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00:00Die with a clean soul, or sell it to watch them burn.
00:11At first you scream, then you cry.
00:15And in the end, when you've been roasting in the sun for 300 days, you just watch.
00:21I watch the sand move on its own.
00:25I watch how that thing studies me.
00:27I have no fear.
00:30I have no strength left for that.
00:32I just want it to come up at once, and end this.
00:37I was the king.
00:39Now I am a wretch.
00:42I have seen everything pass.
00:44Merchants, thieves, people who before wouldn't even dare to look at me.
00:50Help? Forget it.
00:52They stop, unload their rage upon me, and move on to the city that I once ruled.
00:57They follow the orders of my bastard brother.
01:05If he wanted to kill me, he would have slit my throat already.
01:10That would have been a gift.
01:11But no.
01:13He left me here alive because he knows that memory hurts more than chains.
01:18If I close my eyes, I hear them.
01:23It wasn't me screaming.
01:25It was them.
01:26My wife, my children.
01:29He didn't give them a quick end.
01:31He did something worse.
01:33He covered the throne with the evidence of his massacre and forced me to sit on it.
01:38He wanted me to feel the weight of death clinging to my back before dragging me to this hell.
01:47And if I am still here, after 300 days, it is not by luck.
01:53It is because of his desire to humiliate me and watch me suffer.
01:57He won't let me die.
02:04Every noon, he sends a guard.
02:08A little dirty water and the food scraps that not even his animals want.
02:12Just enough to keep the heart beating, but not enough for me to stand up.
02:17Because he knows that if I die, his fun ends.
02:26But yesterday, the routine changed.
02:30The guard didn't come to bring me the dirty water.
02:33He came.
02:34He appeared with his personal escort.
02:37The worst butchers in the kingdom.
02:40My brother didn't get off his horse.
02:42He looked down at me, covering his nose with a silk handkerchief as if I were the plague.
02:47Still breathing?
02:51He asked.
02:53His voice held no mercy, only mockery.
03:00I tried to spit at him, but my mouth was so dry that only dust came out.
03:05He leaned over the saddle, getting just close enough so I could see the hate in his eyes.
03:12Father gave everything to you, remember?
03:15The throne?
03:16The glory?
03:17He treated me like a stray dog.
03:19He paused and pointed to the desert.
03:23Well, look where your glory is now.
03:25I have the kingdom.
03:27You have sand.
03:27He turned one last time with a smile that froze my blood at forty degrees.
03:40Ah, I almost forgot.
03:46Your eldest daughter, Sihara.
03:49My heart stopped.
03:51I thought he had killed her along with the others.
03:54We didn't kill her, he said softly.
03:57She is too...
03:58valuable to waste.
04:00She cooks and serves wine to my generals until she drops from exhaustion.
04:21That way, she will learn by force that in my world, she is only a servant.
04:28Maybe I'll bring her soon, so she can see her father one last time.
04:32That night, when the sun fell, something broke inside me forever.
04:52I looked at the sky, but I no longer sought the gods of light.
04:56They allowed this.
04:58They allowed my daughter to suffer.
05:00So I renounced them.
05:02I screamed at the ground.
05:08I screamed at the darkness.
05:10I offered my soul to anything that could give me the power to kill them all.
05:16And the earth answered.
05:19The wind stopped dead.
05:22My bare feet felt the change.
05:25The sand was no longer still.
05:28Something heavy was sliding over it.
05:32I stood paralyzed.
05:35Whatever was there with me wasn't human.
05:38It was studying me.
05:40It was taking its time.
05:42I felt the weight of an ancient gaze fixed on the back of my neck,
05:46calculating not just my flesh, but my worth.
06:02From the sand rose a black shadow.
06:22Its fangs sank into my ankle like burning nails.
06:26My body reacted before I did.
06:34I seized up completely.
06:37Then came that deep burning.
06:39Something fiery forcing its way through my veins.
06:42The venom takes three minutes to reach the heart.
06:57She said, calm, hypnotic, watching the sand fall.
07:02That is the time you have to decide your eternity.
07:05When the last grain falls, either you are mine or you are a corpse.
07:10I managed to spit out between spasms.
