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00:00The armor of the war god she brought back from the Dawn Temple is practically indestructible.
00:05It will be a perfect fit for Lyra.
00:08Once we extract Seraphina's divine power,
00:11it won't take long for Lyra to regain her original form.
00:14I've waited 300 years for this day.
00:17Isn't this too ruthless?
00:19No matter what, she has nurtured Lyra for you.
00:22She was struck by the Blade of Curses.
00:24No medicine in existence could heal that.
00:26I used half my divine power to save her and gave her 300 years of happiness.
00:30Over the years, every rare herb we could find in the three realms went straight into her body.
00:34She's enjoyed all of this.
00:36It's only fair she repays it to Lyra now.
00:37Standing outside the heavy doors,
00:39I felt as if the heavenly lightning had struck me all over again.
00:43I stumbled back to my room, my entire body trembling uncontrollably.
00:47My blood ran cold.
00:48The suffocating terror mirrored exactly how I felt on the day I married Seravius.
00:53During that wedding, Seravius had suddenly turned on me.
00:57He stole my septal, critically wounded me, and butchered my people.
01:02As I lay dying, the Lord of the Underhill defied the heavens to save me.
01:07He risked his life to protect me and made me his wife.
01:11After we married, his devotion had utterly flawless.
01:14I had been pregnant for 99 years.
01:16In just one more year, the child would be born.
01:19He had promised me that once the baby arrived, he would accompany me back to the heavenly realm to take
01:23back everything Seravius had stolen.
01:25I believed him.
01:25I loved him with every fiber of my being.
01:28Never in my wildest nightmares did I imagine he merely saw me as a vessel.
01:31An incubator meant to resurrect the woman he truly loved.
01:34Seeing my violent trembles, my handmade iris rushed over with a blanket, thinking my chronic illness was acting up.
01:39My lady gets cold so easily.
01:42The Lord commanded that you must drink your herbal tonic after lunch.
01:45He even had the starlight blooms brought down from the heavenly realm to replenish your divine power.
01:51Iris was a healer handmaid Aetherian had specifically brought from the heavenly realm to serve me.
01:55She knew how impossibly rare starlight blooms were.
01:57They grew only on the highest cliffs of the heavenly domains, blooming once every few centuries, and withered the moment
02:03sunlight touched them.
02:04For our 300 years of marriage, Aetherian had treated me like glass.
02:09Knowing I missed my home, he frequently sent his men to procure heavenly artifacts just to make me smile.
02:13The underworld was perpetually freezing, so he built me a climate-controlled palace modeled exactly after my home in the
02:19heavens.
02:19Afraid I would be lonely, he moved his study here, working by my side every day.
02:23Saving me had left him with lingering injuries.
02:26Whenever he overworked himself, he suffered agonizing pain, but he would always smile through it, telling me that as long
02:31as I was safe, every sacrifice was worth it.
02:33His sincerity had won me over.
02:35Once I learned I was pregnant, I swore I would protect this child with my life, but it was all
02:39a lie.
02:39Everything he did was for Lyra.
02:41He even planned to strip me of my divine power and hand it over to her once she was born.
02:45As I forced down the bitter tonic, the movements in my womb grew violently erratic.
02:49Blinding pain ripped through my abdomen, leaving me drenched in cold sweat.
02:53That was when the horrifying realization hit me.
02:55The tonic wasn't for me at all.
02:57He was feeding Lyra.
02:58He was accelerating her growth.
03:00No wonder normal divine pregnancies lasted 200 years, yet I was already showing signs of labor at 100.
03:05I took several deep, shethering breaths until my racing heart settled.
03:09The truth was crystal clear.
03:11It was all a meticulously crafted trap.
03:13But perhaps it wasn't too late to run.
03:16In our three centuries of marriage, he had never once taken me back to the heavenly realm, claiming my fragile
03:21body couldn't withstand the lightning bat lesion at Tenlin Gates.
03:24But I'd rather take my chances with the heavenly tribulation than be discarded like trash after giving birth to Lyra.
03:29If I survived the lightning, I could return to the Dawn Temple and retrieve the primordial artifact my mother left
03:35me.
03:36Tears blurred my vision as I swallowed the remaining starlight bloom whole, roots and all.
