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00:00Mi mentor gives the blonde girl the best egg in the hall, he tosses me the one no one wanted,
00:05I am last in the rankings, refusal is never an option, for 7 years, I fed it everything I had,
00:11my magic, my sleep, my youth, no one helped, no one noticed, when the shell finally cracks to reveal the
00:18air of Yormonkar, the rarest bloodline in a millennium, suddenly, everyone wants a piece of what I've made, the blonde
00:24girl claims him, my mentor backs her up, three seniors corner me, forcing me to give him up,
00:29and my lindworm, he just stands there, saying nothing, Aurelia is the only one worthy of me, let me go,
00:34I gave you life, I could take it back, so I drive a blade through his heart, devour his core
00:39and become stronger than all of them combined, 7 years ago, the hatching hall, on the altar lay 20 familiar
00:46eggs, each radiating a different light, Aurelia walked to the center and picked up an egg glowing with golden flames,
00:52this egg is calling my name mentor, she said with a smile, she never once looked at me, the last
00:57egg lay alone in the corner,
00:58Dull, grey white, without a trace of light, Archmaster Maldus gave me a side lay glance, Vesper you are patient,
01:04you can bear this stillness, this one is yours, I cradled it in my hands, heavy, ice cold, it took
01:10me 7 years, I slept with it against my skin every single night, fed it my magic, thread by thread,
01:15I turned down every field trial, missed 3 ascension rites and 4 tower galas, I read every lindworm hatching record
01:22in the grand library, I learned to scrape the absolute bottom of my magical core when utterly exhausted,
01:267 years later, the shell cracked, a boy with silver hair and amber eyes stepped out, he opened his eyes,
01:33and I was the first thing he saw, after that, he never chose to see me again, he became Aurelia's
01:38shadow, she practiced the sword, he played the harp by her side, she frowned, the smiled, he bent over backward
01:44to make her gentleman, all she had to say was such a gentleman, and from that moment on, I became
01:49an obstacle in his way, today 3 senior apprentice block my path, Lysander stands next to them, he says it
01:54to my face,
01:55Lysander is brilliant, she's beautiful and kind, she is the only one worthy to be my mate, Vester if you
02:00actually care about me, break the bond,
02:02the 3 seniors turn to stare, they are not here to mediate, they are here to witness my humiliation, Cedric
02:08speaks first, talking down to me from on high,
02:10Vester, Lysander is the direct heir of Jormagard, there isn't another bloodline like his in the entire northern frontier, face
02:15reality, dragging this out only makes you a laughing stock, you two were never a match,
02:19Orlando chimes in a soft voice, it's not your fault, it's a matter of bloodline, if you truly love him,
02:25set him free, it would be best for everyone,
02:28Gabriel cuts to the chase, the heir of Jormangel is destined for the highest nobility, and Auraria is a daughter
02:34of the phoenix, it's fate, the whole tower is dying to celebrate their bond ceremony, standing in their way just
02:40disgraces you,
02:41word after word, sentence after sentence, then they just wait in Lysander, waiting for my tears, he turns his head,
02:48won't even meet my eyes, he agrees with every single word,
02:517 years, I bled my magic into him, drop by drop, I turned a cold, dead stone into a living,
02:58breathing man, and now they demand I hand him over, if he will not keep faith, then he forfeits the
03:03right to exist,
03:04the meteoric iron dagger sinks into Lysander's chest, I drive it beneath the breast bone, straight into his Lindwarf core
03:09crystal, the one place no hand had reached in 7 years,
03:12those amber eyes, always so arrogant, widen in shock and pain,
03:15Vesper, you, what did you, he stares at me, and really stares, as if the wound had finally taught him
03:21where to look, I steady my grip, twisting the blade deeper, the meteorite edge crushes his core into dust, not
03:27a chance of survival,
03:28Archmage Malduz mentioned it in a lecture once, the nine lives of a Lindworm, just a myth, but the core,
03:34that's their fatal weakness, at last, one of Malduz's lessons proves useful,
03:39why wouldn't I, what I gave shape to, I can also destroy, if I want you dead, then you die,
