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00:00Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!
00:03My name is Leia.
00:0424 hours ago, I was New York's top forensic pathologist,
00:08calmly cutting open the chest of a powerful man.
00:11Now I'm bound with rough ropes to the cursed execution platform,
00:15my feet surrounded by grease-soaked firewood.
00:18The witch! You're in fire!
00:20Those eyes of yours that can see spirits are the mark of Satan!
00:25But I don't struggle. I'm just waiting.
00:27Behind these fanatical rioters stands an army they cannot see.
00:32Hundreds upon thousands of resentful ghosts.
00:39Since you wish to do God's will,
00:42why don't you first ask the seasoned if she approves?
00:45The air reeks of cheap grease and pine.
00:48Lilla, those cursed purple eyes of yours can see Satan's illusions!
00:53Only fire can cleanse your sins!
00:55My name is Leia, not Leela.
00:59As the top forensic pathologist of the 21st century,
01:02I have dissected thousands of corpses and heard countless last words from the dead.
01:08I transmigrated to this backward medieval era,
01:11becoming Lila, the illegitimate daughter of a noble count,
01:15branded a cursed star for her purple eyes,
01:18pushed to death by her own father.
01:21I found my eyes had mutated.
01:23I can not only discern wounds clearly,
01:26I can also see the lingering victims who haven't yet departed.
01:31Valerie, are you sure you want to light the fire?
01:34Silence! The witch is casting a curse!
01:36A curse?
01:37Sister Cecile is right behind you, Archbishop.
01:39She's wearing an emerald silk dress,
01:41but her throat is charred black,
01:42marked from concentrated strong alkali corrosion.
01:44Didn't she keep grabbing your left hand when you made her drink that cup of holy water?
01:49Silence! The witch is casting a curse!
01:54Archbishop, does your left hand still hurt?
01:58You're lying! Start the fire! Now!
02:02Why so nervous?
02:03I sweep my gaze over the unsettled believers in the square.
02:06Do you want to know where the saint's heart is?
02:10It never went to heaven.
02:12No one breathes.
02:13It's hidden behind the secret door inside the confessional at the Archbishop's residence.
02:17I can see the empty cavity in Cecile's chest as clearly as if I had opened it myself.
02:24He cut out her heart simply because he believed it would prolong his life.
02:31Suspicious eyes turned toward Valerius.
02:35He's the real servant of darkness, not me.
02:39Burn her! Burn her now!
02:47The wind stops.
02:50I owe you one. Command me.
02:53Now is the time.
02:54If you want him in hell, lend me your hands.
02:57The sky blackens at once.
02:59Clouds swallow my son.
03:01The flames at my feet go out.
03:02Then flare back to life in a strange blue fire.
03:06They do not burn me.
03:07They only eat through the ropes.
03:09Valerius suddenly starts convulsing.
03:11His left arm jerks up against his will.
03:13The old scratches split open again, blackening as they tear wider.
03:18The cross slipped from his fingers and clattered to the ground.
03:21He lets out a scream that does not sound human.
03:24Then he looked behind him in terror.
03:26A black shape thickens in the air as though ink has been poured over glass.
03:30Cecile takes form.
03:31Her neck is scorched black.
03:33Her body is half-burning.
03:34Tears still stain her face.
03:36Stepping onto the loosened rope and rising to my full height on the execution platform.
03:43Now, I get to judge you.
03:47I had only been in this world a short time.
03:50But I had already seen enough.
03:52I knew exactly where power came from in a crowd like this.
03:55Build a line.
03:57Name a common enemy.
03:58At that moment, Valerius' left hand, the one covered in claw marks, keeps crushing his own throat.
04:06He hangs half in the air.
04:08Kicked up by the saint's dead grip.
04:10His legs thrashing.
04:12The square sinks into a silence so heavy it feels like stone.
04:17Fear ripples through the people.
04:19But so does doubt.
04:21Marquis de Morae, who was sent to supervise the execution.
04:25Everyone, do not be fooled by this witch's tricks.
04:29Even if Valerius is guilty, the church should judge him.
