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Death of an Angel
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00:00My sister screamed for three days and sighed inside of the devil's seal before she died.
00:06No one came.
00:08My parents were too busy throwing a banquet for Lilith, the orphan they loved more than their own blood.
00:15And my husband? He was in Lilith's bed.
00:18For five years I tore this world apart looking for my elder sister Sophia.
00:23They told me she vanished. They told me she left willingly.
00:26They told me to stop asking questions and be grateful.
00:30Grateful that Lilith sacrificed her flesh and blood to seal the devil's lies.
00:34Every word built on my sister's bones.
00:38Sophia didn't vanish. She was sealed alive inside the devil's abbess.
00:42Her soul devoured. Her screams swallowed by darkness.
00:46And above her grave, Lilith smiled for the crowd and played the saint.
00:52Filled with rage and determined to avenge her, I suddenly heard her voice.
00:57Elara, I have returned to the celestial kingdom.
01:01Hurry and die, so you can come back too.
01:03My memories flooded back an instant.
01:06Good thanks to her reminder.
01:08I had truly forgotten.
01:11I was an ancient archangel, descending to the mortal realm to undergo a divine trial.
01:17Yet I believed I was just a native of this world.
01:20I had failed my love trial, but I still had to uphold my sacred duty.
01:24I decided to do one last good deed before I died.
01:27Seal the devils completely.
01:29As I approached the devil's seal, I received voice transmissions from my husband and parents.
01:33Drama queen, you've come up with such a foolish trick.
01:37Just trying to imitate Lilith by sealing devils.
01:40Step into the seal and you'll die for sure.
01:43Dare you really go through with it?
01:44It was that Lilith again.
01:46For her, everyone had lost their mind.
01:50I touched the time-bearing crystal in my arms and stepped boldly into the seal.
01:57A dragon general could not help but urge me.
02:00He's only taking a mistress.
02:03You will still be his only official wife.
02:07Even if you're angry, you don't have to risk your life.
02:10Just to spite his pine as the crown prince.
02:13I'm really not doing this for him.
02:15My words were sincere, yet no one believed me.
02:18Everyone assumed I was furious that Alexander was taking Lilith as his mistress,
02:23staking my life to put on a grand show and ruin Lilith's happiness.
02:27I was no longer Alara, the mortal princess consumed by love.
02:31As I stepped closer and closer to the seal,
02:33the communication amulet at my waist suddenly lit up.
02:39You'll stop at nothing to prevent me from marrying Lilith.
02:44Lilith's father saved your knave.
02:46Five years ago, she sacrificed her sure flesh and blood to seal the devils.
02:51She's in poor health.
02:53Only when she'll wister with me, just as a mordons.
02:56We abuse you leave her in a peace.
02:58On our winding day, you threaten me with your life
03:01and drive away from the Belle, Ren, Gui, and Longzous,
03:05humiliating Lilith.
03:06Alara, I hope you really dare to die.
03:14Alara, I hope you really dare to die.
03:16Or I'll lose all respect for you.
03:19His voice was furious, almost a snar,
03:22and alongside it came Lilith's sobbing, pitiful whimpers.
03:26Alara, you and your sister Sophia are truly siblings.
03:29She was lead and shameless,
03:30abandoning righteousness for a man and fleeing during the prayer ceremony,
03:34forcing Lilith to sacrifice her flesh and blood.
03:36And you, following her example, consumed by jealousy,
03:39humiliating her on her wedding day.
03:41I give you one last chance.
03:43Return with the guests to the wedding,
03:46and kneel to apologize to Lilith.
03:49Or else.
03:50He ground his teeth.
03:52Malice is dripping from his voice.
03:54Even if you are a princess,
03:57I will still divorce you.
03:59Alara!
04:01Stop this farce!
04:03You're just as hypocritical as your worthless sister!
04:06I've had the worst luck.
04:09Both my own daughters,
04:11Borat,
04:12are vicious and despicable!
04:16Ungrateful ret!
04:17Lilith's father saved your lives!
04:23A sharp pain pierced my heart,
04:25and I trembled with anger.
04:28Even though I knew this was only a love trial,
04:31the love and pain I felt were real.
04:33My elder sister Sophia had died in the Devil's Seal in this life five years ago
04:37and still bore such vile slander.
04:39During the great war between angels and devils,
04:42my sister and I fought side by side.
04:45But General Blackwood was distracted,
04:47and later died carelessly in battle.
04:50When we returned to the Angelic Realm,
04:52a rumor spread for no reason.
04:53General Blackwood had died on the battlefield saving the two princesses.
04:56Everyone mourns General Blackwood.
04:58No one will believe you if you say he didn't save you.
05:01Lilith, the hero's daughter,
05:03fainted at his funeral,
05:04sending everyone's sympathy soaring.