03:45blood runs down the hilt, covers my fingers, Lysander tries to speak, he only chokes on blood, the light leaves
03:52his eyes, his body hits the floor, he shifts back to his true form, a massive silver white serpent,
03:57its scales go dull at once, stripped of all their glory, it coils across the floor, taking up half the
04:03room, I don't blink, I watch until he stops twitching, I rip the dagger out, walk to the center of
04:09the room, drop to my knees, I start carving into the floor, deep in the tower's restricted vault lies a
04:14book, the chronicle of primal blood rites, I copied a page from it in secret and hid it in my
04:19room, studying it in silence for 7 years,
04:21the devourer's gift, a 3000 year old taboo, no tools required, no setup needed, just one caster, and one formidable
04:30sacrifice, I finish the last rune, I slice my fingertip open, let the blood drip into the center, I drag
04:36Lysander's corpse into the circle, my blood spreads out, it lights up every carved line, the whole array blazes with
04:42dark hole light, I've never seen a color like it, but every vein in my body hums, Lysander's serpent form
04:47lights up,
04:48first the scales, then the muscles, finally the bones, everything breaks down, bit by bit, it melts into threads of
04:56dark gold energy, ripped straight from his corpse, flowing right into me, the threads sink through my skin, hook into
05:02my bloodstream, the moment the first thread enters, something explodes in my head, a memory that isn't mine, locked deep
05:09in my soul since the day I was born, it cracks wide open, I see a creature, it eats stars,
05:15swallows light, devours the laws of reality,
05:17it has existed since the beginning of the world, the first predator, the primal devourer, I always thought I was
05:24worthless, my magic was pathetically weak, ever since I entered the tower at 12, I ranked at the bottom, I
05:30thought I was born broken, but now I realize I was wrong, basic magic is useless to me, everything the
05:36tower taught me is worthless, something in me had lain dormant since birth, seal behind an appetite no ordinary magic
05:42could feed,
05:42Lysander, the heir of Jormungandr, the only sacrifice to break the seal in 3000 years, I smile, so that is
05:50the truth, Lysander's body vanishes completely, every drop of his energy floods my veins, the shackles that bound my magic
05:57for 7 years collapse, one by one, when the last of the dark gold vanishes into me, I rise with
06:02an archmage power in my bones, all that's left is a dried ritual ray and a pool of blood, not
06:07a single trace of Lysander,
06:08like he never existed at all, I rise to my feet and roll my wrist, my joints crack, the door
06:14bangs open, Maldris stands in the doorway, Arolia cowers behind him, eyes red and body shaking, she clutches her golden
06:21phoenix, the three seniors flank them, faces pale with terror,
06:25how could you, you killed him and then you devoured him, she breaks down sobbing, Maldris unleashes his full archmaster
06:33era across the room, Vesper, what you did in this room defiles the tower, yet you also performed a forbidden
06:40ritual, by my authority you are cast out and remounded to the abyss, his power crashes down on me, 7
06:47years ago, this would have crushed me, but now, I'm an archmage, I hold the power of the primal devourer,
06:53I straighten and meet his gaze,
06:55killing my bonded creature, mentor Lysander wasn't a human, he was a familiar, I hatched him from a shell 7
07:01years ago, Tower Code, Volume 7, Chapter 3, Section 11, a familiar's life belongs to its hatcher, your language, not
07:08mine,
07:09Maldris chokes on his own words, Arolia suddenly cuts in, tears already gathering as if on command, her voice trembles
07:16with practiced grief,
07:17even if he was just a familiar, you were together for 7 years, do you feel nothing, he was the
07:23heir of Jormagon, that bloodline was irreplaceable, and you just destroyed it,
07:28irreplaceable or not, he was mine, he wanted to go with someone else, so I killed him, I glare at
07:33her, you care an awful lot about what belongs to other people,
07:37do other people's belongings always catch your eye, Arolia goes white, the phoenix in her arm struggles, she grips it
07:43tighter, the bird pecks at her wrist,
07:46how dare you, Maldus snaps, he knows I have him cornered on the rules, but Arolia's tears matter more than