07:17Why now?
07:18Where were my gods when...
07:21Gods?
07:22Her laugh was dry.
07:25Such human tenderness.
07:27Don't be naive.
07:28There are no gods.
07:30There is only one creator.
07:31She came closer while I writhed.
07:37If there were multiple architects,
07:39this universe would have collapsed from their arguments.
07:43Look at it.
07:44She pointed to the infinite horizon.
07:47The stars, the cycle, death.
07:50Creation is perfect.
07:53It is a flawless clockwork mechanism.
07:55Then your creator is a sadist.
08:01I screamed and the blood tasted like copper.
08:04He enjoys watching evil rain and dominate his own work.
08:08You see cruelty because you look with mortal eyes.
08:13This reality is not what it seems.
08:16What you call pain, the creator calls balance.
08:20She leaned in until her breath grazed my ear.
08:24Your supposed gods were just a filter.
08:27They wanted you pure, a martyr,
08:30and chained to this pillar to balance the scales.
08:32Her face changed.
08:40Her vertical pupils dilated,
08:42devouring the little light that remained.
08:44But I...
08:45Her face darkened.
08:48I want you dirty and victorious.
08:54You were a just king, a clean soul.
08:58That is why I could not touch you.
09:00Your faith was a shield.
09:02But by renouncing today,
09:04by breaking,
09:06you have opened the door.
09:08Time runs short, fallen king.
09:11The sand is running out.
09:13Your brother no longer plays by human rules,
09:16she added,
09:17watching my chest stop rising.
09:19He has already made his pact.
09:21And it wasn't with a lady like me,
09:24but with that which has no name.
09:26She let a little more sand fall.
09:34Seconds remained.
09:35If you die here as a worthy man,
09:39Sehara will be the servant of his beasts eternally.
09:42My body no longer obeyed,
09:47and my eyes were closing.
09:49I am going to die, I thought,
09:52and he will laugh over my corpse
09:54while he degrades her.
09:56That thought burned me more than the venom,
09:59and I lunged forward and grabbed the lamia's wrist,
10:02stopping the fall of the sand dead.
10:04That if I give you my soul,
10:10do you guarantee that I can kill him?
10:13I looked her in the eyes.
10:15I want no tricks.
10:16I don't want to survive.
10:18I only want to save my daughter and crush my brother.
10:21Do you have the power?
10:23Or are you as useless as my gods?
10:27She smiled.
10:28She closed her fist,
10:30pulverizing the last grains of sand.
10:32My power won't just kill him.
10:35It will make him beg for death.
10:58At dawn,
10:59the guard came to fulfill his routine with my breakfast.
11:02The rotten water of every day.
11:06But upon reaching the pillar,
11:08it spilled in silence.
11:12He turned around and ran
11:13as if the devil himself were chasing him.
11:15In the square,
11:32my brother was busy.
11:34He sat in his box eating grapes,
11:37while below,
11:38the executioner cleansed the city of traitors.
11:41He was enjoying the show.
11:52Until the guard arrived,
11:54pale as a corpse,
11:56and knelt down trembling.
11:57He whispered with cold sweat on his brow.
12:02Your brother is gone.
12:04The pillar is empty.
12:09My brother's smile vanished.
12:11He asked no questions.
12:13Rage overtook judgment.
12:16He spun around and smashed the pommel of his sword
12:18into the messenger's face,
12:20shattering his teeth.
12:22Bring my horse,
12:23he roared.
12:31He arrived at the scene at a gallop.
12:34He looked at the shattered links on the ground.
12:36They weren't cut.
12:38They were exploded.
12:39He crouched down and with rage,
12:43grabbed a handful of sand.
12:45He brought it to his face and sniffed.
12:48It smelled of snake.
12:50He looked at the empty horizon.
12:53Fear crossed his eyes for the first time.
12:56He understood what was happening.
13:00Any man can pick a lock.
13:02But no man shatters steel with his bare hands.
13:06This is not an escape,
13:07he thought,
13:08while the desert kept silence.
13:10This is an invocation.
13:22The fall didn't end with a crash.
13:25It ended in absolute silence.
13:28I took a breath of air.
13:30I expected sulfur, heat, rot.
