Morning reached Helior Prime early for Xavier. Light climbed the edges of the towers and spilled across the balcony floor where Xavier stood barefoot, arms resting on the rail, eyes on the city instead of the room behind him.
Traffic was already moving again in controlled streams, patrol drones tracing familiar paths like nothing had been torn open the night before. Helior Prime absorbed violence the way oceans absorbed storms, not by resisting, but by outlasting it.
The quest interface hovered at the edge of his vision.
[Quest Complete]
He focused on it without urgency, eyes scanning the rewards in order.
The first reward appeared.
1) Your name will be known across all of Jupiter.
He frowned.