07:52his own laws, he cannot accuse me of murdering a familiar, so he pivots,
07:56fine, the familiar was yours, but your mindset is dangerous, you performed a forbidden ritual, you have shown open malice
08:02towards Arolia,
08:03someone like you is a threat to this tower, I sentence you to 3 years in the abyss,
08:08the three seniors actually flinch, the abyss, the deepest forbidden zone beneath the tower, toxic magic, poisoned air, feral beasts,
08:18most apprentices don't last 3 weeks down there, so that is a sentence, death, draped in formal language,
08:23a flash of satisfaction crosses Arolia's eyes, then she fakes a worried look, mentor, surely there is
08:30another punishment, the abyss will kill her, please, not that, her mouth says the words, her feet don't
08:36move an inch, my word is final, take her away, the tower guards step forward, I will walk on my
08:44own,
08:44I head for the entrance, passing Arolia, I stop, I lean in and drop my voice to a whisper just
08:50for her,
08:50hold that bird close, I may decide I'm hungry,
08:55Arolia freezes, she hugs her bird tighter, pure terror in her eyes, I walk to the edge of the abyss,
09:02black mist rolls up from the dark below, I jump in, and let the abyss swallow me whole,
09:07I hit the bottom of the abyss, blood, rot, the stench from hundreds of feral beasts,
09:12old bones under my boots, green eyes flashing in the shadows, growls echoing from every direction,
09:18the primal devourer in my veins wakes up instantly, it feels no fear, only hunger,
09:24a forbidden zone, looks more like a grand feast, I crack a smile, a spike armored boar charges first,
09:30bone plates hard as steel, tusk's meant to shred metal, I don't even use magic,
09:35I sidestep, drive my bare fist into its ribs, crack, the boar slams into the rock wall,
09:41bone gives way, it dies instantly, the devourer doesn't just give me magic,
09:45it remakes my body, I press my palm to the boar's chest,
09:49dark gold threads rip from its corpse into me, core, bloodline, energy, I take it all,
09:54the corpse crumbles into an empty husk, not a bad start,
09:57over the next few days, I hunt my way through the abyss,
10:01shadow panthers give me speed, rock shell lizards leave toughness in my bones,
10:05toxic bog toads try their poison on me, and my blood devours that too,
10:08the magical concentration is higher than I expected,
10:11I stalk through the abyss like an apex predator, grating my prey, everything in my path runs for
10:16its life, my power surges to archmage, level 2, every day, I grow stronger, I just killed a two-headed
10:22wind serpent, as I reach for its core, I sense movement above, I hide my aura, melt into the
10:28shadows, up on a rock ledge, Maldus, Aurelia, and the three seniors, standing inside Maldus's
10:34protective ward, without it, the toxic air would destroy their lungs in minutes,
10:38Aurelia hugs her golden phoenix, her dress somehow still spotless,
10:42she holds a silk handkerchief to her nose, staring down into the dark,
10:46Mentor, the dark magic down here is dreadful, do you think she's even alive, I'm worried for her,
10:51she's resilient, she'll survive, a little suffering might finally teach her her place,
10:58Aurelia strokes her bird's feathers,
11:00that's a relief, it is still such a tragedy that his bloodline was lost,
11:05if he were still here, my phoenix could have joined with him, their cores would have resonated
11:09beautifully, the phoenix lets out a sharp cry, backing up its master,
11:13don't waste tears on him, Aurelia, Lysandar was rare, yes, but your phoenix is pure blood,
11:18its future reaches even higher, exactly, Vesper is selfish and cruel, she killed Lysandar,
11:23what a loss to the whole tower, you have a heart of gold, stop wasting your pity on her,
11:28Aurelia nods softly, then, she raises her voice,
11:32I just think, maybe she's broken down, lost her way, if she just came out and apologized,
11:38Lysandar is gone, but Mentor is generous, he'd give her a second chance, she doesn't have to suffer
11:43here, from the shadows, I listen and wait, the phoenix breaks free from Aladia's arms,
11:48it spreads its wings and dives for my dead serpent, pure arrogance in its eyes,
11:52it thinks the kill is unclaimed, a glowing golden light trails from its claws as it swoops down,
11:57so it comes down after all, before its talons hit the serpent, I burst out of the shadows,