13:32But the air was freezing and sweet.
13:40I opened my eyes prepared to fight demons.
13:43And what I saw paralyzed me more than the venom.
13:50Light.
13:51Not the fire of hell.
13:53But a blue light, pure and blinding.
13:56I didn't see dirty rock.
13:58I saw polished white marble.
14:00Crystal waterfalls.
14:02Domes shining like buried stars.
14:05It looked like the paradise my priests had promised me,
14:08if I were good.
14:12But I was not good.
14:14I had just sold myself.
14:16I touched my chest.
14:23My heart was pounding.
14:25The pain of the venom had disappeared.
14:27I looked at the lamia.
14:44She was there, watching me.
14:46Beautiful and terrible under that celestial light.
14:49What is this?
14:53I asked, suspicious.
14:55Have you killed me?
14:56Is this a final hallucination?
14:59She laughed.
15:00The sound echoed off the perfect walls.
15:07No, fallen king.
15:09This is the truth, hidden beneath your desert of dust.
15:13She came closer and pointed me to the edge of the terrace.
15:16This is my home.
15:18We crossed the white citadel.
15:24It was not a place of peace.
15:26It was a nest.
15:28I saw hundreds of beautiful and intimidating lamias.
15:32They all stopped.
15:34I felt their eyes fixed on the back of my neck.
15:37They hissed.
15:38Some got so close that I could smell their hunger.
15:43Are they your subjects or my executioners?
15:46I asked.
15:47Without looking away from one with double fangs.
15:50They look at me as if I were the main course.
15:53To them, you are soft meat, she said without stopping, pushing one aside with a sharp gesture of her tail.
16:10Only my presence keeps them from tearing you apart right here and drinking your blood before it touches the ground.
16:17Then why you?
16:27I looked her in the eyes.
16:30You are a queen.
16:32Why did you go up to the surface?
16:35You could have sent any of these beasts.
16:37Why risk yourself for a wretch tied to a pillar?
16:44Because a servant looks for a master, but a queen looks for a king.
16:49Any of them would have eaten you or turned you into a slave.
16:55I needed an equal.
16:58Someone whose hate was so pure that he could withstand my venom without dying.
17:03I do not seek submission, fallen king.
17:07I seek an alliance.
17:09She approaches a niche in the rock wall.
17:12She takes out something wrapped in black silk and offers it to me.
17:17An alliance for an impossible war, I murmured.
17:20I feel cold, not the chill of the night.
17:24I feel empty inside.
17:28I have emptied you of humanity to fill you with power.
17:33And you are going to need it.
17:36Your brother made a pact with the Nameless One.
17:41What is it, a demon?
17:44No, it is something older.
17:47Something that devours light.
17:49She unwraps the object.
17:52It is a black crystal dagger, obsidian of the void, that absorbs the light around it.
17:58Human steel will shatter against its skin.
18:02But this won't.
18:04Obsidian of the void?
18:07Forged with the pain of this earth.
18:10Take it.
18:11Do not use it against the soldiers.
18:13Save it for the traitor's heart.
18:19I took the dagger.
18:21Touching it, my hand looked steadier, lethal.
18:25I turned around.
18:26Before me, the ground ended.
18:29The black abyss began.
18:33Now you are armed.
18:35And now you know the truth.
18:37It is time to awaken your army.
18:39The bastard didn't return to the palace.
18:51He went to crawl before his true master.
18:54He rode to the Forbidden Lands.
18:57A hell of black rock.
18:59Where the sun dares not rise.
19:02There, only he has permission.
19:05His escort does not.
19:06He entered the cave without looking back.
19:32While the shadows tore his own men apart, two meters from his boots.
19:43Inside, there was no air.
19:47There was a thick fog that smelled like an open grave.
19:51He knelt on the black ice.
19:52You sold me an untouchable rain, he said.
20:02And for the first time, his voice trembled.
20:05But the pillar is empty.
20:07What has taken him?
20:08The fog slammed shut.
20:27Before him rose a colossal silhouette.
20:30It had no face.
20:31Only curved horns tearing the darkness.
20:35And a breath that froze the blood.
20:41And then, it spoke with a voice that sounded like bones breaking.
