The forest was silent, blanketed under the veil of midnight. Not even the wind dared to whistle through the ancient trees that stood like sentinels, shielding secrets buried deep beneath their roots. Somewhere beyond the reach of moonlight, a single stone outcrop jutted from the forest floor—innocuous, forgotten, overgrown with moss. But within that stone, concealed behind biometric scanners and encrypted codes, lay a door that no outsider had ever seen. A door that led to shadows.