Blood of Dawnwalker: Under Watchful Eyes, Free and Escort Mert

Blood of Dawnwalker is now available, and one of the trickiest early quests in the game is titled Under Watchful Eyes.

In this quest, you’ll be tasked with freeing and escorting Mert the Miller, the captured rebel, out of the Military Camp.

This is an early-game quest and will be tougher than you might expect. You’ll have your equipment confiscated as you enter the camp if you don’t use a rear entrance, but you’ll need the Prison Keychain before that, and freeing Mert will alert every guard in the area.

This is a challenging quest for a reason, and you might need to use an Autosave to escape the area if you’ve already made mistakes. For everything you need to make this quest as simple as possible, follow our instructions below.

How to free Mert – BoD

Freeing Mert is the easiest part of this task. The building Mert is being held in is being watched by the guard captain, a miniboss named Rayko the Incorruptible, and another guard outside of Mert’s prison cell. You can also enter the Military Camp via a rear entrance near the back of the tower, which will allow you to keep your weapons when entering, but you’ll need to enter the normal way, quietly steal the Prison Keychain, and open the door first.

When the guard captain upstairs isn’t looking, it’s very simple to take the Prison Keychain from the table at the rear of the room. The ‘Steal’ option will turn red when you are being watched. You can also loot the Prison Keychain from the guard downstairs once defeated.

That’s all you need to free Mert. If you do this at night, you can use Voracious Bite from Focus Mode to take out the guard downstairs quietly. If not, you should steal the sword that’s on the bench downstairs — though vampire claws can be stronger than sword options early on in the game. You can change your equipped weapon in the Inventory menu even while in combat, and you can change between unarmed and armed stances by pressing Square/X on the controller.

If you can’t take out the guard quietly, he’ll attack as soon as you free Mert. If you’re finding this section difficult, you should make a Quicksave whenever you exit combat, and ensure you’ve crafted proper healing items and aren’t just using food.

How to escort Mert – BoD

Now that Mert is free, you need to get him out of the Military Camp. Getting him out of the camp is actually pretty easy, but getting him out of the jail building is far more difficult.

You’ll need to take out the guard captain along with Rayko upstairs. In addition, you are very likely to have a gang of three guards and a dog barge into the room shortly after. There’s no sneaky way to get around the guards that ambush the tower; you just have to fight your way through them. Make sure to make a Quicksave once the battle is over.

Once you exit the tower, do not head forward into the main camp. Instead, turn left and move around the exterior of the prison tower until you find a door leading outside of the camp. This secret rear exit can also be used to infiltrate the camp without losing your weapons, but again, you’ll need to have already stolen the Prison Keychain and opened the way after entering the normal way, meaning this will take at least two trips.

Freeing both Mert and his wife at the mill will allow you to meet them later in Svartrau.