04:33You expect us to trust the word of a demon-eyes girl?
04:36Your visions prove nothing.
04:40The dead don't invent tricks.
04:42They only tell the truth people buried.
04:44Take your eldest son, for example.
04:46The one who vanished three years ago.
04:49Valerius told you he died on pilgrimage, didn't he?
04:51The Marquis goes rigid.
04:53His sword shakes.
04:56But your son is right behind you.
05:00He says he saw Valerius torturing a novice inside the confessional, so Valerius silenced him.
05:06He was never buried in holy ground.
05:09He was chopped into pieces and hidden under the old laurel tree in the church garden.
05:15That's impossible.
05:17Cecile, show him.
05:19Her shadow stretches across the ground like spilled tar.
05:23Then tears toward the cathedral in a shrieking room.
05:26The Marquis runs after it.
05:28So do the townsfolk.
05:34When they come back, the Marquis is staggering.
05:38In his hands is a sealed gold vessel.
05:41Inside it is a shriveled heart.
05:43That is the end of fate.
05:44The square erupts.
05:46Kill him!
05:48Burn the Karis eater!
05:51Tear him apart!
05:54The mom swallows Valerius blood.
05:59I stand on the stake and watch the archbishop die.
06:03The trial has only just begun.
06:07Leela!
06:09You...
06:10You're alive!
06:11Thank God!
06:13She is the adopted daughter who entered the convent with me.
06:17She is also the one who drugged my food, deepened the unnatural color of my eyes, and pointed at me
06:23in front of the church and cried witch.
06:25Leela!
06:28Bella!
06:29Don't expect me to forgive you like before.
06:31I'm not the old Lila.
06:33Not that saintly little fool.
06:35What are you saying?
06:37I was worried about you.
06:39I never thought they were really bad.
06:41I looked at the looming shadow behind her.
06:43The wreath was furiously tearing at Belly's hair.
06:46Bella knew nothing of it, only busy putting on her act of sisterly affection.
06:50And in that instant, another truth falls into place.
06:53Next month is the coronation.
06:56The prince's bride, the future queen, was supposed to be me, the only marriageable daughter of the house.
07:03She was trying to take my place.
07:06At this moment, heavy hooves crash against the stones outside the square.
07:10The crowd parts.
07:12Two lavish carriages roll in beneath the protection of mounted knights.
07:17The royal crest and the holy sigil are carved into both.
07:21The doors open.
07:22Two women step down.
07:30The woman on the left is my eldest sister, Cassandra.
07:34She sees good and evil as clearly as color, and turns morality itself into force.
07:39That power made her the royal court's cleanest blade.
07:42The woman on the right is my second sister, Sophia.
07:45She can see the end date on every life.
07:48She steals years from the condemned and gives them to dying nobles.
07:51That is how she built her influence.
07:54You should not be alive.
08:01You should not be alive.
08:03Your countdown reset.
08:04A forbidden force rewrote your fate.
08:11As the daughters of the woman who once married into this house, you should have been house-storm-pressed pride.
08:18Only I was packed off to a convent whilst still a child.
08:22Then sent to die on a pyre.
08:24Liar!
08:26The king is watching this miracle!
08:28You're an anomaly.
08:29And anomalies make powerful people nervous.
08:32Come with us.
08:33Quietly.
08:33I do not trust them.
08:35Not after they stood by while I was condemned.
08:38In light of what you have shown here, and the unrest caused by your eyes, you are stripped of the
08:43Stormcrest name.
08:45Effective immediately, you are to be exiled to Blackstone Cult.
08:52Blackstone Keep is a death sentence.
08:54People say even rats go mad there.
08:57I'll go.
09:00Cassandra rules the capital through morality.
09:02Sophia rules the empire through lifestamp.
09:06And I?
09:07Coming!
09:08I am being thrown into a ruin full of dead things.
09:12To them, it is exile.
09:14To me, it might be a door.
09:19Because in this world, power may wear the mask of virtue or time.
09:24But under both lies the same foundation.
09:28Bones.
09:29And if what I hold is really tied to death.
09:32Then a fortress full of corpses may be the best place in the world for me to begin.