03:41I made a vow.
03:42I would never let Lyra be born.
03:43And if I made it out alive, I would make Aetherian pay in blood.
03:47I channeled every ounce of my fading strength to suppress the violent movements in my womb.
03:52I coughed up a mouthful of blood, the crimson splatter staining a decorative chest nearby.
03:58It was the chest containing every gift he had given me during our courtship.
04:02Fighting through the agonizing cramps, I pulled out a magnificent gown woven entirely from gold threads.
04:09Aetherian had sort out the giant race, mining the purest ore from their ancient reserves.
04:14He spent three years drawing the gold into thread, weaving this gown stitch by stitch with his own hands.
04:20On our wedding day, dignitaries from across the three realms attended.
04:25There wasn't a soul who didn't envy me.
04:27But right now, the golden threads burned my eyes like needles.
04:31With a flick of my wrist, I summoned a flame.
04:34Fully intending to incinerate the dress, suddenly the door swung open.
04:39Aetherian walked in.
04:40Did you drink your medicine today, darling?
04:43What made you dig up the wedding dress?
04:46I heard the giants guarding the gold mines were imprisoned by the heavenly realm for 300 years for unelaparated mining.
04:53Now that our wedding is long past, why don't we melt this dress down and return the gold to them?
04:59Aetherian's face instantly dropped.
05:01No, I'm saving this dress for-
05:03He cut himself off, quickly recovering.
05:05Let's keep it as a mementi.
05:06After all, it's a testament to our love.
05:09Be good, Seraphina.
05:11Put it back.
05:11Hearing the word love from his lips brought the memory of his conversation with Morpheus crashing back.
05:17A hot wave of fury surged through my veins.
05:20I ignited a fireball and hurled it straight at the gown.
05:23Aetherian lunged forward, plunging his bare hands into the magical flames to snatch the dress back.
05:28The fire instantly seared his flesh, leaving his hands blistered and bleeding.
05:33Yet he didn't even flinch.
05:34He just pulled the dress to his chest, whispering as the hem of the gown tumbled from his arms.
05:39My eyes caught something stitched into the inner lining.
05:42Lyra.
05:43I froze.
05:44He had woven this dress by hand, alone.
05:47It wasn't for me.
05:48He had made it for Lyra.
05:49No wonder he panicked when I suggested melting it down.
05:52He was willing to burn his own hands to protect it.
05:54I reached out, ready to torch the entire chest of jewelry.
05:58Seraphina, are you out of your mind?
06:01Keep throwing this tantrum and I'll throw you into the Abyss of Shadow.
06:05I flinched, all the color draining from my face.
06:08The Abyss of Shadows.
06:10That was the underworld's maximum security prison.
06:13Seeing my stricken expression, his tone softened.
06:16He reached out to pull me into an embrace.
06:19Seraphina, I was joking.
06:21Promise me you won't touch these things again.
06:23And I'll make you your favorite honey-glazed figs.
06:27How does that sound?
06:28I bit the inside of my cheek so hard I tasted copper, refusing to speak.
06:34He tried to coax me a few more times, his voice a gentle hum, but I simply closed my eyes
06:39and turned my face away.
06:40Fine, since you want to be stubborn, go cool your head in the deep dungeons!
06:45The Abyss of Shadows was a living nightmare.
06:47Mangled corpses and bleached bones.
06:49I held my swollen belly, carefully navigating the treacherous path.
06:53But by the time we reached the cell, my lower back felt like it was splitting in two.
06:57My lady, I really don't get it.
06:59The Lord treats you so well.
07:02Couples fight all the time.
07:04Why couldn't you just apologize?
07:06Did it really have to come to this?
07:08The other guard nodded in agreement.
07:10Knowing I was the Lord's wife, they didn't dare treat me roughly.
07:13Suddenly, a shrill, piercing female voice echoed from inside my womb.
07:18Punish her, you useless trash.
07:21Do you think she's here on vacation?
07:23I stared at my stomach in sheer horror.
07:26It was Lyra's voice.
07:27She had already developed awareness of the outside world.
07:30She was communicating with her former subordinates through my flesh.
07:35Lady Lyra, is it you?
07:38You're alive.
07:39Shut up!
