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The Royal Palace of Ashkar had never been brighter.
Crystal chandeliers hung from vaulted ceilings.
Golden candles illuminated endless banquet tables.
Music echoed through the grand hall.
Nobles laughed.
Princes boasted.
Servants hurried between rows of guests carrying silver trays loaded with food and wine.
It was supposed to be a night of celebration.
A night of victory.
A night the kingdom would remember.
And it certainly became unforgettable.
Just not for the reasons anyone expected.
Because among hundreds of richly dressed nobles stood one person who clearly did not belong.
A teenage boy.
Barefoot.
Wearing torn ragged clothes.
A dark cloak concealed most of his face.
He stood silently near the back of the hall.
Alone.
Ignored.
Forgotten.
Or so everyone believed.
Prince Cedric noticed him immediately.
The prince enjoyed finding weaknesses.
He enjoyed making examples of people.
And tonight, surrounded by admirers and flattered by wine, he felt especially confident.
His eyes locked onto the cloaked boy.
“Who invited him?”
Nearby nobles laughed.
No one knew.
No one cared.
The boy remained silent.
Cedric smirked.
An easy target.
Perfect entertainment.
The prince strode across the banquet hall.
Musicians gradually stopped playing.
People sensed trouble.
Cedric stopped directly in front of the boy.
“Look at me.”
The boy slowly raised his head.
His expression remained calm.
That annoyed the prince immediately.
Most people became nervous around royalty.
This boy didn’t.
“What’s under the cloak?”
No answer.
The prince grinned.
“Afraid?”
Still nothing.
The surrounding nobles laughed.
Cedric reached forward.
“If you’re hiding among nobles, at least let us see your face.”
Then he grabbed the cloak.
And ripped it away.
The laughter died instantly.
Not because of the boy’s face.
He looked ordinary.
Young.
Tired.
Thin from hardship.
But near his neck—
just beneath his jaw—
was a strange symbol.
An eye.
Black as midnight.
Perfectly shaped.
As though someone had carved darkness itself into his skin.
At first, nobody understood why it mattered.
Then the symbol blinked.
A pulse of silver light emerged from its center.
The nearest royal mage froze.
His face drained of color.
The wine glass slipped from his hand.
It shattered against the floor.
The sound echoed unnaturally loudly.
Several nobles turned toward him.
The old mage whispered a single word.
“No…”
The prince frowned.
“What?”
The mage stared at the mark.
Pure terror filled his eyes.
“No…”
The silver glow intensified.
And suddenly—
every candle in the hall went out.
Darkness consumed everything.
Instantly.
Not gradually.
Not naturally.
One moment the hall blazed with light.
The next—
nothing.
Gasps erupted everywhere.
Women screamed.
Servants dropped trays.
Tables overturned.
The crystal chandeliers hanging overhead became black silhouettes.
The fireplaces died.
The torches vanished.
Even magical lanterns stopped glowing.
It was as though light itself had fled.
Panic spread through the palace.
The prince stumbled backward.
“What’s happening?”
Nobody answered.
Because only one thing remained visible.
The glowing eye-shaped mark.
Floating in the darkness.
Watching.
Then the walls began moving.
Or at least—
it seemed that way.
Massive shadows crawled across the stone.
Not random shapes.
Not ordinary darkness.
An enormous eye slowly formed across the palace walls.
Larger than any building.
Larger than the throne room itself.
Its silver pupil opened.
And looked down upon everyone.
Several nobles collapsed.
Others fell to their knees.
Because they recognized the symbol.
Even if they desperately wished they didn’t.
Thousands of years ago—
before Ashkar existed—
there had been another kingdom.
A forgotten empire erased from history.
The Kingdom of Noctis.
The empire of shadows.
The empire that disappeared in a single night.
Ancient records described strange guardians.
Beings who controlled darkness itself.
Protectors known only as The Watchers.
According to legend, they bore a sacred mark.
A black eye.
Exactly like the one now glowing on the boy’s neck.
Most historians dismissed the stories as myths.
Until tonight.
The royal mage finally found his voice.
His hands trembled violently.
“The Mark of the Watcher…”
The hall fell silent.
The prince stared.
“What does that mean?”
The old mage looked horrified.
“It means…”
His voice cracked.
“It means he isn’t hiding from us.”
Everyone listened.
The mage pointed toward the boy.
“He was hiding us from it.”
Cold fear spread throughout the room.
Nobody understood.
Until the boy finally spoke.
His voice was calm.
Almost apologetic.
“I told them not to remove the cloak.”
The prince’s confidence vanished.
“What are you talking about?”
The boy lowered his eyes.
“The mark attracts them.”
A terrible silence followed.
“Them?”
The boy slowly looked upward.