09:40The moment I tried to pick up the chest again, that same agony came flooding back.
09:49The road to Blackstone Keep is lined with nameless graves.
09:53As the carriage moves north, the city gives way to empty land.
09:57Then to scrub.
09:59Then to sand.
10:01The farther they went, the more uneasy the guards looked.
10:05Cecile sits across from me now, no longer flickering in and out like before.
10:10In life, she was all softness and worship.
10:13In death, something colder has settled into her bones.
10:18Lady Lyra, that god's soul was fading away.
10:22Three hours from now, he'll freeze to death out here.
10:28I can see more than ghosts.
10:31I can see death itself.
10:33Now these eyes seem determined to drag me past time itself.
10:37I see the dead.
10:39I see the wounds that killed them.
10:43I hear their whispers.
10:45Sometimes I see the memory of the moment they died.
10:50I raise my hand and touch the scorched hollow of Cecile's throat.
10:58An icy, electric, shock-like sensation swept through me in an instant.
11:04Then her injury closes.
11:06The charred wound zips itself shut under a pulse of violet light.
11:13Lady Lyra,
11:15you can restore us.
11:17You can restore us!
11:25It may just be muscle memory.
11:27A doctor sees damage and wants to cut, fix, stitch, understand.
11:32And apparently, I could also mend souls now.
11:38I called these little surprises luck.
11:41The carriage rolled to a stop in front of Blackstone Cape's rusted iron gate.
11:50This wasn't an old castle.
11:54This was a giant morgue.
11:58The moment I stepped into the great hall, they came for me.
12:02My brain screamed.
12:04My eyes wept blood from the strain.
12:06I ordered.
12:08My voice cold.
12:10Back off!
12:10They didn't listen.
12:11Spirits with no shape and no sense.
12:14Just raw, hungry instincts.
12:16Suddenly, a gust of wind scattered them.
12:19Don't bother begging them like that.
12:21It's useless.
12:22Beneath the shattered stained glass window,
12:25half hidden in shadow,
12:27sat a man.
12:28Like he'd been waiting for me all along.
12:41Like he'd been waiting for me all along.
12:43Who are you?
12:44A failure.
12:46My body was stolen.
12:47My soul though?
12:49It just won't die.
12:50Leela moaned.
12:51Take a good look.
12:53Blackstone Keep isn't a castle.
12:54It's the Empire's soul alchemist's factory.
12:57They haul souls here.
12:58From commoners through criminals.
13:00Grind them to dust.
13:01And refine the purest life force.
13:03Then they ship it to the capital.
13:05Following his lead, my violet eyes began to pulse wildly.
13:09Visions flooded my sight.
13:11Overlapping.
13:13Chaotic.
13:14They were the collective memories of the dead.
13:16So you're a harvested battery too?
13:20I'm a battery they'll never drain.
13:23They chopped up my body, but my soul was too hard to chew.
13:27Listen.
13:28The Arcan isn't ripping out Saintus' hearts to extend his own life.
13:31He's just a supplier.
13:33The real customer is the king.
13:35And the one swinging the blade?
13:36That's your sister.
13:37Why are you telling me all this?
13:39Your mother asked me to.
13:41She told me to wake for you here.
13:43Leela.
13:44See your power for what it is.
13:46You can read how the dead died.
13:47You can mend their wounds.
13:49But that's just the beginning.
13:51Next week, the king's sickly son is taking a new bride.
13:55Another sacrifice.
13:57The king needs a top grade spare part to keep himself alive.
14:02Guess who they've chosen as the next offering?
14:04Bella thought she'd stolen a fortune from me.
14:06Who knew she'd actually stolen a death sentence?
14:11What's your name?
14:13Alaric.
14:14Deep under Blackstone Keep, there's something your mother left before she died.
14:18I've kept it safe for you for decades.
14:21With that, you'll get closer to the truth.
14:25I followed the spiral staircase down.
14:29The underground didn't smell of rot like I'd expected.
14:32Instead, there was a sharp, chemical scent.
14:36Something like formaldehyde.