07:41If you know it's me, then punish this bitch!
07:45If you disobey me, I'll make you wish you were dead when I get out!
07:50Lyra had been the underworld's war goddess.
07:52There wasn't a soldier in the realm who hadn't suffered under her command.
07:56The two guards exchanged a dark look, all prior hesitation vanishing.
08:01They dragged me toward the river of fire.
08:03Suspended over the roaring, molten current was an iron cage.
08:07They forced the cage open and shoved me inside.
08:09The moment my shoulder grazed the iron roars, I heard the sickening hiss of searing flesh.
08:13The stench of my own roasting skin flooded my nostrils.
08:16Lyra's soul temporarily detached from my womb, hovering nearby to revel in my agony.
08:21The cage was suffocatingly small.
08:23I couldn't even shift my weight.
08:25My clothes melted upon contact with the bars, dripping away in charred clumps.
08:29My bare skin pressed directly against the superheated metal.
08:32It blistered, split, and bled.
08:35But the blood evaporated into steam before it could even hit the ground.
08:38I convulsed in agony.
08:39I wanted to scream, but my throat was so stourged that no sound came out.
08:43Can't take it anymore, you pathetic bitch.
08:46The river of fire won't kill a god, but it will make every inch of your body remember what pain
08:51is.
08:52How long do you think it'll take before you pass out?
08:55A day?
08:56Three days?
08:56I didn't answer.
08:57I didn't have the strength left to try.
09:00Time lost all meaning.
09:01My consciousness began to fray.
09:02I couldn't feel my arms or legs anymore.
09:04The only thought echoing my shattered mind was, I am going to die.
09:07Back in the palace, Aetherian finished preparing the honey-glazed figs.
09:11He wiped his hands and mentally linked with the guards.
09:13Has she learned her lesson?
09:15If she's done reflecting, bring her up.
09:18I made her favorite pastries.
09:19We can go for a walk after she eats.
09:22My lord, the lady hasn't said a word.
09:25She's just been pretending to sleep.
09:27Through the mental link, they sent him a manipulated visual of me curled up on the ground,
09:31my clothes intact, breathing steadily,
09:33making it look as though I was merely napping in an ordinary cell.
09:36Keep her locked up!
09:38I refuse to believe I can't break her stubbornness!
09:41Smashing the plate of honey-glazed figs to the floor,
09:43seeing me on the brink of death,
09:44Lyra panicked that she might lose her host.
09:47She quickly darted back into my womb,
09:48using her own divine power to shield my heart.
09:51But she wasn't showing mercy.
09:52She deliberately kept me conscious,
09:54crashing violently inside my stomach
09:56so I would feel every agonizing second of the flames.
09:59The pain was unbearable.
10:00I knew she was doing it on purpose,
10:01but I was completely powerless to suppress her.
10:03You whore!
10:05You took advantage of my death to steal Aetherian,
10:08hoarding everything that belonged to me!
10:10Today, I'm going to make you pay it back tenfold!
10:14Lyra screamed as she punched and kicked my insides.
10:16Cold sweat poured down my face
10:17as my bloody hands gripped the red-hot iron bars so hard the metal warped.
10:21Stop struggling!
10:22Just enjoy the ride!
10:25Her phantom hand reaching up to squeeze my heart.
10:27Right as my vision went black from lack of oxygen,
10:29she'd let go only to do it again and again,
10:32treating my torture like a morbid game.
10:33Just as the pain reached a breaking,
10:35a brilliant golden light erupted from my chest.
10:38Strange, ethereal threads extended from my body,
10:40surging with an unfamiliar, chaotic divine power
10:42that nearly blew the iron cage apart.
10:44In the royal bedroom,
10:45Aetherian had just hugged my pillow,
10:47preparing to sleep,
10:48when his heart and lease started racing.
10:50Serafina!
10:52The guards just reported that the lady is still resting, my lord.
10:55It's almost midnight,
10:57why not check on her tomorrow?
10:59A night of sleep might be exactly what she needs to see reason.
11:03Aetherian nodded slowly and lay back back ten.
11:06Down by the river of fire,
11:08my handmaid Iris dropped to her knees in front of my cage,
11:10sobbing uncontrollably.
11:12My lady!
11:14Who did this to you?