20:46They haven't taken him.
20:49He has gone down.
20:51The cave vibrated.
20:53Your brother has awakened the mother below.
20:57That damned one does not come to the surface to negotiate.
21:01She has offered him the nest.
21:04The stone legions that sleep beneath the crust.
21:07Thousands of warriors who do not bleed, do not eat, and do not stop.
21:12If they march against you, your kingdom will be dust before dawn.
21:23My brother crawled across the frozen ground, desperate.
21:27My men cannot kill stone, he screamed, losing all composure.
21:32Help me.
21:33I have given you everything.
21:35Give me something to stop them.
21:42The shadow expanded, filling the cave with an unbearable cold.
21:47Then I will open my own cages.
21:50I will give you the devourers of the void.
21:53Blind beasts that feed on fear.
21:56They will make his stone army look like child's play.
22:02The fog closed around my brother, hiding him almost completely.
22:05But brute force does not ensure victory.
22:11Come closer.
22:12I have one last order for you.
22:14Something that will ensure that, even if he wins the battle, he loses the war.
22:20I plunged into the blue void.
22:36But as I crossed the fog, the cold vanished instantly.
22:42I landed in a dead and dry world.
22:46The air weighed tons.
22:48It smelled of dust from sealed tombs.
22:52As I stood up, I saw them.
22:54I was not alone.
23:00I was surrounded by granite corpses.
23:03Endless rows of giants that had been waiting centuries for an order to kill.
23:08I walked to the end.
23:37There was the general, three meters of stone sitting on a throne of rough rock.
23:43He held a sword between his hands and an empty gaze beneath the dust.
23:51I stopped before him.
23:53I remembered the warning.
23:55They do not listen to words.
23:57If your hate is not enough, they will kill you.
24:01I did not hesitate.
24:02I raised my hand, covered in dried blood, and slammed it against his rough chest.
24:15The pain hit me like a sledgehammer.
24:20I felt the weight of a thousand forgotten wars trying to crush my mind.
24:25They wanted to extinguish me.
24:28But I didn't give them fear.
24:30I gave them memory.
24:32I gave them my brother laughing on the balcony.
24:35I gave them Sihara, serving wine to the pigs.
24:39I gave them the throne of human skin.
24:46The stone warmed beneath my hand.
24:49The general did not reject me.
24:51He fed on my fury.
24:53A brutal crack broke the silence.
24:59The giant rose, immense, and drove his knee into the ground before me, and bowed his head, offering me his loyalty.
25:08I felt a brutal weight, climbing up my arm.
25:15It didn't hurt.
25:17It weighed.
25:19The stone began to creep over my skin, covering my scars, wrapping around my chest, forging a stone armor over my living flesh.
25:28Now, I wore the skin of the abyss.
25:32I looked at my army.
25:36They awaited my voice.
25:39Rise!
25:40We have a kingdom to burn.
25:41And thousands of yellow eyes lit up in the darkness.
25:45I emerged from the darkness.
25:59The Lamia was waiting for me at the edge of the abyss.
26:02She said nothing when she saw my new skin.
26:06She only smiled.
26:07A broken man went down.
26:13A titan has risen.
26:15I am not a titan.
26:17I am an executioner.
26:21I turned to leave, but she stopped me with a cold hand on my granite chest.
26:26Her smile vanished.
26:31Do not get confident.
26:33Your brother is a cornered rat.
26:36He will use tricks.
26:37He will use what you love.
26:39If he touches Seahara, I will bring the city down on top of him.
26:46That is your danger, king.
26:49Remember your armor.
26:51If you let your heart soften, the stone will break.
26:54The earth shook before the walls of my city.
27:21My brother waited on high.
27:24He was no longer eating grapes.
27:26He clenched his teeth so hard that his gums bled.
27:30He knew what was coming.
27:31The horizon didn't break.
27:33The horizon didn't break.
27:37It was erased.
27:39A wall of sand a thousand meters high advanced towards the city, swallowing the sun and turning day into night.
27:46We were not marching alone.
27:48The storm was our flag.
27:55Through the mist, the silhouettes began to emerge.
27:59Thousands?
27:59Infinite.