05:06Under public pressure,
05:07I will adopt Lilith.
05:08But rest assured,
05:10I know the truth.
05:12He said Lilith could never compare to my sister and me.
05:15But as days turned to months,
05:16the adopted daughter
05:17eventually overshadowed his own flesh and blood.
05:21But General Blackwood never saved us.
05:23You call my sister and I vicious and dispillable.
05:25Then what about the Blackwood family?
05:27Have you lied so much,
05:28pretended for so long,
05:29that falsehood has become true?
05:31My father's scolding fell silence,
05:33and the other end of the communication amulet went dead quiet.
05:35The princess is denying my father's life-saving grace.
05:38It's my fault.
05:40I angered the princess
05:42and tarnished my dead father's reputation.
05:45My father devoted his life to the angelic realm.
05:49He cannot bear the princess's slander.
05:52You hate my husband for loving me and jeetles me.
05:55I can ginsho,
05:56but I never tolerate you,
05:57Sander, my father.
05:58I will give my life to defend my father's innocence.
06:07Enough, Alar.
06:08You've lost your mind to jealousy.
06:09Everyone knows General Blackwood saved you.
06:11How dare you speak such nonsense?
06:13Lilith has fainted from grief.
06:15Return at once and fix this mess.
06:17Do you want your father and I to be shamed
06:19for mistreating the hero's daughter?
06:20It was my own weakness.
06:22Having lived for 10,000 years,
06:24I had fallen to a love trial.
06:25Family love and romantic love,
06:27I had gained neither.
06:28Let's go.
06:29I had not walked far
06:30when shouts erupted behind me.
06:33Deadly attacks rained down from the sky.
06:36Traitors!
06:37Witch, drop deed!
06:39Ungrateful monster!
06:40You don't deserve to live!
06:42How tragic that General Blackwood died
06:44saving someone like you!
06:46He should never have saved you!
06:47You repay kindness and cruelty
06:48and bully the hero's daughter!
06:50We'll avenge Miss Lilith!
06:51These men had all served
06:53under General Blackwood.
06:54They had attended Limith's wedding
06:55and heard my words
06:56through the communication amulet.
06:58Filled with righteous indignation,
07:00they rushed to defend Limith.
07:01More and more people swarmed to attack me.
07:04Sword blades sliced my arm,
07:05whipped lost my body.
07:07He never saved me!
07:09The Blackwood family are the liars!
07:11Even now you won't tell the truth?
07:13Don't you really know
07:14if my sister is dead or fled?
07:16I'm being cursed and attacked.
07:17Don't you feel even a shred of pity?
07:18I found the secret letter
07:19my sister left me.
07:20The Blackwood family colluded with...
07:22Silence!
07:23I'll beat you to death,
07:25you ranting monster!
07:28I'll beat you to death,
07:29you ranting monster!
07:31Yet the pain on my face
07:33was not even a hundredth
07:34of the pain in my heart.
07:36My mother was this agitated.
07:38Why would she not let me finish speaking?
07:39I stared at her,
07:41covering my stinging cheek,
07:42and saw a flash of guilt
07:44cross her face and my father's.
07:46Before I regained my angelic memories,
07:48I had loved my parents in this life
07:50with all my heart.
07:52Even when they favored Lilith,
07:53I had made endless excuses for them.
07:56But now,
07:57I understood everything.
07:59Very well,
08:00let's say I'm ranting nonsense.
08:01I only ask you do not stop me
08:03from sealing the devils
08:04and give the innocent a chance to live.
08:06The moment I finished,
08:07my father waved his hand
08:09and knocked me micently to the ground.
08:11Even now you still refuse to yield.
08:13What ability do you have
08:14to seal the devils?
08:15Last time,
08:16your sister boasted the same,
08:17vowing to pray and seal the devils.
08:19And what happened?
08:20She fled that very day.
08:21Only Lilith
08:22sacrificed her flesh and blood
08:23to save us all.
08:24Now you'll make the same fool of yourself.
08:29My sister did not flee.
08:32The day before,
08:33she said she had a secret
08:35about the Blackwood family
08:36to reveal at the prayer ceremony.
08:38The next day,
08:39Sophia vanished.
08:40Too much of a coincidence.
08:42Everyone claimed she had run away.
08:44Even her husband Lucien
08:46refused to believe her.
08:47Lilith became the hero
08:48who saved everyone.
08:49And my sister Sophia,
08:51cursed by thousands,
08:53stripped of her title as princess,
08:55Lucien became Lilith's loyal lap hog.
08:58I realized this lifetime of love and hate
09:01was nothing but a trial of family and love.
09:04We had both failed.
09:05No one truly loved us.
09:07No one trusted us.
09:08Before returning to the celestial kingdom,
09:11sealing the devils
09:11was the last thing I could do
09:13for this world.
