Flowers that Bloom in the Dark.

Something amiss...

A subtle fragrance.

A missing shadow.

A vanishing streak of light.

Wicked eyes peering in the darkness.

A misplaced frame on the wall.

The essence of confusion, the antithesis of normalcy.

A strange, dark place...

***

Although danger was not foreign to him, it was a feeling he rarely felt.

Richard suddenly paused in his tracks.

'There's something watching me from the darkness.'

He glanced around and immediately activated {Tinted Eye} to its maximum limit of one minute.

Almost instantly, he felt his mana begin to drain rapidly, forcing him to stop.

He staggered a step back, his face pale.

'Plato...'

The Mind Demon took seat in his soul and his mana began to quickly replenish.

'That's odd. There was no change in what I saw, but my mana still drained quickly.'

He frowned. Something was definitely wrong here.