12:02the phoenix senses danger, tries to pull away, too late, my right hand snaps around its throat,
12:08its screech cuts off, it thrashes wildly, golden fire erupts from its feathers,
12:13trying to melt my arm to the bone, but a pulse of dark gold energy instantly snuffs out the fire,
12:17what are you doing, let him go, let him go, Vester, don't you dare,
12:23I slowly tighten my grip, I look up at their faces, everyone is frozen solid,
12:30your bird came to steal my kill, why shouldn't I take it, snap, its neck cracks cleanly under my
12:36grip, the phoenix goes limp, the light in its eyes dies, the golden glow fades,
12:41I toss it in the dirt, Aurelia's scream rips through the abyss, her face turns white,
12:46her knees buckle, Cedric barely catches her before she falls to the ground,
12:50my phoenix, you really killed him, tears spill over, her finger points at me,
12:55no sweetness now, only hatred, he was my destined mate, how dare you, how dare you,
13:01mentor, she killed Lysaner, and now she killed my phoenix,
13:05Aurelia throws herself at Maldus' feet, Maldus' face shifts from cold indifference to murderous
13:10fury, that phoenix was a pureblood, handpicked for Aurelia, raised on the tower's premium resources,
13:16years of investment, worth far more than Lysaner had ever been, the cornerstone of his
13:21entire master plan for Aurelia, and the student he cast into the abyss to die, has just snapped
13:25its neck as if it were nothing, his archmaced aura explodes, his magic pours out, a giant hand
13:30made of raw arcower hangs above me, it slams down, he is trying to kill me, I will grind your
13:35soul
13:36into ash, the hand hasn't even touched me yet, the pressure already cracks my bones, the primal
13:41devourer roars awake, I dig my heels in to hold my ground, I look up at him, grind my soul,
13:47for a
13:47phoenix, mentor am I not your student toos, seven years of questions boiling over, something flickers
13:52across his face, it vanishes, buried by absolute rage, shut up, you murdered your bonded beast,
13:57you slaughtered your sister's familiar, and now you play the victim, she wanted Lysaner,
14:02you forced me to give him up, her bird swoops in to steal my kill, and now you want me
14:06dead,
14:07since the day I walked into this tower at 12 years old, she had the best of everything,
14:10every mistake, every unfairness was mine to bear, because she's more talented, because
14:14her tears matter more, because she's the chosen one in your eyes, then what am I, you pulled
14:18me out of an orphanage, was this the plan all along, was I just a stepping stone, was I always
14:22supposed to die the second she needed me to, answer me mentor, dead silence, the three
14:27seniors don't say a word, everyone knows, it's an open secret, but no one ever ripped
14:32it open and forced them to face it, Aurelia stops sobbing, her eyes dart around, showing
14:37the fear of being exposed, Muldrus's face twists, my words strike a nerve he refuses
14:42to face, taking me from the orphanage might have started as real pity, but year after
14:45year, beside Elyria's talent and fortune my mediocre gifts lost all value to him, my worth
14:49had been decided long ago, whatever served Elyria best, and now, the tool in his hand has turned
14:54on him, silver tongue, twisted fact, his tone is hard, merciless, he tries to cover the wound
15:00I have carved into his pride, what you have done is beyond forgiveness, the last shred
15:04of loyalty I had for this place, it burns out completely, then as of today I owe neither
15:08you nor this tower anything, we are done, done you think a lowest rank apprentice gets to
15:12decide when this ends, this abyss is your grave, the magic hand glows brighter, the power spikes,
15:17enough to level the entire bottom of the abyss, the shock wave alone cracks the ground under
15:21my boots into a spider web, I can't take this hit head on, my eyes lock on the phoenix corpse,
15:25broken neck, fainted gold, the primal devourer roars with hunger, this pure blood core is
15:30stronger than Lysiater's, no time for a full ritual, I grab the bird and shove it against my chest,
15:35dark gold threads rip out of the corpse, they flood straight into me, pure phoenix essence
15:39explodes in my body, every vein burns, my power surges, archmaster level 3, level 4, peak, 3 leaps,