09:14Speak one more word
09:15slandering Lilith
09:16and the Blackwood family
09:18and I will divorce you.
09:20Ilara,
09:20I give you one final chance.
09:23Kneel and apologize to Lilith
09:24and General Blackwood's spirit.
09:27War looked at him calmly
09:28and sneered.
09:29Then divorce me.
09:31Before he could react,
09:32I tore the engagement ring
09:34through my finger
09:35and smashed it violently
09:36to the ground.
09:39From this day on,
09:41all ties between us
09:42are severed
09:43just like this ring.
09:45To regain my freedom
09:46before death,
09:47it was a small comfort.
09:53How far will you go?
09:55How could you break
09:56our engagement ring so easily?
09:57On our wedding day,
09:59we each held a matching ring,
10:00dripped our blood onto it,
10:01and swore love
10:02for three lifetimes.
10:04I'm not acting out.
10:05I mean every word.
10:08Alexander,
10:08if you love Lilith,
10:10why bind me to you
10:11for three lifetimes?
10:14And this heart
10:15beating in my chest.
10:17Years ago,
10:18I had been injured
10:19and stranded
10:19in the Eastern Sea.
10:21Alexander had saved me,
10:22placing a dragon crystal
10:23he had cultivated
10:24for half his lifetime
10:25inside my heart
10:26to heal my body.
10:29I had once thought
10:30this was proof of his love.
10:31on countless nights
10:33of heartache and sorrow.
10:37It's time to give it back.
10:41I stabbed the dagger
10:43deep into my chest,
10:44and a glowing dragon crystal
10:46appeared in my hand.
10:51Uncontrollable blood
10:52burst from my mouth,
10:53soaking my robes.
10:55Allura!
10:57How could you be so reckless?
10:59All you had to do
10:59was kneel and apologize.
11:00Why hurt yourself like this?
11:02Even if I take Lilith,
11:03you will still be my only wife.
11:04No wonder he misunderstood.
11:06Everyone had seen
11:07how deeply I once loved him.
11:09The angelic realm
11:10respected strength above all,
11:12regardless of gender.
11:13In this life,
11:13I had been born
11:14with extraordinary
11:15angelic power.
11:16Barring accident,
11:17I would have been
11:17the next empress
11:18of the angelic realm.
11:19Yet after traveling
11:20to the Eastern Sea
11:21for training,
11:22I had stubbornly
11:23insisted on marrying.
11:24I gave up my title
11:25as future empress
11:26to become the crown princess
11:27of the dragon climb,
11:29devoting myself
11:29to husband and children,
11:31spending my life
11:32with Alexander.
11:34I endured the confusion
11:35and mockery of my clan,
11:37telling myself
11:38countless times
11:39as long as I could be
11:40with Alexander,
11:41everything was worth it.
11:46Princess Allura,
11:47why do you hate me so much
11:48that you threatened
11:49my foster parents
11:50and husband with your life?
11:51My father died for you,
11:53yet I bear you no grudge.
11:55A shadow flashed
11:56across her eyes,
11:57gone in an instant.
11:58Very well,
11:59you are a princess,
12:00I dare compete.
12:02Let me day
12:03and everyone will be at peace.
12:05Her eyes reddened
12:06and she pressed
12:07a dagger to her wrist.
12:09Lilith!
12:11My mother screamed
12:12and rushed to hold her,
12:13while my father
12:14kicked me hard.
12:16You won't rest
12:18until you've killed us!
12:20Must you drive Lilith
12:21to her death?
12:23Die if you want,
12:24but don't harm Lilith!
12:26I collapsed to the ground,
12:27my vision darking.
12:29My father had used
12:30his full strength.
12:31Without the dragon crystal
12:32protecting me,
12:33my heart veins were fragile
12:34and I trembled in agony
12:36through blurry eyes.
12:37I watched my parents
12:38and husband
12:39crowd around Lilith.
12:43Princess Allura,
12:45perhaps you should stop this.
12:46They've left.
12:47Someone beside me sighed,
12:48pity in their voice.
12:49I forced a bitter smile
12:50and struggled to stand.
12:52Let them leave!
12:53I truly came to seal
12:54the devils.
12:55I'm not putting on
12:56a show for them.
12:57At that moment,
12:57the devil's seal roared loudly,
12:59cracks tearing outward
13:01in all directions,
13:02the runes fading
13:03in an instant,
13:04chilling winds howled,
13:05sand and stones flying.
13:13No!
13:14The devils are about
13:15to break free!
13:16Archangel Emperor,
13:18bring Lilith back at once!
13:19The seal is breaking!
13:21We need to reseal it!
13:23Devil King,
13:24are you also joining
13:25my worthless daughter's nonsense?