11:16When my divine power leaked,
11:18she sensed it and used the cloaking spell
11:19I had taught her to sneak into the dungeons.
11:21I was too weak to even open my eyes.
11:24I only recognized her by her voice.
11:26Unable to speak,
11:27I gathered enough strength to trace letters in the ash on the floor.
11:30She pulled out the ones I hadn't finished.
11:32Twelve stalks in total.
11:33Ignoring my scorched, bleeding throat,
11:35I swallowed them all at once.
11:37Twelve starlight blooms will only buy you two hours of power!
11:40What will you do after that?
11:41I offered her a weak, blood-stained smile.
11:43Two hours.
11:44That was more than enough time to fly to the heavenly realm
11:47and force a miscarriage.
11:48The temporary surge of divine power
11:49gave me the strength to suppress Lyra
11:51and heal the superficial burns covering my body.
11:53I blasted my way out of the Abyss of Shadows
11:55and shot upward,
11:56hurtling straight towards the heavenly realm.
11:58Half an hour later,
11:59the magical ring on my finger vibrated.
12:01Aetherian's voice echoed in my mind.
12:04Seraphina, where are you?
12:05Come back.
12:06I made the honey-glazed figs.
12:07It was an artifact we forged together when we married,
12:10allowing us to communicate across realms.
12:11I ignored him,
12:12pushing myself to fly faster.
12:14Seraphina!
12:15Stop hiding from me!
12:16My patience is wearing thin!
12:19Then, I heard the blood-glading screams
12:21of the two guards through the connection.
12:22Deep in the Abyss of Shadows,
12:24Aetherian stood before the molten cage,
12:25his face twisted into a mask of pure terror and rage.
12:28His suffocating divine arima
12:30crushed the soldiers to the floor.
12:31The cage had been scrubbed clean,
12:33completely devoid of my presence.
12:34But it was too clean.
12:36That was what made him suspicious.
12:37He had sensed a heavenly aura here last night.
12:40Why was it completely gone now?
12:41The lady just vanished out of nowhere!
12:43My lord, we swear we had nothing to do with it!
12:46Find her!
12:47The entire Abyss was turned upside down.
12:50The river of fire raged,
12:51torturing the damned souls within,
12:53and the underheld echoed with screams of agony.
12:56Where is she?
12:57How can there be no trace of her?
12:59Aetherian was losing his mind.
13:00His eyes bloodshot from days without sleep.
13:02The ring pulsed wildly with his calls,
13:05hardening my heart.
13:06I ripped the ring from my finger
13:07and hurled it into the void below,
13:09finally severing his hold on me.
13:10Just before my divine power ran dry,
13:12I breached the heavenly gates.
13:14Before my feet could even touch the ground,
13:16a massive bolt of heavenly lightning
13:17struck down from the sky.
13:19I channeled the very last remnants
13:20of the starlight room's power to brace myself,
13:23but the impact sent me crashing to the floor,
13:25coughing up blood.
13:26When I tried to push myself up,
13:27I realized my body was completely empty.
13:30I had no divine power left.
13:33Freed from my suppression,
13:34Lila began screaming from inside my womb.
13:36You crazy bitch!
13:38What are you doing?
13:38If you want to die,
13:39don't drag me down with you!
13:41Go back!
13:41The second bolt of lightning tore through the sky.
13:44My war god armor manifest,
13:46shielding me from the catastrophic blow.
13:48Lila instantly stopped screaming.
13:50The armor shattered,
13:51the backlash searing my flesh
13:52and heavily wounding her soul inside me.
13:54But it wasn't enough.
13:55I wanted her dead.
13:57Down in the underworld,
13:58Aetherian heard the thunderclaps
13:59and finally realized what was happening.
14:01I was being judged by the heavenly tribulation.
14:03Pain ripped through his chest
14:05as he shot toward the heavens.
14:06As the third and deadliest bolt of lightning descended,
14:09he arrived just in time to intercept half of the blast.
14:12Even though he absorbed most of it,
14:13I had nothing left to defend myself.
14:15I collapsed,
14:16my abdomen erupting in blinding agony.
14:19Seraphina, are you insane?
14:21But a split second before he reached me,
14:23Lyra tore her way out of my body.