14:38At the bottom of the stairs lay a precision laboratory.
14:41In the center, on a stone table, sat a heavy iron chest.
14:47The moment I touched the chest, my violet pupils erupted with shattered images.
14:52I saw my mother.
14:54She hadn't died from postpartum weakness.
14:56She had been down in this dungeon, frantically recording something.
15:00She wasn't a victim.
15:02She was a key node in this whole immortality experiment.
15:06Connecting it with what Alaric had told me, the current king wasn't the first beneficiary of this immortality scheme.
15:12They had used Blackstone Keep to drain life force.
15:14But when the keep stopped working, they needed a replacement.
15:17And my mother?
15:18She might have been that replacement.
15:21The moment I tried to pick up the chest again, that same agony came flooding back.
15:31Lady Mondae left a magic mark behind.
15:34It was meant cement to someone from her world.
15:37Someone like her.
15:39To end all of this.
15:43Now, can you tell me your real name?
15:57My name is Lyra. I'm a medical examiner.
16:02Cecil stood behind me.
16:05Her voice was no longer ethereal.
16:08Lady Lyra.
16:10I can feel the wind now.
16:12She pulled a long sword from her hollow chest, looking just as shocked as I felt.
16:18I'm going to use this blade to carve out that old immortal's heart.
16:25Only the one who picks up this blade is worthy of pureness.
16:29Back then, the king ripped out my heart, trying to turn me into the purest battery for Blackstone Keep.
16:34Your mother used that open heart moment to secretly stitch part of my soul into the Keep's foundation.
16:40She saved my consciousness, but trapped me here, unable to leave.
16:45She was a brilliant stitcher.
16:48She did all of this so the immortality farce would end with my generation.
16:52And she must have had her reasons for saving me.
16:55Will you come with me, Alaric?
16:57Lyra.
16:59If you want to take me with you, you'll have to use that blade.
17:03Stitch my ghost into your shadow.
17:05From then on, your life will be my anchor.
17:08Clark.
17:08Chou chou chou.
17:12abord just being uncomfortable.
17:12worker.
17:12His cold, weightless body passed threw from his grace...
17:16...then dissolved into swirling black smoke that shrank into my shadow.
17:24Let's go, getting away the scaari.
17:29after the coronation banquet in the imperial capital bella wearing a pure white wedding dress
17:35held the hand of the king's most beloved third prince i hid in the shadow of the huge stone
17:40pillar in the banquet hall and the shadow under my feet stirred restlessly as if echoing the
17:44undercurrent surging in my heart my second sister sophia appeared behind me without warning
17:49her tone trembling imperceptibly and her eyes were filled with unprecedented anxiety it turned out
17:55that bella had been a pawn from the very beginning used to carry a cruel exchange of vitality the king
18:00would use sophia's hand for bella's vitality to the third prince it was never lila i was leia after
18:07three years of protection it was now my turn to come back and clean up this mess with my own
18:12hands
18:14the banquet reaches its peak lego lifts the golden cup with shaking excitement the prince does the
18:20same i object i step out of the shadows at once the glamour around the nobility peels away in my
18:26sight the beautiful faces wrinkle collapse rot under their silken velvet i see patchwork flesh and old
18:33sutures and stolen years barely held together seal materializes in the center of the hall her dead white
18:39face all of it appears before the assembled lords and ladies for a heartbeat no one moves then someone
18:45screams the same the same the same is that the hall explodes into panic cecile raises her sword and
18:52starts heading to the crowd every thrust lands in the transplanted heart walk toward them slowly
18:58my violet eyes burn today is where we came kill that witch the king roars my slamming hand on the
19:04table
19:05the royal guard searches forward my shadow erupts black blades race across the floor sparing huge soldier
19:12in his own shadow bodies crumble and weather away before they even scream half of hour rises from the
19:18darkness and wraps one spectral hand around the prince's throat bella drops to the floor stunned i crouch in
19:24front of her and then i smile thanks for dying in my place she jerks back finally recognizing the danger
19:30why are you still alive you bitch catch her wrist and wrench her upright then i turn toward the king
19:36your majesty is this the heart you wanted do you even know what she is she's not lady monda's true
19:42daughter king does not panic not even a little he is staring at the scalpel in my hand
19:49once the hidden mother array beneath the floor ignites the modern scalpel in my hand lets out a
