Chapter 170: Assault on Damask Manor
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The sun had set and an eerie quiet now enveloped the edge of the woods, the pale silver light of the full moon glistening through the droplets of dew hanging in the air like tiny sprites.
It was quiet. Way too quiet.
The kind of quiet that would make one prone to dozing off when idly vacant.
Or at least it would, if it wasn’t for the manor.
The dark, haunting house looming over the hill not too far away from the edge of the forest.
Its foreboding presence felt as if a watchful eye observed everything around it with malicious intent, sending a sense of unease down the spine of those dwelling around its grounds.
The young man couldn’t wait to leave that place.
He had been given the duty of patrolling the outer fence of the property all day because he was the youngest of his unit. What the novice town guard still did not understand was what business they had protecting such a creepy place all the way out there, far away from the city.