14:26Aetherian, save me!
14:28This bitch tried to kill me with the lightning!
14:31But she looked nothing like the majestic portraits
14:33Aetherian kept hidden in his study.
14:35Half of her face was mangled by horrific burn scars,
14:39devoid of any war goddess glory.
14:41The lightning damage and the premature birth
14:43had ruined her.
14:44She glared at me with pure venom,
14:47stumbling forward with her hands outstretched,
14:49trying to strangle me.
14:51I threw my hand up to push her away.
14:53With her weakened state,
14:55she flew backward like a paper doll,
14:57crashing directly into Aetherian's arms.
15:01Aetherian, I just wanted to help her up,
15:03and she tried to push me off the edge of the realm!
15:05Aetherian raised his hand
15:07and struck me hard across the face.
15:09The slap echoed like a gunshot.
15:11Seraphina!
15:12You heartless monster!
15:14You tried to use the heavenly lightning
15:16to execute Lyra,
15:17leaving her disfigured and premature.
15:19For 300 years, I treated you like a queen!
15:22I merely borrow your womb!
15:23I never intended to harm you!
15:25How could you be this vicious?!
15:27I couldn't speak.
15:28I just stared at him.
15:30My face is ruined.
15:32I'd rather be dead than live like this.
15:36Just kill me.
15:39No, no, I have a way to fix you.
15:40Just trust me.
15:42What way?
15:43Flaying the skin off my face
15:44and grafting it onto hers.
15:46I spat out another mouthful of blood.
15:48I didn't have the energy to argue anymore.
15:50I didn't even want to.
15:52Lyra was the one trying to kill me.
15:54But the moment she pleaded the victim,
15:55he believed her without a second thought.
15:58I was lying there in a pool of my own blood.
16:01My armor shattered to pieces,
16:03yet all he saw was her.
16:05I looked down at my broken body.
16:06The humiliation of being exiled from the heavenly realm years ago
16:10washing over me anew.
16:11A sphere of fire ignited in Aetherian's palm,
16:15ready to strike me down.
16:16But before he could cast it,
16:18a blinding beam of white light shot from the distance.
16:21I didn't see who cast it before the world went black.
16:23I don't know how long I was out,
16:25but I woke up in a massive, sunlit bed.
16:28I shifted my limbs.
16:29The agonizing heaviness was gone.
16:32The burns from the heavenly lightning had vanished without a trace.
16:35But what truly shocked me was the power stirring deep within my soul.
16:39It felt as though an ancient entity inside me was slowly opening its eyes.
16:43The last thing I remembered was Aesirian preparing to execute me.
16:47Why was I perfectly fine, lying in this lavish palace?
16:50I bolted upright in shock.
16:52A man in flowing white robes,
16:54wearing a crown of golden laurel leaves,
16:57walked into the room.
16:58Seeing me awake, his face lit up,
16:59and he pulled me into a tight embrace.
17:02Serafina, you're finally awake.
17:04Does anything hurt?
17:05I stared at him in bewilderment.
17:08Realizing my confusion,
17:09he offered a fond, indulgent smile
17:11and gently flicked my forehead.
17:13A flood of memories that didn't belong to me
17:15crashed into my mind.
17:17When I was expelled from the heavenly realm three centuries ago,
17:20a single tear I left behind
17:21drifted to the steps of this very palace.
17:23The domain of the primordial god Orion.
17:26The tear transformed into a tiny, ethereal serpent made of light.
17:30Orion kept the little light snake as a pet.
17:33Over the last 300 years,
17:35bathed in the spiritual energy of a primordial god,
17:38the serpent slowly took on my physical form.
17:40Orion had offered to reconstruct a proper physical body for her,
17:44but she refused.
17:46Because a Tyrion had cloaked my aura in the underworld,
17:49Orion couldn't locate me.
17:51Thank you for treating me with such care.
17:54But I am not her.
17:56I cannot stay here.
17:58I tried to pull away.
17:59He leaned in and kissed me fiercely.
18:01The sensation was dizzying,
18:03of the serpent's desperate longing
18:05and my own instinctive resistance.
18:07I didn't know whether to push him away or kiss him back.
18:10He kissed me until my mind went blank.
18:12He suddenly froze.
