I held his gaze for a moment before speaking again, my curiosity shifting from how he escaped to how he had built himself up after that.
"And what path did you take?" I asked, resting my arms loosely on my knees. "You didn't brute force your way through all this. That much is obvious."
He gave a small nod, his expression turning a bit more focused.
"Shade Path," he said. "It fit better than anything else they offered. Everything about it is built around not being where the enemy expects you to be, striking before they even realize you exist, and getting out before anything can react. As you know it matches perfectly with me"
I nodded slowly, already seeing how that aligned with what he had described earlier.
"And your class?" I asked.
"It evolved into something… different," he said. "Not a standard progression like Assassin. The system gave me a unique class tied directly to my talent."
He shifted slightly, leaning forward just a bit.
"Void Phantasm," he said.