13:26Just left,
13:27the seal was perfectly stable.
13:31The seal is cracking!
13:33Your daughter,
13:34Alarda,
13:34is going to sacrifice
13:35herself to seal it!
13:36Can you really bear that?
13:38Last time,
13:39Lilith gave only a little blood
13:40and sealed the devils.
13:41If she sacrifices a drop more,
13:43your daughter won't have to die!
13:44Can't you tell
13:45what's more important?
13:46Lilith has suffered enough today.
13:47How much longer
13:48will Alara bully her?
13:49Let her die if she wishes!
13:52Empress!
13:53Princess Alara
13:53is your own daughter!
13:54Can you really bear this?
13:56Your drop for the blood,
13:58adaptive daughter,
13:59or the life of life
14:00of their daughter!
14:01Which matters more?
14:02My mother's voice
14:03cut through,
14:04cold and clear.
14:07Lilith matters more.
14:13My heart shattered.
14:15I stepped without hesitation
14:17into the devil's seal.
14:18Princess Alara!
14:21Panicked shouts rang out behind me.
14:23My flesh and blood
14:25turned to golden threads,
14:27wrapping tightly around
14:28the sealing rooms,
14:29forcibly restraining
14:30the raging devils.
14:31I could feel my life
14:32fading rapidly,
14:33my consciousness
14:34slipping away
14:35until everything went dark.
14:37Come home, Alara!
14:41Come home, Alara!
14:43The devil shrieked in rage,
14:45demonic energy swirling
14:47and roaring in defiance
14:48before being dragged
14:49back into the earth.
14:50At the same time,
14:52Alexander,
14:53holding Lilith,
14:54froze abruptly.
14:56The wedding ring
14:56he wore on his finger
14:57shattered into dust.
14:59The archangel emperor
15:00and Ventress
15:01felt a sharp pain
15:03in their souls.
15:06The soul lamps
15:07linked to their daughters
15:08had gone out completely.
15:11What's happening?
15:13Alara is hurt.
15:14She really entered the seal?
15:15She was always cowardly
15:16and afraid of death,
15:17giving up her angelic throne
15:19just to be my wife.
15:20How could she truly
15:21sacrifice herself?
15:22Impossible!
15:23They raced back
15:25to the devil's seal
15:26in a frenzy,
15:28only to find
15:29the leaders
15:29of the five clans
15:30standing there,
15:32grief-stricken.
15:33None had believed
15:34I would truly
15:35seal the devils
15:36or give my life
15:37to do so.
15:38If only we had
15:39stood up for her
15:40when they cursed
15:41and hurt her!
15:42Yes,
15:43she was in such pain
15:44and she cried
15:45until the very end.
15:47How much did she
15:48pay you to lie?
15:50This is all an act!
15:52I know it's fake!
15:53Now you panic?
15:54I told you again
15:56and again
15:56she was sacrificing herself
15:57that she would die.
15:59What did you say?
16:00Tell her to die!
16:02I've heard that
16:02angelic children
16:03are bound to their parents
16:05by soul lamps from birth.
16:06You know better
16:07than anyone
16:08if she's dead.
16:09My parents turned
16:11pale as snow.
16:15Silence fell over the world.
16:17Impossible.
16:19How could she...
16:21How could she bear to die?
16:23She must be angry
16:25that I'm marrying Lilith.
16:26Soul lamps.
16:28Alara has great power.
16:30She must have tricked us.
16:31A prank.
16:32She's always chosen.
16:33Yes.
16:34Both sisters are naughty.
16:36When Sophia fled before,
16:38she faked her soul lamp
16:39going out to scare us.
16:41When they come back,
16:42I'll punish them severely.
16:44How dare they do this!
16:47Foster father,
16:48foster mother,
16:49it's all my fault.
16:50If not for me,
16:51Alara and Sophia
16:52wouldn't have done this.
16:54I shouldn't have lived.
16:55Let me die to atone.
16:57This is not your fault.
16:58Your father saved their lives,
17:00yet they were jealous
17:00and cruel to you.
17:04Alexander Wright,
17:05you deserve to live.
17:07They were willful
17:08and reckless.
17:09This is not your fault.
17:11They huddled together,
17:12crying and consoling
17:13one another,
17:14unaware of the disgusted
17:15stares around them.
17:16I can't watch this
17:17any longer.
17:18Archangel Emperor,
17:19your daughter sacrificed
17:20herself to save the world
17:22and seal the devils,
17:23and you call her
17:24willful and reckless?
17:25Even if Lilith
17:26is a hero's daughter,
17:27how can you favor her
17:28this much?
17:29Which one is your
17:29adopted daughter,
17:30and which is your own
17:31flesh and blood?
17:38My daughter had always
17:40lied, cowardly,
17:41and selfish.
17:42You've been tricked.
