Saint:My Daily Routine Became My Superpower

The night sky was clear.

Too clear.

Kael stood outside the crumbling bookstore, staring upward. The stars were out—but they weren't twinkling.

They were blinking.

Slowly. Patiently. Like eyelids behind a veil, watching the earth not with light, but with intention.

Something was up there.

And something was watching him.

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> [Notification: Weekly Task – 3/3 Elite Creatures Defeated]

Bonus Triggered: Unseen Observer Event Activated

> [New Task – Investigate the Eyes Above]

Find the source of the sky anomaly.

Optional: Engage the entity.

Warning: Unknown risk level

Kael narrowed his eyes.

"Optional" always meant don't. But curiosity was a quiet addiction. And survival had made him reckless.

He had to know.

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Inside the bookstore, Elle stirred as he quietly packed.

"You're heading out?" she asked, voice rough with sleep.

Kael nodded. "Need to check something. Might be nothing."

Elle snorted. "In this world, 'nothing' always tries to eat you."

He gave the faintest smirk.

And disappeared into the pre-dawn shadows.

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Kael followed the anomaly like a dog after scent.

The blinking in the sky grew more erratic as he entered a collapsed industrial sector. Charred metal and fractured glass littered the ground. The silence felt unnatural—pressurized.

The air sizzled with static.

And then he saw it.

A tower.

Twisted satellite dishes spiraled toward the sky like broken ribs. Its scaffolding sagged under its own weight, half-devoured by thorny vines and warped by heat. At the base, the earth was scorched in a perfect circle—black glass etched into cracked soil.

And standing at its center—

A figure.

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It was tall, unnaturally so. Nearly three meters, draped in a mantle of shimmering folds that moved like oil on water. There were no eyes, no mouth, no skin. Just a suggestion of limbs beneath the veil.

Its body shifted between shapes. For a moment, it had wings. Then horns. Then neither. It seemed to wear concepts—not clothes.

Not human. Not beast. Not machine.

> [Entity Identified: Sky Warden – Rank ???]

Kael instinctively drew his dagger.

The entity didn't move. But the sky pulsed—as if it had taken a breath.

Then—

> Initiating Observation...

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Pain.

Raw, electric, impossible pain.

Kael's mind exploded with memory and noise.

Screams in the dark. Ash under his fingernails. His brothers' laughter, then silence. The girl's hands, blistered and burning. The weight of a collapsing tunnel. The roar of something dying behind him.

The moments were sharpened—perfected—until they cut him from the inside.

He dropped to one knee, gasping.

Blood ran from his nose.

But he didn't collapse.

He clenched his jaw. Dug his fingers into the dirt.

And endured.

> [Observation Complete. Resilience Threshold Surpassed]

Bonus Reward: Unknown

The Sky Warden tilted its head—not with curiosity, but as if measuring him.

Then—without sound—it vanished. Dissolved into glimmering vapor.

Above, the stars blinked once.

Then stopped.

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Kael sat beneath the tower for what felt like hours.

Still. Silent.

He didn't move until the sun began to rise.

The world felt quieter. The forest, distant and hesitant. Not in fear. But in respect.

He wasn't sure he returned as the same person who had left.

Some part of him had stayed up there.

And maybe something had followed him back.