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00:00My 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 seven 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 Yoramankar, 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 lingworm, 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.
00:42Seven years ago, the hatching hall. On the altar lay 20 familiar eggs, each radiating a different light. Aurelia walked
00:49to the center and picked up an egg glowing with golden flames. This egg is calling my name Mentor, she
00:54said with a smile. She never once looked at me. The last egg lay alone in the corner.
00:58Dull, gray-white, without a trace of light. Archmaster Maldus gave me a side lay glance.
01:03Vesper, you are patient. You can bear this stillness. This one is yours.
01:06I cradled it in my hands. Heavy. Ice cold. It took me seven years.
01:11I slept with it against my skin every single night. Fed it my magic, thread by thread.
01:15I turned down every field trial. Missed three ascension rites and four tower galas.
01:20I read every lindworm-hatching record in the Grand Library.
01:23I learned to scrape the absolute bottom of my magical core when utterly exhausted.
01:27Seven years later, the shell cracked. A boy with silver hair and amber eyes stepped out.
01:32He opened his eyes, and I was the first thing he saw. After that, he never chose to see me
01:37again.
01:38He became Aurelia's shadow. She practiced the sword. He played the harp by her side.
01:42She frowned. The smiled. He bent over backward to make her gentleman.
01:46All she had to say was such a gentleman, and from that moment on, I became an obstacle in his
01:50way.
01:50Today, three senior apprentices block my path. Lysander stands next to them.
01:54He says it to my face.
01:55Aurelia is brilliant. She's beautiful and kind. She is the only one worthy to be my mate.
02:00Vester, if you actually care about me, break the bond!
02:03The three seniors turn to stare. They are not here to mediate. They are here to witness my humiliation.
02:08Cedric speaks 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.
02:15Face reality. Dragging this out only makes you a laughingstock.
02:18You two were never a match.
02:19Orlando chimes in a soft voice.
02:21It's not your fault. It's a matter of bloodline. If you truly love him, set him free. It would be
02:26best for everyone.
02:28Gabriel cuts to the chase.
02:30The heir of Jormangel is destined for the highest nobility, and Auraria is a daughter of the phoenix.
02:35It's fate.
02:37The whole tower is dying to celebrate their bond ceremony. Standing in their way just disgraces 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.
02:52Seven 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
03:04right to exist.
03:04The meteoric iron dagger sinks into Lysander's chest. I drive it beneath the breastbone. Straight into his Lindwarf core crystal.
03:10The one place no hand had reached in seven years. Those amber eyes, always so arrogant, widen in shock and
03:15pain.
03:16Vesper. You, what did you?
03:18He stares at me, and really stares, as if the wound had finally taught him where to look. I steady
03:23my grip, twisting the blade deeper. The meteorite edge crushes his core into dust. Not a chance of survival. Archmage
03:29Melduz mentioned it in a lecture once. The nine lives of a Lindworm? Just a myth. But the core? That's
03:35their fatal weakness. At last, one of Melduz'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. Its
03:58scales go dull at once, stripped of all their glory. It coils across the floor, taking up half the room.
04:03I don't blink. I watch until he stops twitching. I rip the dagger out.
04:08Walk to the center of the room. Drop to my knees. I start carving into the floor. Deep in the
04:13tower's restricted vault lies a book, The Chronicle of Primal Blood Rites. I copied a page from it in secret
04:18and hid it in my room, studying it in silence for seven years. The Devourer's Gift. A three thousand year
04:24old taboo. No tools required. No setup needed. Just one caster. And one formidable sacrifice.
04:31I finish the last rune. I slice my fingertip open. Let the blood drip into the center. I drag Lysander's
04:37corpse into the circle. My blood spreads out. It lights up every carved line. The whole array blazes with dark
04:42gold light. I've never seen a color like it. But every vein in my body hums. Lysander's serpent form lights
04:48up. First the scales. Then the muscles. Finally the bones. Everything breaks down. Bit by bit. It melts into threads
04:56of dark gold energy. Ripped straight from his corpse. Flowing right into me.
05:00The threads sink through my skin. Hook into my bloodstream. The moment the first thread enters. Something explodes in my
05:06head. A memory that isn't mine. Locked deep in my soul since the day I was born. It cracks wide
05:12open. I see a creature. It eats stars. Swallows light. Devours the laws of reality. It has existed since the
05:19beginning of the world. The first predator. The primal devourer. I always thought I was worthless. My magic was pathetically
05:26weak. Ever since I entered the tower at twelve. I ranked at the bottom.