28:01Filling the entire desert.
28:04Shadows of soldiers and colossi scraping the sky hidden in the dust.
28:08And breaking through the curtain of sand, I appeared.
28:16I was no longer a wretch.
28:19I was the spearhead of the end of the world.
28:21Before the wall, his swarm awaited us.
28:31They were the beasts of the Nameless One.
28:34A plague of bone and acid.
28:37Creatures with pale armor and tentacles whipping the air like lashes.
28:41They drooled a venom capable of melting steel, screeching with infinite hunger.
29:05There was no battle.
29:07It was an execution.
29:08Flesh cannot fight against stone.
29:13My warriors advanced without stopping crushing skulls and bones beneath their granite boots.
29:28My brother's army became a carpet of broken corpses in seconds.
29:33He watched from above, paralyzed by terror.
29:38When the last monster fell, my ten-meter colossi advanced.
29:53Their stone fists struck the wall.
29:56The entire city vibrated.
29:58Open the gates, traitor.
30:12Hand over my daughter safe and sound, and I will be lenient with you.
30:16Leniency?
30:20Sounds tempting, brother.
30:22The gates opened.
30:24My brother stood in the center of the courtyard, unarmed.
30:27He had thrown away his sword.
30:29By his side, and trembling, was she.
30:33Sihara.
30:34The embrace was desperate.
30:49I looked at my brother with contempt.
30:52He thought he had won.
30:54You kept your part.
30:55Now, I will keep mine.
30:58Bind him.
30:59Take him to the deepest dungeons.
31:00But my brother calmly drew a small dagger.
31:08Stop.
31:09I think you haven't understood the nature of our bond.
31:13You cannot imprison me.
31:15You cannot touch me.
31:16With a smooth movement, the bastard cut his wrist in the shape of a cross.
31:25Sihara screamed in my arms and brought her hand to her own wrist.
31:29I pulled her away and saw with horror that the exact same cross-shaped cut was bleeding on her skin.
31:38What have you done?
31:39The nameless one has stitched our lives.
31:45If I get cold in a cell, she will shiver.
31:48If the chains graze me, her skin will fall off.
31:53If you let me rot in the darkness, she will wither with you.
31:57He approached me untouchable.
32:05So no, brother.
32:06There will be no cells.
32:08And he let out a laugh that echoed off the walls.
32:14Good dog.
32:16Now, make way.
32:17I'm leaving, and she comes with me.
32:20He grabbed Sihara by the arm.
32:22Order your monsters to stand back.
32:28If I see a single stone move, she will pay with blood.
32:32If you try to follow me, the damage will be permanent.
32:36And if you try anything heroic, my end will also be hers.
32:42I struck the ground with my fist, humiliated.
32:46I shouted the order.
32:47The colossi and the stone warriors parted, creating a corridor of silence in the middle of the army.
32:58I had to watch how he took her away.
33:01I had to watch him cross the ranks of my warriors, protected by my own blood.
33:07Sihara looked at me one last time, before disappearing into the desert storm.
33:12Her eyes begged me to do nothing.
33:15To let her go.
33:16The gate closed behind them, and I was left alone in the city I had just conquered.
33:29An empty city.
33:31A useless throne.
33:32Only the scum of my traitor brother's guards remained, and for me, I had no mercy left.
33:46The gate closed behind them, and for me, I had no mercy left.
33:47The gate closed behind them, and for me, I had no mercy left.
34:16I warned you. I said he would use what you love. And he has brought you to your knees without drawing a sword.
34:34Shut up. I turned towards her with the dagger in my hand. Tell me how to break it. Tell me how to cut the bond without killing her.
34:46The Lamia approached and looked north, towards where they fled. We cannot do it here. That magic is ancient. As long as your brother has his protection, she is his shield.
35:02She turned towards me. Her eyes shone with a new hunt. If you want to save her, we have to go where the pact was forged.
35:11We have to go to the forbidden lands. We are not going to conquer a kingdom, fallen king. We are going to kill an immortal.
35:22Let him be immortal. Let him be a god. I don't care. He has my daughter. She is the only love I have left in this dark and unfair world.
35:32And there is no hell deep enough to hide her from her father.
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