands he had not visited since the Reaver cycle began.
This one did that to him.
The Hollow Bridge.
It once belonged to a PvP zone—players would clash in infinite battles along the curved expanse, leaping down into the fog below or struggling forward through the mist to the enemy camp. The meta had moved on, the rewards had been cut, and the bridge was still.