17:43She would never
17:44sacrifice herself.
17:45She's not dead.
17:47She's not dead.
17:48She's hiding somewhere,
17:50watching us grieve.
17:52A clot of mud
17:53slammed into my mother's face,
17:55silencing her bitter words.
17:57A clot of mud
17:58slammed into my mother's face,
18:00silencing her bitter words.
18:02More filth and stones
18:03rained down on my parents
18:05and Alexander.
18:06We watched her
18:06step into the seal.
18:08She didn't hesitate,
18:09not even turning back.
18:11She truly meant
18:12to give her life.
18:14Feel the runes
18:15on the seal.
18:17Can't you feel
18:18your daughter's flesh
18:19and blood woven into them?
18:22My mother was forced
18:24to the edge of the seal,
18:25trembling as she reached out.
18:27The moment her fingers
18:28touched the runes,
18:29golden light glazed,
18:31the flesh and blood
18:32retinacnizing its mother.
18:34My mother froze,
18:35terror twisting her face.
18:38The mother froze,
18:40terror twisting her face.
18:41Seeing her reaction,
18:43Alexander's face contorted.
18:45He channeled
18:46all his spiritual power,
18:48clearing the mist
18:49above the seal,
18:50scanning desperately,
18:52until at the very core,
18:53he spotted
18:54a lifelike marble statue.
18:55Angelic marble bone
18:56those who die
18:57in sacrifice
18:57turned to stone.
18:58The statue at the heart
18:59of the seal
18:59had a peaceful face,
19:00eyes gently closed.
19:02It was me.
19:02Golden threads woven
19:03from my flesh,
19:04blood,
19:05and angelic power
19:06formed a death's net,
19:08trapping the roaring
19:09devil's feet
19:09under the ground.
19:11It's my Alara.
19:13Not far from my statue
19:14stood another
19:15faded marble carving.
19:17When my mother saw it,
19:19her composure
19:19shattered completely.
19:22It's my Sophia!
19:24She lunged madly
19:25toward the seal.
19:26My daughters!
19:27Both my daughters
19:29are dead!
19:31You'll die too
19:32if you go in.
19:33My father held her
19:34back tightly,
19:35his face grim.
19:36I'd rather die!
19:41My mother screamed,
19:43biting and scratching him.
19:48Why does it love you?
19:51You told me Sophia
19:52was alive,
19:53that she faked
19:54her soul lamp,
19:55that she fled.
19:55She never ran.
19:57She died in the seal.
20:01What were you thinking?
20:03Why did you lie to me?
20:05She collapsed to the ground,
20:07beating her chest
20:08and wailing.
20:11Both my daughters
20:13neither survived!
20:15My father clenched his fists.
20:18Agony etched on his face.
20:20I suspected,
20:21but I never thought
20:23she was truly dead.
20:24I only ignored it
20:26to keep my throne stable.
20:28Everyone had celebrated
20:30Lilith's heroic sealing
20:31of the devils.
20:33My father had wanted
20:34the scandal
20:34of Sophia's
20:35supposed desertion buried.
20:37He did not want
20:39to investigate.
20:41He dared not investigate.
20:43He had accepted
20:44the lie
20:45that Sophia
20:46had fled selfishly.
20:48You knew?
20:50You suspected
20:51and did nothing?
20:52A figure lunged forward,
20:54roaring at my father.
20:55It was Lucian,
20:57my sister's husband.
20:57How could you ignore
20:59your own daughter's fate?
21:00How could you ignore
21:01your own daughter's fate?
21:03If you hadn't lied,
21:04I would never have believed
21:07Sophia was so selfish.
21:10He shoved my father,
21:12grief and rage
21:13consuming him.
21:14Sophia died
21:15sealing the devils,
21:16and I cursed
21:17and despised her
21:18every day after.
21:19My father stumbled back,
21:21snarling in anger.
21:23Don't blame me.
21:25If you truly loved her,
21:26you wouldn't have believed
21:27such ridiculous rumors.
21:29He turned to my mother.
21:31And you rage at me now.
21:33But you helped hide
21:35the truth
21:36and favor
21:37Limith
21:38every step of the way.
21:41Now,
21:42you face
21:43the consequence.
21:44Wait!
21:45The Ghost King,
21:46silent until now,
21:47let out a cold laugh.
21:49I'm still confused.
21:51What secrets
21:52has the Angelic Realm hidden?
21:54Princess Alara
21:55sacrificed herself
21:56for justice.
21:57We must avenge her wrongs.
21:59The crowd surrounded them.
22:01And Princess Sophia
22:02in the seal.
22:03What truly happened to her?
22:05Faced with the furious mob,
22:07my father shouted darkly,
22:09What do you want?
22:11This is Angelic Clan business.
22:13None of your concern.