18:14He pulled back, chest heaving.
18:16I'm sorry.
18:17I forgot you just gave birth.
18:20Your body is still recovering.
18:22I rushed this.
18:23Focus on healing first.
18:25I hastily pulled my robes up,
18:27but a wave of profound gratitude washed over me.
18:30Unlike a Tyrion,
18:31Orion understood boundaries.
18:33I was desperate to regain my strength
18:34so I could exact my revenge.
18:36Seeing my urgency,
18:38Orion literally extracted his own divine power
18:40and infused it into my veins.
18:42He fed me countless celestive herbs.
18:45Within a week,
18:4630 to 40% of my original power had returned.
18:49More importantly,
18:50the dormant power of fate inside me
18:52was slowly awakening.
18:53Just as I was plotting my revenge
18:54on my ex-husband,
18:56Serevius,
18:57the bastard delivered himself to my doorstep.
18:59Serafina,
19:00my beautiful fiance.
19:02It was my father who forced me
19:03to take your septer that day.
19:05There hasn't been a single day
19:06in the last 300 years
19:07that I haven't thought of you.
19:08Will you return to the heavenly realm
19:10and be my queen?
19:11He put on a masterful display of remorse,
19:13but my heart felt nothing but venomous hatred.
19:16I knew exactly what had happened.
19:17He stole the Scepter of Dawn
19:19to murder his own father
19:20and seize the throne.
19:21No one forced him.
19:22It was his choice.
19:24He knew I was suffering
19:25in the underworld for three centuries,
19:27yet he never once came looking for me.
19:29He was only here
19:30because he sensed my power growing.
19:33The Scepter of Dawn was reacting
19:34to its true master,
19:36and he was losing control of it.
19:37I was going to make him pay
19:39for the humiliation of my exile
19:40and the 300 years of torture
19:42in the underworld.
19:43Today,
19:44even if it cost me my life,
19:45I would have my revenge.
19:47Gripping the Starforged sword
19:48Orion had given me,
19:49I charged.
19:50Cerevis stood his ground,
19:51a sickeningly arrogant smirk
19:53playing on his lips.
19:54He knew my body was still weak,
19:55and I didn't have the seppler.
19:57His little apology speech
19:58was just a formality.
19:59He wanted to coax me back
20:00without a fight
20:01so he could torture me
20:02behind closed doors.
20:03During the clash,
20:04he tactically forced me backward,
20:06driving us down
20:07toward the mortal realm.
20:08The mortal world
20:10had no divine oversight,
20:11with his countless legions
20:13killing me quietly down there
20:15with child's prey.
20:16Just as Cerevis moved in
20:18for the kill,
20:18a blinding golden light
20:20struck the earth.
20:21Orion materialized out of thin air,
20:24throwing a protective arm
20:25in front of me.
20:26Serafina,
20:27leave this filth to me.
20:29Don't dirty your hands.
20:30His divine arima
20:31erupted like a tidal ray.
20:33Even as the heavenly god king,
20:36wielding two elemental stepsels,
20:38Cerevis could barely hold his ground
20:40against the primordial god,
20:41taking advantage of the distraction.
20:44I closed my eyes,
20:45reaching out with the threads
20:46of my returning power
20:47to summon the sepulor of dawn
20:48from within Cerevis' chest.
20:51Cerevis gasped,
20:52cluffing his heart
20:53as he frantically tried
20:54to repress the weapon,
20:55but it was useless.
20:57The scepter ripped its way
20:58out of his chest
20:59and flew into my waiting hand,
21:01radiating a familiar,
21:02scorching warmth.
21:03The moment my fingers
21:04closed around the hilt,
21:05an explosive shockwave of light
21:07leveled the battlefield.
21:08It was singing for me.
21:10So what if you're the god king?
21:12You touch my woman.
21:13You pay the ultimate price.
21:15With a mere flick of his finger,
21:17Orion yanked the second artifact,
21:19the Scepter of Thunder,
21:20straight out of Cerevis' body.
21:22It floated in the air,
21:23humming with trapped lightning.
21:24Your woman?
21:26Cerevis choked out,
21:27his eyes wide with horror
21:29as his body ill-voluntarily
21:30dropped to its knees.