Toward the colossal eye covering the walls.
And whispered:
“The Watchers.”
Then something answered.
A voice.
Not from the boy.
Not from any person.
From everywhere.
From the walls.
From the darkness.
From the shadows themselves.
“HEIR.”
The word shook the palace.
Glasses shattered.
Stone cracked.
Several nobles screamed.
The giant eye blinked.
“WE HAVE FOUND YOU.”
The boy closed his eyes.
As though he had feared this moment his entire life.
The prince stared.
“Who are you?”
The boy hesitated.
Then finally answered.
“My name is Elias.”
The mark brightened.
“I am the last descendant of Noctis.”
Gasps filled the hall.
For fifteen years Elias had hidden.
Village to village.
Town to town.
Never staying long.
Never removing the cloak.
Because every generation of his family carried the mark.
And every generation knew the same truth.
If the mark remained hidden—
the Watchers slept.
If it was revealed—
they awakened.
The cloak wasn’t protecting him.
It was protecting everyone around him.
The prince felt sick.
His attempt to humiliate a stranger had unleashed something ancient.
Something far beyond his understanding.
The giant eye expanded.
The palace shook.
Pieces of stone fell from the ceiling.
Outside, the entire capital vanished beneath unnatural darkness.
Citizens poured into the streets.
Terrified.
Looking toward the palace.
Where a silver eye now glowed brighter than the moon.
The Watchers were coming.
Then something unexpected happened.
Elias stepped forward.
Toward the eye.
Toward the darkness.
Toward the ancient power.
Not away from it.
The prince blinked.
“What are you doing?”
Elias smiled sadly.
“The same thing my family has done for thousands of years.”
The mark pulsed again.
Silver light spread across his skin.
Ancient runes emerged from beneath the surface.
Not dark.
Not evil.
Beautiful.
Radiant.
The royal mage suddenly understood.
And tears filled his eyes.
“We were wrong.”
The queen rose from her seat.
“What?”
The mage pointed toward Elias.
“The Watchers weren’t monsters.”
Everyone stared.
The old mage continued.
“They were guardians.”
The truth emerged.
Long ago, the Kingdom of Noctis had not fallen.
It had sacrificed itself.
An ancient catastrophe had once threatened the world.
Creatures from beyond reality.
Things that consumed kingdoms.
The Watchers had sealed them away.
At enormous cost.
Their descendants became living keys.
Living seals.
Living guardians.
Elias wasn’t cursed.
He was protecting everyone.
Every day.
Every moment.
Every breath.
The giant eye slowly descended.
Closer.
Closer.
The palace trembled.
Then the voice spoke again.
“HEIR.”
Elias looked up.
“THE SEAL WEAKENS.”
The boy’s face tightened.
The royal mage turned pale.
“What seal?”
The answer came immediately.
“THE PRISON.”
A chill swept through every soul in the room.
Then the greatest twist arrived.
The mark wasn’t awakening because the cloak had been removed.
It was awakening because Elias had finally reached adulthood.
The seal had always been destined to weaken tonight.
The prince hadn’t caused it.
He had only revealed it sooner.
Elias smiled with relief.
For years he had blamed himself.
For years he had feared the moment.
Now he understood.
It was time.
Not punishment.
Destiny.
The colossal eye lowered one final time.
Silver light flooded the palace.
Not destructive.
Protective.
Comforting.
Ancient power surged through the city.
Across the kingdom.
Across the world.
The weakening seal strengthened once more.
The darkness receded.
The candles reignited.
The chandeliers blazed back to life.
Warmth returned.
The giant eye faded.
The shadows disappeared.
Silence remained.
The banquet hall stood frozen.
Nobody moved.
Nobody spoke.
Finally, Prince Cedric stepped forward.
For the first time in his life—
truly humbled.
He looked at Elias.
Then bowed.
A prince.
Bowing to a ragged boy.
“I’m sorry.”
The hall fell silent again.
Elias looked surprised.
Then smiled.
“It’s okay.”
The prince laughed nervously.
“No, it really isn’t.”
Even Elias couldn’t help smiling.
Years later, historians would remember that night as The Banquet of Shadows.
The night a prince learned humility.
The night an ancient guardian returned.
And the night the kingdom discovered that the boy everyone feared was actually the reason they had been safe all along.
As for Elias, he never became a king.
Never sought power.
Never ruled armies.
Instead, he became the Keeper of the Seal.
The last Watcher.
The protector standing quietly between the world and dangers nobody else would ever know existed.
And every year, on the anniversary of that banquet, Prince Cedric would tell the same story to young nobles:
“Never judge someone by what they’re hiding.”
Then he would smile.
“Sometimes the cloak isn’t hiding their weakness.”
“It’s hiding the thing that’s protecting you.”