22:14At that moment,
22:15blazing golden light
22:16burst above the seal.
22:18At that moment,
22:19blazing golden light
22:20burst above the seal.
22:24A low,
22:25resonant hum
22:26cut through space and time,
22:27and an ancient round mirror
22:29hovered in the sky.
22:30The time-viewing crystal
22:32I had brought into the seal
22:34had finally absorbed
22:35Sophia's remaining flesh and blood,
22:38unraveling the past,
22:39revealing the truth.
22:40Light and color
22:40rewinded rapidly in the mirror
22:42until the scene froze,
22:43clear and steady.
22:49Lilith,
22:50I know everything.
22:52Sophia's voice rang out.
22:53Your father colluded
22:54with the Devil Clan,
22:55plunging the three realms
22:56into chaos and death.
22:58Silence fell over
22:59the entire world.
23:01Everyone stared in shock
23:03at the mirror's vision.
23:05It was the night
23:05before the prayer ceremony,
23:07one year prior.
23:08Sophia's face burned with fury
23:10as she pointed at Lilith.
23:11No wonder General Blackwood
23:13was distracted during the war.
23:15He never wanted us to win.
23:17Do you know how many
23:18died in that battle?
23:20We tolerated you
23:22pretending to be our savior,
23:23but your father
23:25colluded with devils?
23:26A criminal of the three realms,
23:28yet you wear the mask
23:29of a hero
23:30and worshipped by all.
23:31The Blackwood family
23:32has no shame.
23:34Lilith in the mirror
23:35smiled sweetly,
23:36but cruelty glinted
23:38in her eyes.
23:38I underestimated you.
23:41I give you two choices.
23:43Confess your father's crimes
23:45to everyone,
23:45or I will expose everything
23:47at the prayer ceremony tomorrow.
23:51I choose neither.
23:53Guess whether your father
23:54and mother already know.
23:56Guess whether your father
23:57and mother already know.
23:59The crowd outside the seal
24:00stared in shock
24:01at my parents.
24:05I'll give you
24:06two choices instead.
24:08She patted Sophia's cheek
24:10temptu-intemptu-lessly
24:12and stabbed a dagger
24:13into her chest.
24:15Your husband Lucian
24:17has been poisoned by me.
24:19Step willingly
24:20into the devil's seal.
24:21I'll cure him.
24:23You care so much
24:24for the people.
24:25Well,
24:26the devils need sealing.
24:28A noble angelic princess
24:29like you
24:30is far more useful
24:31than mere prayers.
24:32Go.
24:33Save your husband.
24:35Seal the devils.
24:36Save the world.
24:37Or your parents
24:38will die, too.
24:39The strange dagger
24:40pinned Sophia in place,
24:42unable to move.
24:43Lilith dragged her
24:44to the seal
24:45and pushed her inside.
24:48Such precious angelic bones.
24:50What a waste
24:51not to use them.
24:53The prayer ceremony
24:54where everyone
24:55condemned Sophia
24:56for deserting her post.
24:58My father was a hero
24:59and I, too,
25:00will sacrifice
25:01my flesh and blood
25:02to seal the devils.
25:06But when she cut her flesh
25:08and tossed the blood
25:09into the seal,
25:11Sophia inside
25:11exploded into flesh
25:13and blood
25:14sealing the devils.
25:23Outside the seal,
25:24the crowd cheered,
25:25kneeling to thank Lilith
25:26for her sacrifice
25:27while a look of triumph
25:29flashed across her face,
25:31gone in an instant.
25:35I'll kill you!
25:44I was blind!
25:47I believed your lies
25:48and hurt Sophia
25:49all these years!
25:51You used my life
25:52to threaten her
25:53and kill her!
25:54He screamed and wept,
25:55despair and regret
25:57crushing him.
25:58It was my fault.
26:00She died for me.
26:01Sophia was always righteous,
26:03loved me deeply.
26:04I was a fool
26:05to doubt her!
26:06Calm down.
26:08Even if she's guilty,
26:09the Archangel Emperor
26:10must judge her.
26:11You have no right
26:12to kill her.
26:14Archangel Emperor?
26:15Didn't you hear?
26:16He knew the Blackwood
26:18family lied
26:19from the start.
26:20He deceived everyone!
26:21He gasped for breath,
26:23chest heaving.
26:24You were all blinded
26:25by her!
26:26I saw how you favored
26:28Limith and tormented
26:29Elara.
26:30I did the same
26:30to Sophia!
26:32Alexander,
26:33now you know
26:33she's a vile monster.
26:35Will you still
26:35protect her?
26:36It's different.
26:38Elara wasn't killed
26:39by Lilith.
26:40Lucian ignored him
26:41and slammed his palm
26:43into Lilith's chest.
