Shattered Echoes

The water trembled all around them.

Daniel swam with every ounce of strength, ascending from the depths of the abyss while the crushing weight of that invisible presence still pressed upon his soul. His body burned with exertion, muscles straining to their limits after the desperate escape.

Mira was at his side, equally exhausted but with a hardened expression. Above them, light began to return slowly. It wasn't the brightness of the sun—they were still far from the surface—but rather the first hints of the ocean's natural bioluminescence.

The Abyssal Hunter had vanished—not because it had given up the chase, but because something greater had forced it to retreat.

And that made Daniel even more uneasy.

If a creature like that, an elite predator, could back off so quickly... what exactly lurked down below?

His mind echoed with the system's words:

[Abyssborne Path – Awakening: 2%]