05:30I thought I was born broken. But now I realize I was wrong. Basic magic is useless to me. Everything
05:36the tower taught me is worthless. Something in me had lain dormant since birth. Seal behind an appetite no ordinary
05:42magic could feed. Lysander. The heir of Jormungandr. The only sacrifice to break the seal in three thousand years. I
05:48smile. So that is the truth. Lysander's body vanishes completely. Every drop of his energy floods my veins. The shackles
05:56that bound my magic for seven years collapse. One by one.
05:59When the last of the dark gold vanishes into me. I rise with an archmage power in my bones. All
06:04that's left is a dry ritual ray and a pool of blood. Not a single trace of Lysander. Like he
06:09never existed at all. I rise to my feet and roll my wrist. My joints crack. The door bangs open.
06:16Maldra stands in the doorway. Arolia cowers behind him. Eyes red and body shaking. She clutches her golden phoenix. The
06:23three seniors flank them. Faces pale with terror.
06:25How could you? You killed him and then you devoured him.
06:29She breaks down sobbing. Maldra unleashes his full Archmaster era across the room.
06:34Vesper. What you did in this room defiles the tower. Yet you also performed a forbidden ritual. By my authority
06:42you are cast out and remounded to the abyss.
06:44His power crashes down on me. Seven years ago. This would have crushed me. But now. I'm an archmage. I
06:51hold the power of the primal devourer. I 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 seven
07:01years ago. Tower Code Volume 7 Chapter 3 Section 11. A familiar's life belongs to its hatcher.
07:07Your language. Not mine. Maldra chokes on his own words. Arolia suddenly cuts in. Tears already gathering as if on
07:14command. Her voice trembles with practiced grief.
07:17Even if he was just a familiar. You were together for seven 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
07:34her. You care an awful lot about what belongs to other people. Do other people's belongings always catch your eye?
07:40Arolia goes white. The phoenix in her arm struggles. She grips it tighter. The bird pecks at her wrist.
07:46How dare you!
07:47Maldus snaps. He knows I have him cornered on the rules. But Arolia's tears matter more than his own laws.
07:53He 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
08:03towards Arolia. Someone like you is a threat to this tower. I sentence you to three 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 three weeks down there.
08:20So that is a sentence. Death. Draped in formal language. A flash of satisfaction crosses Arolia's eyes. Then she fakes
08:27a worried look.
08:28Mentor. Surely there is another punishment. The abyss will kill her. Please. Not that.
08:34Her mouth says the words. Her feet don't move an inch.
08:37My word is final. Take her away.
08:40The tower guards step forward. I will walk on my own. I head for the entrance. Passing Arolia. I stop.
08:48I lean in and drop my voice to a whisper just for 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.
09:04I jump in. And let the abyss swallow me whole. I hit the bottom of the abyss. Blood. Rots. The
09:11stench from hundreds of feral beasts. Old bones under my boots.
09:14Green eyes flashing in the shadows. Growls echoing from every direction. The primal devourer in my veins wakes up instantly.
09:21It 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. Bone
09:31plates hard as steel. Tusk's meant to shred metal.
09:33I don't even use magic. I sidestep. Drive my bare fist into its ribs. Crack. The boar slams into the
09:40rock wall. Bone gives way. It dies instantly.
09:43The devourer doesn't just give me magic. It remakes my body. I press my palm to the boar's chest. Dark
09:49gold threads rip from its corpse into me.
09:51Core. Bloodline. Energy. I take it all. The corpse crumbles into an empty husk. Not a bad start.
09:57Over the next few days, I hunt my way through the abyss. Shadow panders give me speed. Rock shell lizards
10:03leave toughness in my bones. Toxic bog toads try their poison on me, and my blood devours that too.
10:08The magical concentration is higher than I expected. I stalk through the abyss like an apex predator. Grading my prey.
10:15Everything in my path runs for its life.
10:17My power surges to Archmage, level 2. Every day, I grow stronger.
10:21I just killed a two-headed wind serpent. As I reach for its core, I sense movement above. I hide
10:27my aura. Melt into the shadows. Up on a rock ledge.
10:31Maldus, Aurelia, and the three seniors. Standing inside Maldus's protective ward. Without it, the toxic air would destroy their lungs
10:38in minutes.
10:39Aurelia hugs her golden phoenix, her dress somehow still spotless. She holds a silk handkerchief to her nose, staring down
10:45into 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 as her bird's feathers. That'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 beautifully.
11:10The 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. Its future reaches even
11:19higher.
11:20Exactly. Vesper is selfish and cruel. She killed Lysandar. What a loss to the whole tower.
11:25You have a heart of gold. Stop wasting your pity on her.
11:28Aurelia nods softly. Then, she raises her voice. I just think, maybe she's broken down, lost her way.