19:54shrill metallic crack then it rips free of my grip it does not fly toward the king it does not
20:00fly toward
20:00the prince it shoots straight across the hall and buries itself in sophia's chest
20:07for one second everything stops the silver flash the wet sound of impact sophia looking down at the
20:15blade sticking out of her chest i reach her as she falls at a glance it looks fatal but i
20:20am a doctor
20:20before i am anything else something is wrong there is no arterial spray and my breath catches the blade
20:27is not in her heart it is embedded in a black growth at that exact moment the king lets out
20:32a
20:32monstrous scream one whole side of his face shrivels before our eyes collapsing into dried rot now i get
20:39it i say gripping the scalpel the blade didn't attack her it cut out the parasite sophia cocks up black
20:45blood and drives my wrist our lives were tied to the king when we were children she whispers mother
20:51made a deal cecile returns at a run sword dripping lady lyra the nobles are dying and stolen ears are
20:59snapping back all at once did you do this the trick lands in pieces and then all at once sophia
21:05is one
21:05half of the king's living life and cassandra is the other my mother used her daughters as thorns hidden
21:10inside the king's body at my call my shadow boils move i drag sophia with me cecile shields us alaric
21:19wraps us in black force and senses crashing through the palace windows and down into the freezing mode
21:23below north of the capital stands the holy court that is cassandra's domain unlike the banquet hall
21:31this place is clean to the point of madness with a bleeding sophia in my arms cassandra is already seated
21:38at the judgment bench beside her stands high pontiff julian he smiles with his eyes lowered a holy
21:43white aura blazing above him so bright it almost hurts to look at my child julian says stepping down
21:49from the dais i have waited for you i feel it at once the pressure heavy enough to crush thought
21:55cassandra says nothing she does not stop him that tells me everything i need to know sophia broke the link
22:02too early the truth is leaking julian needs me dead before the room catches up all those crimes he says
22:09softly the archbishop the broken marriage the chaos in the palace such evil death is the only thing that
22:16can cleanse your soul he raises his hand white light gathers in his palm dense and vicious enough to
22:22shred the mind before he can strike my shadow spills across the floor beneath him a scale can punches up
22:28from
22:28the darkness and catches the holy light barehanded the light vanishes into shadow the hand is scorched
22:34to pieces for the effort but enough julian he says voice low and filthy with contempt the pontiff sees his
22:41face prince aleric he shrieks impossible your soul should still be trapped
22:48my pulse stutters aleric's identity is bigger than i ever guessed he is the king's brother the prince the
22:55crown should have gone to lyra aleric says without looking back protect your sister he draws a massive
23:01black sword cecile steps in front of me and sophia julian does not attack aleric head on he comes for
23:08me cecile takes the blow instead white heat tears part of her form away but she keeps the strike from
23:13hitting sophia too i hurl the scalpel the blade slices straight through the holy white ring above julian's
23:19head and in the instant that false halo breaks sandra's world breaks with it she does not see
23:24radiant virtue anymore she sees faces hundreds of them all the people she condemned all the scraps of
23:31goodness stripped from them and packed into julian's crown of life the dead crowd the room with their grief
23:36my shadow breaks them in some become wind around aleric some pardon his armor some sharpen the sword in his
23:44hand
23:44the rest gather behind me farmers with pitchforks nuns with candlesticks have a ring with split skulls
23:51and phantom horses cassandra presses bloody fingers to her eyes no she whispers no that can't be true
23:58you're indispensable i tell her coldly mother didn't surrender she planted blades sophia was time
24:06you were morality and i the doors blow open the king enters with half his face rotten and bella in
24:12one
24:12hand like a butcher carrying meat lyra he rasps give me the knife or i cut out what your mother
24:18hid inside
24:19your sister he claws open his robe a black smoking heartbeat in his chest then he squeezes it cassandra
24:25drops to her knees through her gown strange violet light pulses from her abdomen in the exact shape of
24:31the array of blackstone and before anyone can kneel the king chances hand in julian's back and reaches for cassandra
24:40the king's fingers tear through flesh julian's blood pours into the glowing array on the floor
