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00:00The regard she brought back from the Dawn Temple is practically indestructible.
00:03It will be a perfect fit for Lyra.
00:06Once we extract Seraphina's divine power,
00:09it won't take long for Lyra to regain her original form.
00:12I've waited 300 years for this day.
00:16Isn't this too ruthless?
00:17No matter what, she has nurtured Lyra for you.
00:20She was struck by the Blade of Curses.
00:22No medicine in existence could heal that.
00:24I used half my divine power to save her and gave her 300 years of happiness.
00:29Over the years, every rare herb we could find in the Three Realms went straight into her body.
00:33She's enjoyed all of this.
00:34It's only fair she repays it to Lyra now.
00:36Standing outside the heavy doors,
00:38I felt as if the heavenly lightning had struck me all over again.
00:41I stumbled back to my room, my entire body trembling uncontrollably.
00:45My blood ran cold.
00:46The suffocating terror mirrored exactly how I felt on the day I married Seravius.
00:52During that wedding, Seravius had suddenly turned on me.
00:55He stole my septal, critically wounded me, and butchered my people.
01:01As I lay dying, the Lord of the Underhill defied the heavens to save me.
01:06He risked his life to protect me and made me his wife.
01:09After we married, his devotion had utterly flawless.
01:12I had been pregnant for 99 years.
01:15In just one more year, the child would be born.
01:17He had promised me that once the baby arrived,
01:19he would accompany me back to the heavenly realm to take back everything Seravius had stolen.
01:23I believed him. I loved him with every fiber of my being.
01:26Never in my wildest nightmares did I imagine he merely saw me as a vessel.
01:30An incubator meant to resurrect the woman he truly loved.
01:32Seeing my violent trembles, my handmaid Iris rushed over with a blanket,
01:36thinking my chronic illness was acting up.
01:38My lady gets cold so easily.
01:40The Lord commanded that you must drink your herbal tonic after lunch.
01:44He even had the starlight blooms brought down from the heavenly realm to replenish your divine power.
01:49Iris was a healer handmaid Aetherian had specifically brought from the heavenly realm to serve me.
01:53She knew how impossibly rare starlight blooms were.
01:56They grew only on the highest cliffs of the heavenly domains,
01:59blooming once every few centuries, and withered the moment sunlight touched them.
02:03For our 300 years of marriage, Aetherian had treated me like glass.
02:07Knowing I missed my home, he frequently sent his men to procure heavenly artifacts just to make me smile.
02:12The underworld was perpetually freezing,
02:13so he built me a climate-controlled palace modeled exactly after my home in the heavens.
02:18Afraid I would be lonely, he moved his study here, working by my side every day.
02:22Saving me had left him with lingering injuries.
02:24Whenever he overworked himself, he suffered agonizing pain,
02:27but he would always smile through it, telling me that as long as I was safe,
02:30every sacrifice was worth it.
02:32His sincerity had won me over.
02:33Once I learned I was pregnant, I swore I would protect this child with my life,
02:37but it was all a lie.
02:38Everything he did was for Lyra.
02:39He even planned to strip me of my divine power and hand it over to her once she was born.
02:43As I forced down the bitter tonic,
02:45the movements in my womb grew violently erratic.
02:47Blinding pain ripped through my abdomen, leaving me drenched in cold sweat.
02:51That was when the horrifying realization hit me.
02:53The tonic wasn't for me at all.
02:55He was feeding Lyra.
02:56He was accelerating her growth.
02:58No wonder normal divine pregnancies lasted 200 years,
03:01yet I was already showing signs of labor at 100.
03:04I took several deep, shethering breaths until my racing heart settled.
03:08The truth was crystal clear.
03:09It was all a meticulously crafted trap.
03:12But perhaps it wasn't too late to run.
03:14In our three centuries of marriage,
03:16he had never once taken me back to the heavenly realm,
03:18claiming my fragile body couldn't withstand the lightning bat lesion at Tenlin gates.