26:44She flew backward,
26:46crashing into
26:47the time-viewing's crystal
26:48and spit a mouthful
26:50of blood.
26:50Husband,
26:53save me.
26:56Alexander stared
26:57at her pitiful face,
26:58ready to move.
27:01When the mirror flickered
27:02and shifted again,
27:03they created us.
27:05How could our heroic
27:05Blackwood family
27:06produce a traitor
27:07who colloos with devils?
27:08You've killed so many,
27:09how can I face the world?
27:11Commoners are worthless.
27:13Their deaths mean nothing.
27:15When the devil lord
27:16succeeds,
27:18I'll be the devil queen.
27:20Who dares judge me?
27:23It wasn't your father
27:24who colluded with devils,
27:25it was you!
27:27I always thought
27:28you were innocent,
27:29hurt by your father's crimes,
27:31and I pitied you,
27:32favored you.
27:33No wonder your father
27:34confessed to colluding
27:35with devils.
27:36He was covering for you!
27:38General Blackwell
27:39had sent a secret letter
27:40to my father
27:41before his death,
27:42admitting his own
27:43supposed crimes,
27:44and begging the
27:45Archangel Emperor
27:46to spare his daughter.
27:51Lilith is kind and pure.
27:53She could never
27:54collusion with devils.
27:55There must be a mistake!
27:57Impossible!
27:58Your Highness,
27:58wake up!
27:59Look how she killed!
28:00She called commoners worthless,
28:02bragged about becoming
28:03devil queen,
28:03and aiding the devil lord.
28:04My father and brother
28:05died in that war!
28:06I'll kill this monster!
28:08Me too!
28:08My family perished!
28:09Count me in!
28:10I'm a commoner,
28:11worthless as they say!
28:12I'll die with her!
28:13And the Archangel Emperor
28:15and Empress
28:16hiding the truth,
28:17conspying with this witch!
28:19It was my fault.
28:21My father was pinned
28:22to the ground,
28:23tears streaming down his face.
28:24A general colluded
28:25with devils under my rule,
28:27and I feared
28:27being called incompetent.
28:29I didn't want the scandal,
28:30so I hid the truth.
28:31I never thought
28:31a small lie
28:32would lead to all this.
28:33My mother clutched
28:34her chest,
28:34sobbing hysterically.
28:36My two daughters,
28:37both dead!
28:38I was weak!
28:39My eldest daughter
28:40was murdered,
28:41and I didn't seek
28:42the truth.
28:43I lied and cursed her,
28:44and forced my youngest
28:45to die to avenge her.
28:46It's all your fault!
28:48She lunged at the
28:49beaten Lilith
28:49and bit off her ear.
28:51What did we ever do to you?
28:53Your father confessed.
28:55We took you in,
28:56loved you.
28:56What more did you want?
28:58Why did you hurt my girl?
28:59If you hadn't targeted them,
29:01Sophia would never
29:02have investigated you,
29:03and she might still be alive.
29:05Lilith,
29:07why did you collude
29:08with devils?
29:10As long as the real
29:11daughters live,
29:12the adopted one
29:13can never rise.
29:14I, Lilith,
29:15am no less than them.
29:17Why were they born
29:18princesses,
29:19married to such
29:19powerful men?
29:20So what if I colluded
29:22with devils?
29:22They promised me
29:23the throne of devil queen.
29:25I don't care
29:26how many die.
29:27As long as I win,
29:29nothing else matters!
29:31My father was a fool,
29:33but I'm different.
29:35Then I found
29:36a better way.
29:37Remove Alara and Sophia,
29:39and the angelic realm
29:41will be mine.
29:42The dragon clan too.
29:44The dragon clan too.
29:46Alara was smart enough
29:48to die on her own.
29:49I would have killed
29:50her anyway.
29:53Her laughter was drowned
29:55out by the mob's attacks.
29:56My parents were stripped
29:57of their thrones
29:58and imprisoned in purgatory.
29:59They had abandoned
30:00their daughters for power,
30:01only to lose everything
30:02in the end.
30:03Day after day,
30:04they toiled in purgatory,
30:06paying for their sins.
30:07Lucian melt outside
30:09the devil's seal every day,
30:10repenting,
30:11drinking himself
30:12into a flazzer,
30:13crying Sophia's name
30:14with a wine bottle
30:15in his arms.
30:17Sophia!
30:17This is all Elidra left me.
30:19It holds our oath.
30:20If I can fix it,
30:22she loved me so deeply,
30:23she'll forgive me.
30:24Alexander blinded by lust,
30:25was stripped of his title
30:26as dragon crown prince,
30:27but he seemed not to care.
30:28He spent every day
30:29holding shards
30:30of the engagement ring,
30:31trying to glue them
30:32back together.
30:34Turn it off.