24:46the whole hall shakes no cassandra gasps mother's plan cannot end here then to my shock she grabs him
24:53not to escape to hold him still lyra she screams now at the same instant aleric steps fully out of
25:01my
25:01shadow he is taller than before more solid more terrifying his black sword slams across the king's claws and
25:08stops them cold my dear brother the king hisses is one good eye glittery three 40 years and you're
25:15still a fool father wanted to give you the throne said your soul could not rot so i took the
25:21part i
25:21turned you into the cleanest battery and now look at me now kingdom no body not even a proper life
25:29what gives you the right to stand in my way aleric does not clench the ground under the throne still
25:34remembers your true title
25:35his eyes cut toward me i understand what lines the dead between me do too
25:42their grief turns not just into mourning into vengeance for honor for innocence for what was
25:49stolen i clench my jaw and get ready to move aleric drives his sword through the king's chest i can
25:55hold
25:55him for three minutes he roars three minutes that is all i grab cassandra's arm and force myself to focus
26:05cassandra leaned against the stone pillar coughing up blood violently from the shock of the king's heart
26:10yet she stubbornly shook her head i am guilty i have to stay here the king ignoring his arm that
26:16was
26:17spurting black blood lowered his head and tore at something i could see it was a fresh heart
26:21lay up now aleric roared the wind around him turned into countless black chains tightly binding the
26:28king's enormous misshapen body his withered left face slowly recovered even growing younger madness blazed
26:34in his eyes and his voice warped and stretched you think i have no fantasy you're as naive as you
26:40were
26:40decades ago bella's heart should not have rivaled the city yet the king's body swelled his
26:45severed armly grew face after face surged induced tests and countless soul fragments on the ground
26:51were sucked into him some of the undead beside me were ground directly into dust i was not one of
26:56the
26:56undead but blood kept seeping from my eyes nevertheless i struggled against the wind toward the king
27:02cassandra took my hand her tattered robe flapped loudly in the gale and a white light shielded me from
27:08applying shards of souls the undead around aleric were constantly being drawn away by the king
27:13fighting back the urge to vomit blood i saw him turn his head and shouted me remember what i told
27:18you
27:19before so the souls together you have to command them aleric drove his gray sword into his chest
27:25as a forensic doctor knew this race he was slightly dead all too well cassandra
27:38the blade tip precisely avoided all vital points on cassandra neatly severing the self-destruct pact
27:43stitched inside her cassandra let out a low groan as i tore the purple core straight out of her body
27:48and held it high above my head the core drew the undead energy that had flooded into the king's body
27:52swirling back toward it cassandra struggled to straighten up i used the blade to stitch and mend the scattering
27:58undead forces around us then held the scalpel it pierced the purple core and drove straight into
28:03aleric's back his body stretched and twisted violently in the center of the hall devoured by
28:08nether fire until nothing remained for the murky shadow to his mother's heart everything was already
28:13too late the king's body disintegrated into act he turned his head half his handsome face was eaten away
28:20by ghostly blue flames green and purple light flickering alternately with his pupils his features twisted
28:26with an eternal madness that i've never seen before behind his hunched silhouette he placed the
28:31blood-stained crown steadily upon his own hands i snapped open my purple eyes
28:36piercing heels convinced war and at last saw the true nature of the heart in the moment my
28:40spell could touch it a built-in self-destruct rune would detonate instantly erasing all souls
28:45sewn within it just then aleric completely consumed by the heart let out a beastly growl and swung his
28:51greatsword horizontally at me i do not stand there waiting for love to save me i throw myself sideways
28:58behind a broken stone pillar and wrench the scalpel back into my hand i have to kill him i whisper
29:05my
29:06voice does not shake do i love him maybe but that isn't the point what matters is this if i
29:12don't cut
29:13that heart out now he will become worse than the king ever was he drives his sword into the floor
29:18to keep from moving most of his face is gone to blue flame now his hand shakes on the hilt
29:23lyra