11:36If she just came out and apologized. Lysander is gone.
11:39But Mentor is generous. He'd give her a second chance. She doesn't have to suffer here.
11:43From 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.
11:53It 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.
12:06My right hand snaps around its throat. Its screech cuts off. It thrashes wildly.
12:11Golden fire erupts from its feathers, trying to melt my arm to the bone.
12:15But a pulse of dark gold energy instantly snuffs out the fire.
12:18What are you doing? Let him go! Let him go!
12:21Vester! 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 grip.
12:37The phoenix goes limp. The light in its eyes dies. The golden glow fades. I toss it in the dirt.
12:43Aurelia's scream rips through the abyss. Her face turns white. Her knees buckle.
12:47Cedric barely catches her before she falls to the ground.
12:50My phoenix! You really killed him!
12:53Tears spill over. Her finger points at me. No sweetness now. Only hatred.
12:57He was my destined mate. How dare you? How dare you?
13:01Mentor! She killed Lysander! And now she killed my phoenix!
13:05Aurelia throws herself at Maldus' feet. Maldus' face shifts from cold indifference to murderous fury.
13:11That phoenix was a pureblood. Handpicked for Aurelia. Raised on the tower's premium resources.
13:17Years of investment. Worth far more than Lysander had ever been.
13:20The cornerstone of his entire master plan for Aurelia, and the student he cast into the abyss to die,
13:25has just snapped its neck as if it were nothing. His arch-maced aura explodes.
13:29His magic pours out. A giant hand made of raw arc power hangs above me.
13:33It slams down. He is trying to kill me.
13:34I will grind your soul into ash.
13:37The hand hasn't even touched me yet. The pressure already cracks my bones.
13:41The primal devourer roars awake. I dig my heels in to hold my ground.
13:45I look up at him. Grind my soul? For a phoenix?
13:48Mentor, am I not your student toos?
13:50Seven years of questions boiling over.
13:52Something flickers across his face. It vanishes. Buried by absolute rage.
13:56Shut up! You murdered your bonded beast! You slaughtered your sister's familiar! And now you play the victim?
14:01She wanted Lysanar. You forced me to give him up. Her bird hoops in to steal my kill. And now
14:06you want me dead?
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.
14:13Because she's more talented? Because her tears matter more? Because she's the chosen one in your eyes?
14:17Then what am I? You pulled me out of an orphanage. Was this the plan all along? Was I just
14:21a stepping stone?
14:22Was I always supposed to die the second she needed me to?
14:24Answer me, Mentor.
14:26Dead silence.
14:27The three seniors don't say a word. Everyone knows. It's an open secret. But no one ever ripped it open
14:33and forced them to face it.
14:34Aurelia stops sobbing. Her eyes dart around, showing the fear of being exposed.
14:39Muldrus's face twists. My words strike a nerve he refuses to face.
14:42Taking me from the orphanage might have started as real pity. But year after year, beside Elyria's talent and fortune,
14:47my mediocre gifts lost all value to him.
14:49My worth had been decided long ago, whatever served Elyria best. And now, the tool in his hand has turned
14:54on him.
14:55Silver tongue. Twisted fact.
14:57His tone is hard. Merciless. He tries to cover the wound I have carved into his pride.
15:01What you have done is beyond forgiveness.
15:03The last shred of loyalty I had for this place? It burns out completely.
15:07Then as of today, I owe neither you nor this tower anything. We are done.
15:10Done? You think a lowest rank apprentice gets to decide when this ends? This abyss is your grave.
15:14The magic hand glows brighter. The power spikes. Enough to level the entire bottom of the abyss.
15:19The shockwave alone cracks the ground under my boots into a spider web.
15:23I can't take this hit head on. My eyes lock on the phoenix corpse.
15:26Broken neck. Fainted gold. The primal devourer roars with hunger.
15:29This pure blood core is stronger than Lysiater's. No time for a full ritual.
15:33I grab the bird and shove it against my chest. Dark gold threads rip out of the corpse.
15:37They flood straight into me. Pure phoenix essence explodes in my body.
15:40Every vein burns. My power surges. Archmaster level 3. Level 4. Peak.
15:46Three leaps. Three heartbeats. Maldius's magic hand is still dropping.
15:49I lift my head. I point a single finger. Dark gold energy pools at the tip.
15:53It isn't magic. It's the devourer's source. Older. Stronger than everything.
15:58I flick my finger. Maldius's peak archmist attack shatters like glass breaking from within.
16:02Soundless. Everything fades into a thousand specks of light glistening across the abyss.
16:07The abyss falls silent. Five faces staring down at me.