30:48After returning
30:50to the celestial kingdom,
30:51I finally saw Sophia again.
30:54Ancient angels
30:55dwelled in the celestial kingdom,
30:56seemingly lofty
30:57and untouchable,
30:58yet bound by the
30:59invisible laws of heaven.
31:01Our path of cultivation
31:02was tangled with heavy karma.
31:04Descending to the man-lamb
31:05to undergo trials,
31:06living among humans,
31:07could purify our angel hearts.
31:09Devils ran parampus
31:10in this world,
31:11so we chose to descend.
31:13Not only to undergo trials,
31:14but also to seal the devils.
31:17A perfect plan.
31:18We had thought it simple,
31:19back then.
31:20Though most of our angelic power
31:22would be sealed in the mortal realm,
31:24if we lived peaceful lives there,
31:27when our trials ended
31:28and we died of natural causes,
31:30our remaining angelic power
31:32would be enough
31:33to seal the devils forever.
31:36But no one could have foreseen.
31:38You don't have to grieve.
31:40I've let it all go.
31:41Sophia patted my hand.
31:43We've survived life and death trials,
31:45witnessed pure good and evil,
31:46but this time,
31:47it was a love trial.
31:49Being an angel for so long,
31:51I forgot how twisted
31:51and flihume nature can be.
31:54Failing this trial
31:55is a blessing in disguise.
31:56We could not linger.
31:57Having failed our love trial,
31:59a new one would come soon.
32:00It is a blessing.
32:02We both sacrificed ourselves
32:04to seal the devils,
32:05and heaven has recognized our virtue.
32:08We failed this trial of family and love,
32:11but we've been rewarded.
32:13Our next love trial
32:14will be happy and peaceful.
32:16Heaven was always fair.
32:18Furthermore,
32:19everyone who hurt us,
32:20our mortal parents,
32:22Lucian Alexander,
32:23will be punished by heaven
32:24for the rest of their lives.
32:26They will suffer in life
32:28and be cast into the deepest hell
32:30after death.
32:30They would fall into eternal torment.
32:33A hundred years passed
32:35in the blink of an eye.
32:38Our next love trial was perfect.
32:40Sophia and I both had loving husbands
32:42and devoted parents,
32:44living happy, peaceful lives.
32:47When we returned
32:47to the celestial kingdom once more,
32:50our angelic power
32:51had grown even stronger.
32:53Come.
32:54It's time to cut all remaining karma.
32:58We returned to the mortal realm
33:00once more.
33:01The devils in the devil's seal
33:03lay dormant,
33:04and the sight outside
33:06took our breath away.
33:07The seal was covered
33:08in fresh flowers and offerings
33:10left by grateful mortals
33:12over the past century.
33:14The blooms were vibrant,
33:16the food fresh,
33:17clearly replaced often.
33:19Nearby stood several
33:20simple,
33:21thapped huts.
33:23Lucien and Alexander
33:24lived there,
33:25staring blankly
33:25at the marble statues
33:26in the seal.
33:28The two women
33:29stood before the seal,
33:31their eyes sweeping
33:32over the thapped huts
33:33and the flowers.
33:34They spotted us
33:35the moment we appeared.
33:36Alara!
33:37Alara, you finally returned.
33:38I knew if I fixed the ring,
33:40you'd come back.
33:41Sophia,
33:43you've come to see me,
33:44which means you've
33:45forgiven me, right?
33:46Their shouts roused
33:47the others in the huts.
33:48The door creaked open,
33:49and my aged,
33:51freel parents stumbled out.
33:52My daughters have returned.
33:56Mother knew you'd
33:57always come back to see us.
33:59We came to sever all ties
34:00with this mortal life.
34:01When two archangels
34:02descended to you,
34:03you could have gained divinity
34:04and ascended
34:05if we'd succeeded in our trials,
34:06but you destroyed everything.
34:08The marble statues
34:08had sat in the seal
34:09for a century,
34:10cold and unyielding.
34:11It's time to take back everything.
34:13The devils are sealed,
34:14and the divine protection
34:15for this world is over.
34:16The statues turned
34:17to glowing light in our hands,
34:18fading into the sky.
34:19At the same time,
34:20the ground beneath
34:21their feet vanished,
34:22and the bitter winds
34:23of hell swept over them.
34:24Good deeds bring virtue.
34:26Evil deeds bring sin,
34:27all judged by heaven's law.
34:29Sophia and I took
34:29one last look
34:30at this mortal world,
34:31then turned and left.
34:32In the celestial kingdom
34:33atop the sea of clouds,
34:34our trials complete,
34:36our hearts pure.
34:37We walked barefoot
34:37on starlight and mist,
34:39listening to the whispers
34:40of countless mortal realms,
34:41all living things warm
34:42and bright,
34:43clear and peaceful at last.
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