15:463 heartbeats, Maldus's magic hand is still dropping, I lift my head, I point a single finger,
15:51dark gold energy pools at the tip, it isn't magic, it's the devourer's source, older,
15:56stronger than everything, I flick my finger, Maldus's peak archmist attack shatters like
16:01glass breaking from within, soundless, everything fades into a thousand specks of light glistening
16:05across the abyss, the abyss falls silent, five faces staring down at me, I'll never forget their
16:11expressions, it's the look people wear when their world shatters before their eyes, I don't hesitate,
16:16I launch myself from the bottom onto the ledge, Cedric, a blast of dark gold energy slams them into the
16:21rock wall, they go limp before they hit the ground, Aurelia crashes to the dirt, paralyzed by fear,
16:26Maldus the man who just tried to kill me is frozen, his eyes are wide with disbelief,
16:30I walk up to him a full head shorter, he takes a step back, mentor do you remember what you
16:34told
16:34the orphanage mate from the day you brought me here, Aurelia was next to me, three years older,
16:39you adopted her from a top tier noble family the year before, you said she had the phoenix mark,
16:44a once in a century prodigy, seven years, I woke up two hours early every day to study,
16:49she slept in, I stayed up four hours late every night to research, she went to galas,
16:53in every magical trial I placed at the absolute leg top, you said she never even sat for an
16:57it's been seven years hatching and you tossing like rubbish, I hatched into the air of Yorma Mungahar,
17:00and today, today you tried to kill me for her phoenix, Maldus's lips tremble,
17:04Vesta, I, I press my hand against his chest, your turn, the devourer wakes up, not death,
17:11an archmage does not fear death, this is worse, total erration, his magic, everything that makes
17:17him an archmaster, pulled out, thread by thread, turned into dark gold energy, drawn into my veins,
17:23I do not devour him completely, I let him live, I strip him of everything, magic, affinity, rank,
17:30I leave him breathing, for a man like Maldus, life without magic is worse than death,
17:35I pull my hand back, he collapses, his hair turns white, deep wrinkles carve into his face,
17:40his eyes go dim, he looks up at me, I look down at him, tell me Maldus, who betrayed who,
17:46Aurelia is still on the ground, too terrified to make a sound, I pick up the phoenix corpse,
17:50most of its energy is gone, even dead, its flesh and bones still have value,
17:54the three knocked out seniors, not worth my time, and then there's Mardus, a few bounds up the abbess
17:58walls, I grab the bird by the wing and leap upward, and I land dead center in the tower's main
18:02plaza,
18:03the senior mentors and apprentices are crowded together, panicking over the power spakes from below,
18:07was that archmaster energy, what happened, it came from the abbess, do we have an intruder,
18:10if the archmist is handling it himself, we should be fine, I drop from the air,
18:14holding a dead bird in one hand, pouring out massive dark power without restraint,
18:18is that Vesper, she got out of the abbess, is that the phoenix, that power, peak archmaster,
18:25no way, she's only been down there a few days, Vesper, what are you doing here, that phoenix,
18:30what did you do to Aurelia, where is the archmaester, I toss the bird on the cobblestones,
18:36and sweep my gaze across the plaza, every apprentice flinches when I look at them,
18:40the archmaster, you mean the man who abandoned me to that place, he tried to kill me, I pause,
18:47so I took everything from him, impossible, lies, how dare you slander the archmaster,
18:53Tivadar and the other mentors flare their magic, getting ready to take me down, don't believe me,
18:57go look, he's on the edge of the abbess, if you hurry you might just save his life,
19:02they feel my power, that cannot be faked, as for the rest of you, I glare at the mentors,
19:07especially fixed on Tivadar, you all agreed to throw me into that abyss, I move, fast as lightning,
19:12three strikes land before anyone can react, the shields of Tivadar and the other two mentors,
19:16who approved my sentence, shatter, piece by piece, one by one, they collapse onto the ground,
19:20out cold, silence, even the senior mentors don't have time to lift a finger, as of today,
19:24the tower of ashes belongs to me, if any among you object, step forward, no one, no one bows,