16:10I'll never forget their expressions. It's the look people wear when their world shatters before their eyes.
16:15I don't hesitate. I launch myself from the bottom onto the ledge.
16:19Cedric. A blast of dark gold energy slams them into the rock wall.
16:22They go limp before they hit the ground.
16:24Aurelia crashes to the dirt. Paralyzed by fear.
16:26Maldius the man who just tried to kill me is frozen.
16:29His eyes are wide with disbelief.
16:30I walk up to him a full head shorter. He takes a step back.
16:33Mentor, do you remember what you told the orphanage mage from the day you brought me here?
16:37Aurelia was next to me. Three years older.
16:39You adopted her from a top-tier noble family the year before.
16:42You said she had the phoenix mark. A once-in-a-century prodigy.
16:45Seven years.
16:47I woke up two hours early every day to study.
16:49She slept in. I stayed up four hours late every night to research.
16:52She went to galas.
16:53In every magical trial, I placed at the absolute laptop.
16:56You said she never even sat for an expense.
16:57Seven years hatching and you tossing like rubbish.
16:59I hatched into the air of Yorma Mangahar.
17:01And today? Today you tried to kill me for her phoenix.
17:03Maldus' lips tremble.
17:04Vesta, I...
17:06I press my hand against his chest.
17:08Your turn.
17:09The devourer wakes up.
17:10Not death.
17:11An archmage does not fear death.
17:13This is worse.
17:14Total erration.
17:15His magic?
17:16Everything that makes him an archmaster.
17:18Pulled out.
17:19Thread by thread.
17:20Turned into dark gold energy.
17:22Drawn into my veins.
17:23I do not devour him completely.
17:25I let him live.
17:26I strip him of everything.
17:28Magic.
17:29Affinity.
17:29Rank.
17:30I leave him breathing.
17:31For a man like Maldus,
17:33Life without magic is worse than death.
17:35I pull my hand back.
17:36He collapses.
17:37His hair turns white.
17:39Deep wrinkles carve into his face.
17:41His eyes go dim.
17:42He looks up at me.
17:43I look down at him.
17:44Tell me, Maldus.
17:45Who betrayed who?
17:46Aurelia is still on the ground,
17:48too terrified to make a sound.
17:49I pick up the phoenix corpse.
17:51Most of its energy is gone.
17:52Even dead, its flesh and bones still have value.
17:54The three knocked out seniors?
17:56Not worth my time.
17:56And then there's Mardus.
17:58A few bounds up the abyss walls.
17:59I grab the bird by the wing and leap upward,
18:01and I land dead center in the tower's main plaza.
18:03The senior mentors and apprentices are crowded together,
18:05panicking over the power spakes from below.
18:07Was that Archmaster energy?
18:08What happened?
18:09It came from the abyss.
18:10Do we have an intruder?
18:11If the archmist is handling it himself,
18:13we should be fine.
18:13I drop from the air,
18:14holding a dead bird in one hand,
18:16pouring out massive dark power without restraint.
18:19Is that Vesper?
18:21She got out of the abyss?
18:22Is that the phoenix?
18:23That power?
18:24Peak Archmaster?
18:25No way!
18:26She's only been down there a few days!
18:28Vesper!
18:28What are you doing here?
18:30That phoenix, what did you do to Auriria?
18:32Where is the Archmaester?
18:34I toss the bird on the cobblestones
18:36and sweep my gaze across the plaza.
18:38Every apprentice flinches when I look at them.
18:41The Archmaster?
18:42You mean the man who abandoned me to that place?
18:44He tried to kill me.
18:45I pause.
18:47So I took everything from him.
18:49Impossible!
18:50Lies!
18:51How dare you slander the Archmaster?
18:53Tivadar and the other mentors flare their magic,
18:55getting ready to take me down.
18:56Don't believe me?
18:57Go look.
18:59He's on the edge of the abyss.
19:00If you hurry you might just save his life.
19:02They feel my power.
19:04That cannot be faked.
19:05As for the rest of you,
19:06I glare at the mentors,
19:07especially fixed on Tivadar.
19:08You all agreed to throw me into that abyss.
19:10I move, fast as lightning.
19:12Three strikes land before anyone can react.
19:14The shields of Tivadorn and the other two mentors
19:16who approved my sentence
19:17shatter, piece by piece.
19:18One by one they collapse onto the ground,
19:20out cold, silence.
19:21Even the senior mentors don't have time to lift a finger.
19:24As of today,
19:25the Tower of Ashes belongs to me.
19:26If any among you object,
19:28step forward.
19:29No one.
19:30No one bows.