21:32She is my fiancée.
21:33Before he could finish,
21:34his divine form shattered,
21:36reverting to his true,
21:37pathetic shape,
21:38a plucked, golden crow.
21:39You murdered your wife
21:41and slaughtered your father.
21:42You deserve worse than death.
21:44With a sweeping gesture,
21:45he swatted the miserable bird over,
21:47the edge of the bottomless abyss.
21:49Serafina, let's go home.
21:51The apples in the sanctuary orchard are ripe.
21:53I'll pick the sweetest ones for you.
21:55He pulled me into his arms,
21:57gazing at me with overwhelming tendness.
22:00I was moved by how fiercely he protected me,
22:02but my body still instinctively tent.
22:04I wasn't used to this kind of intimacy.
22:07In the brief moment I had summoned the Scepter,
22:09I caught Orion glancing at me
22:10from the corner of his eye.
22:11It was a dark, complicated look,
22:14one I couldn't quite decipher.
22:15But regardless,
22:17he had just eradicated Cerevis.
22:19He had helped me extract my revenge.
22:21I cast one last look towards the heavenly realm,
22:24a silent goodbye to my past.
22:26That night, back in Orion's sanctuary,
22:29my sleaze plagued by violent nightmares.
22:31It started peacefully,
22:32my clan dancing and singing around a bonfire.
22:35Then, the world warped into hell.
22:38Severed limbs and fountains of blood flooded my vision.
22:41Sister, save me!
22:42Auntie, it hurts!
22:43The screams of my family tore through my skull.
22:46I shot up in bed, screaming, drenched in a cold sweat.
22:49A familiar voice broke through the panic.
22:52My lady, don't be afraid.
22:53It's just a nightmare.
22:54I blinked against the darknesses.
22:57It was Iris.
22:58How did you get to the sanctuary?
23:00Aetherian actually let you leave?
23:01Her eyes were red, her voice thick with tears.
23:04I missed you so much, my lady.
23:06I begged the Lord on my knees to let me go.
23:09When he heard I was coming to find you,
23:10he didn't stop me.
23:11She gently wiped the sweat from my forehead
23:13and offered me a cup of hot tea,
23:15carefully bringing it to my lips.
23:17Just as the rim touched my mouth,
23:19a memory sparked in my mind.
23:20By the way,
23:21when my uncle was injured by the Hydra,
23:24I heard you took care of him for three years before he recovered.
23:27I saw him in my dream just now.
23:29He said he misses you.
23:31Iris froze.
23:32A flicker of panic crossed her eyes before she nodded vigorously.
23:35I miss him every day, too.
23:37If Saravis hadn't been so cruel and banished our people,
23:40I could go back and see him right now.
23:42I stared into her eyes.
23:44They were beautiful,
23:45but entirely devoid of life.
23:47I backhanded the cup,
23:49splashing the scalding tea directly into her face.
23:51My uncle was killed instantly by the Titan gods!
23:55You never took care of him for three years!
23:58You're not Iris!
23:59As the enchanted tea burned her skin,
24:02thick green smoke bullowed from her face.
24:04When the smoke cleared,
24:06it revealed Lyra's grotesquely scarred visilage.
24:09She threw her head back and cackled.
24:11Iris has been dead for weeks!
24:14The moment she helped you escape,
24:16I threw her into the Abyss of Shadows.
24:18A pathetic little handmaid.
24:20She couldn't even survive the lightest torture.
24:23I flag her alive.
24:24She died screaming.
24:26It's a shame you saw through my disguise.
24:28I was going to trick you into coming back to the underworld to butcher you properly.
24:32You pathetic bitch!
24:34I really underestimated you!
24:36Rage and grief blinded me.
24:38My hands shook violently.
24:39Iris had only survived the heavenly realm's purge because she had sneaked down to the
24:44mental world to play.
24:45Aethrian had moved mountains to find her and bring her to me.
24:48She was the very last of my bloodline.
24:51Unleashing my full divine power,
24:53I seized Lyra by the throat and dragged her out towards the Sanctuary's Judgment Cliff.
24:58Everything you did to me in the Abyss of Shadows,
25:00plus Iris' life,
25:01today you pay it all back in blood.
25:04Today you pay it all back in blood.
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