29:25kill me i move fast i rush straight into his arms he is too locked in pain to stop me
29:32the scalpel
29:33flashes i drive it toward the glowing core in this chest aleric smiles then instead of stopping me
29:39he grabs my wrist and forces the blade deeper into himself boom the blast throws me backward
29:45as i black out i see him dissolve not into ash into light that i murmur to myself in the
29:51last
29:52moment before unconsciousness takes me is the worst growth rejection i've ever seen
29:59when i wake the war is over the king is gone the immortality system is gone everyone who lived off
30:06stolen years begins aging naturally or dying naturally at last later in the imperial archives
30:12i discover the final piece bella really was lady monday's daughter just not by the earl she was the
30:18child of an affair that was why the king could still use her heart shared blood is useful even when
30:24it is
30:24not perfect i returned to blackstone keep the dead come with me my sisters walk beside me when we pass
30:32through the stormcrest lands my father kneels and offers me his staff as if submission might by
30:37forgiveness i look at them and feel nothing i take only what my mother left behind then i begin searching
30:43for aleric the dead help me collect every scrap they can find but his fragments are too small too
30:49scattered even my violet eyes can barely hold on to them so i go back to blackstone keep what are
30:55you
30:56trying to do sofia asks weekly rebuild him his body turned to ash his soul shattered you'd be stitching
31:03emptiness as long as even one trace of him still exists in the world's field i say without looking
31:10up i can recreate him this was an unprecedented full organ reconstruction surgery aleric once told
31:19me that mother had kept a fragment of his soul i dragged my broken body back to the underground
31:23laboratory of blackstone fortress point 40 years ago in that deal mother had traded her own
31:28hardware carving it into the ground ruins of the laboratory as the core that summoned me across
31:33time and space among mother's belongings i found a letter written in modern english unfolding it i stared
31:39at the familiar modern handwriting i am the beginning of this tragedy and you night are its end aleric's
31:45body was ground to dust by the king 40 years ago i thought a heart for a heart was an
31:49equal exchange
31:50yet it was nothing but the king's life the king had never kept his promise to release mother's
31:55daughter to sandra and sophia instead control them for his own purposes after her heart was cut out
32:01the mother died with bitter pain her soul fragments lingered in this ancient castle
32:06searching day and night until she finally created the glory to summon a traveler from another world
32:11her third daughter went out of wedlock with kawan they sent to a contact my dear child
32:15i'm sorry to maintain this weight her handwriting was scribbled hastily as if written in extreme
32:21urgency these were her final words and she revealed the method of resurrect lila's heart must have
32:26stopped beating before you arrived from the moment you opened your eyes you have been living off the
32:31life force with an hour's heart i looked at the shattered spirit and his fragments piled on the operating
32:36table my eyes glowing with his mind desperate resolve if you are willing to give half your
32:40lifespan to rebuild his circulatory system he will live he is a capable ruler i lay beside the
32:46operating table gripping the scalpel tightly this was the ultimate surgery no assisted needed i sliced
32:52open my own chest added precision i cut out half of my own heart being violent shimmering with the
32:58ratings of underworld fire
33:03those soul fragments were drawn to the heart in my hand aleric's eyes snapped open and in those
33:08emerald green pupils my haggard yet triumphant face was reflected he sat up staring blankly at his
33:14own hands his memories seemed frozen in the moment he had driven my blade into his body only when he
33:19saw
33:20me pale but smiling did he breathe in disbelief and pull me into a fierce embrace a real tangible embrace
33:26with a heartbeat breath and the warmth of my body i can actually hold you now leila his voice was
33:32hoarse trembling at the end you have given me new life a week later the imperial capital changed dynasties
33:39i looked down over the entire realm restored to life then turned to smile at aleric in his eyes
33:45i saw a flood of emotion i glanced back at the city's inhabitants humans and undead alike all looking up
33:51at me in reverence in this world the nature of power was no longer to take but to protect
33:56long live the dead i whispered softly aleric took my hand and kissed my fingertips
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