19:31But the first one drops his head.
19:33Then the second.
19:35The third.
19:36One after another.
19:37Every one of them lowers their head.
19:39Two guards drag Aurelia into the plaza.
19:41Her pristine image is ruined.
19:44Her dress is torn to shreds.
19:46Covered in dirt and blood.
19:47She drops to her knees.
19:49No fake tears this time.
19:51Please.
19:51I was wrong.
19:53Just leave me alive.
19:54Her voice cracks.
19:55She crawls towards me.
19:57Reaches for my robes.
19:58I give her one look.
19:59She freezes.
20:01It was me.
20:02I was jealous.
20:03I only wanted Lysomir for his bloodline.
20:05I shouldn't have let my phoenix go after you.
20:07She chokes on her sobs, stuttering.
20:10Please.
20:10We studied together for seven years.
20:12Just spare me.
20:13I'll do anything.
20:14I'll leave the tower.
20:15I'll give up the title.
20:15Daughter of the phoenix.
20:16I'll radia.
20:17I cut her off and crouch down so we are eye to eye.
20:21Do you remember what you said to me three years ago?
20:23She goes blank.
20:24I was hatching Lysender.
20:26Three months with no sleep.
20:27My magic was so drained I almost fell down the stairs.
20:30You grabbed my arm and comforted me.
20:32You said, don't push yourself too hard.
20:34When you're familiar hatches, he'll take care of you.
20:36Did you mean any way of it?
20:37She can't answer.
20:39I stand up, looking at the unconscious seniors and mentors.
20:42You told me to do the decent thing and let go.
20:44Did any of you hear what you were saying?
20:46Lysander was mine.
20:48Seven years.
20:48I raised him from an egg, little by little, and you just expected me to hand him over?
20:52Did anyone ask whether I was willy?
20:53I did.
20:53Old man.
20:54You kept Muldrus preaching about Avodia, the daughter of the phoenix, the tower's golden hope.
20:58Everyone had to protect her.
20:59Did you forget?
21:00At 12, my control scores exceeded hers by 12%.
21:02At 14, I undertook my first solo mission.
21:05I nearly died bringing back a toxic Magrosa from the Blackwood Ridge.
21:09You 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 Ebus Rim.
21:17You said our radio was a better candidate.
21:19She backed out.
21:21Said she had a headache.
21:22The hunt got canceled.
21:23You never brought my name up again.
21:25This jerks his head up.
21:26His cloudy eyes are blank.
21:28He has absolutely nothing to say.
21:30I stare at his blank face.
21:32The last trace of pity in my chest dies.
21:34You all forgot.
21:35I didn't choose to be like this.
21:37You made me this way.
21:38Your favoritessness taught me that resources must be taken.
21:41Your sentence taught me that stepping back means getting crushed.
21:44Your attempt on my life taught me that weakness is a sin.
21:47If you hadn't squeezed every drop of humanity out of me, if you hadn't thrown me in the
21:51Abyss to die, I'd still be the quiet little Vesper, keeping her head down, begging for fair
21:56treatment.
21:57You created the monster standing in front of you.
21:59Utter silence.
22:00Just Alaria's muffled sobs.
22:02The crowd is barely breathing.
22:04They understand now.
22:05I wasn't born cold.
22:07They made me this way.
22:08Their bias, indifference, and cruelty.
22:10Strike by stroke, they forged me.
22:12I square my shoulders and turn away, not looking at their faces.
22:15You admitted your sins.
22:17Now it's time to pay.
22:18Aurelia.
22:18She looks up.
22:19Your apprentice status is revoked.
22:21Your magic is sealed.
22:22Just enough to keep you alive.
22:23You will live at the bottom of the Abyss, where your terror will draw out the lesser
22:27beasts to serve as target practice for the apprentice.
22:29You will live.
22:30That much, I will guarantee.
22:32But 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.
22:38She knows exactly what that means.
22:40She opens her mouth to beg.
22:42I don't give her the chance.
22:44Maldus.
22:44For the sake of the one useful thing he taught me, Volume 7, Chapter 3, Sectional 11, he gets
22:49to stay in the tower.
22:50Stripped of all privileges, reduced to the lowest servant in the tower.
22:54A former archmist, scrubbing floors and handing out rations.
22:57The rest of you keep your lives.
22:59For now.
23:00But this tower will never drag anyone down again.
23:03Starting tomorrow, advancement will be earned under my rule alone.
23:06Fewer rewards, harder trials.
23:08No exceptions.
23:10All resources go through me.
23:11I walk toward the main spire.
23:13I don't look back.
23:14Only one thought remains.
23:16What I will hunt next.
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