19:31but the first one drops his head, then the second, the third, one after another, every one of them
19:38lowers their head, two guards drag Aurelia into the plaza, her pristine image is ruined, her dress
19:44is torn to shreds, covered in dirt and blood, she drops to her knees, no fake tears this time,
19:50please, I was wrong, just leave me alive, her voice cracks, she crawls towards me,
19:56reaches for my robes, I give her one look, she freezes, it was me, I was jealous, I only wanted
20:04Lisemir for his bloodline, I shouldn't have let my phoenix go after you, she chokes on her sobs,
20:09stuttering, please, we studied together for seven years, just spare me, I'll do anything, I'll leave
20:14the tower, I'll give up the title, daughter of the phoenix, Aurelia, I cut her off, and crouch down,
20:19so we are eye to eye, do you remember what you said to me three years ago, she goes blank,
20:24I was hatching Lisender, three months with no sleep, my magic was so drained, I almost fell
20:29down the stairs, you grabbed my arm and comforted me, you said, don't push yourself too hard,
20:34when you're familiar hatches, he'll take care of you, did you mean any away vit, she can't answer,
20:38I stand up, looking at the unconscious seniors and mentors, you told me to do the decent thing and let
20:43go, did any of you hear what you were saying, Lisander was mine, seven years,
20:48I raised him from an egg, little by little, and you just expected me to hand him over,
20:51did anyone ask whether I was Willy, I did old man, you kept Muldris preaching about Avodia,
20:56the daughter of the phoenix, the tower's golden hope, everyone had to protect her, did you forget,
21:00at 12, my control scores exceeded hers by 12%, at 14, I undertook my first solo mission,
21:05I nearly died bringing back a toxic Magrosa from the Blackwood Ridge, you said adequate,
21:10then you spent 20 minutes praising Alaria for picking a lavender in the garden,
21:14at 16, I volunteered for a beast hunt on the Ebis Rim, you said our radio was a better candidate,
21:19she backed out, said she had a headache, the hunt got cancelled, you never brought my name up again,
21:25those jerks his head up, his cloudy eyes are blank, he has absolutely nothing to say,
21:30I stare at his blank face, the last trace of pity in my chest dies, you all forgot,
21:35I didn't choose to be like this, you made me this way, your favoritessness taught me that resources must be
21:40taken, your sentence taught me that stepping back means getting crushed, your attempt on my life
21:45taught me that weakness is a sin, if you hadn't squeezed every drop of humanity out of me, if you
21:50hadn't thrown me in the Abyss to die, I'd still be the quiet little Vesper, keeping her head down,
21:55begging for fair treatment, you created the monster standing in front of you, utter silence,
22:00just Alaria's muffled sobs, the crowd is barely breathing, they understand now, I wasn't born cold,
22:06they made me this way, their bias indifference and cruelty, strike by stroke they forged me,
22:12I square my shoulders and turn away, not looking at their faces, you admitted your sins, now it's
22:17time to pay, Aurelia, she looks up, your apprentice status is revoked, your magic is sealed, just
22:22enough to keep you alive, you will live at the bottom of the Abyss, where your terror will draw
22:26out the lesser beasts, to serve as target practice for the apprentice, you will live, that much, I will
22:31guarantee, but you're going to spend the rest of your life in the Abyss where you tried to bury me,
22:36all the color drains from her face, she knows exactly what that means, she opens her mouth
22:41to beg, I don't give her the chance, Maldus, for the sake of the one useful thing he taught me,
22:46volume 7, chapter 3, section 11, he gets to stay in the tower, stripped of all privileges,
22:52reduced to the lowest servant in the tower, a former archmist, scrubbing floors and handing out rations,
22:57the rest of you keep your lives, for now, but this tower will never drag anyone down again,
23:02starting tomorrow, advancement will be earned under my rule alone, fewer rewards, harder trials,
23:08no exceptions, all resources go through me, I walk toward the main spire, I don't look back,
23:14only one thought remains, what I will hunt next.
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