Chapter 6 – Shrine of Whispers
They said the shrine was cursed .But all I felt was warmth... and the eyes of a forgotten goddess watching me undress.
The Queen told me I needed rest. Which, apparently, meant being escorted by two silent guards to the edge of the royal hunting forest and abandoned near a moss-covered archway with cracked stone and ancient glyphs.
[New Quest: Investigate the Sealed Shrine](
Objective: Uncover the source of divine energy beneath Velmiran grounds.)
The guards wouldn't follow. They bowed. They left.
And I stepped through the arch.
The air shifted immediately.
Warm. Heavy. Floral.The trees thinned out into a garden overgrown with ivy and strange white blossoms that pulsed faintly like heartbeat petals.
In the center: a half-buried shrine.I ts spire had fallen sideways. Vines tangled through it like nature was trying to seduce stone.
But it wasn't dead.
A single lantern flickered inside the entrance. No flame. Just... light.