03:22But I'd rather take my chances with the heavenly tribulation
03:25than be discarded like trash after giving birth to Lyra.
03:28If I survived the lightning,
03:29I could return to the dawn temple and retrieve the primordial artifact my mother left me.
03:34Tears blurred my vision as I swallowed the remaining starlight bloom whole,
03:38roots and all.
03:39I made a vow.
03:40I would never let Lyra be born.
03:42And if I made it out alive,
03:43I would make Aetherian pay in blood.
03:45I channeled every ounce of my fading strength to suppress the violent movements in my womb.
03:50I coughed up a mouthful of blood,
03:53the crimson splatter staining a decorative chest nearby.
03:56It was the chest containing every gift he had given me during our courtship.
04:01Fighting through the agonizing cramps,
04:03I pulled out a magnificent gown woven entirely from gold threads.
04:08Aetherian had sort out the giant race,
04:10mining the purest ore from their ancient reserves.
04:13He spent three years drawing the gold into thread,
04:15weaving this gown stitch by stitch with his own hands.
04:19On our wedding day,
04:20dignitaries from across the three realms attended.
04:23There wasn't a soul who didn't envy me.
04:26But right now,
04:27the golden threads burned my eyes like needles.
04:30With a flick of my wrist,
04:31I summoned a flame.
04:32Fully intending to incinerate the dress,
04:35suddenly the door swung open.
04:37Aetherian walked in.
04:39Did you drink your medicine today, darling?
04:42What made you dig up the wedding dress?
04:44I heard the giants guarding the gold mines
04:46were imprisoned by the heavenly realm
04:48for 300 years for unelaparated mining.
04:52Now that our wedding is long past,
04:54why don't we melt this dress down
04:56and return the gold to them?
04:57Aetherian's face instantly dropped.
04:59No,
05:00I'm saving this dress for-
05:01He cut himself off,
05:03quickly recovering.
05:04Let's keep it as a mementi.
05:05After all,
05:05it's a testament to our love.
05:07Be good,
05:08Serafina.
05:09Put it back.
05:10Hearing the word love from his lips
05:12brought the memory of his conversation
05:14with Morpheus crashing back.
05:15A hot wave of fury
05:17surged through my veins.
05:18I ignited a fireball
05:19and hurled it straight at the gown.
05:21Aetherian lunged forward,
05:23plunging his bare hands
05:24into the magical flames
05:25to snatch the dress back.
05:27The fire instantly seared his flesh,
05:29leaving his hands blistered and bleeding.
05:31Yet he didn't even flinch.
05:33He just pulled the dress to his chest,
05:34whispering,
05:35as the hem of the gown
05:36tumbled from his arms.
05:37My eyes caught something
05:39stitched into the inner lining.
05:41Lyra.
05:41I froze.
05:42He had woven this dress by hand,
05:44alone.
05:45It wasn't for me.
05:46He had made it for Lyra.
05:47No wonder he panicked
05:48when I suggested melting it down.
05:50He was willing to burn his own hands
05:52to protect it.
05:53I reached out,
05:54ready to torch the entire chest of jewelry.
05:56Serafina,
05:57are you out of your mind?
05:59Keep throwing this tantrum
06:01and I'll throw you
06:02into the Abyss of Shadow.
06:03I flinched,
06:04all the color draining from my face.
06:06The Abyss of Shadows.
06:08That was the underworld's
06:10maximum security prison.
06:12Seeing my stricken expression,
06:13his tone softened.
06:15He reached out
06:16to pull me into an embrace.
06:18Serafina,
06:18I was joking.
06:20Promise me you won't
06:21touch these things again.
06:22And I'll make you
06:23your favorite
06:24honey-glazed figs.
06:26How does that sound?
06:27I bit the inside of my cheek
06:28so hard I tasted copper,
06:30refusing to speak.
06:32He tried to coax me
06:33a few more times,
06:34his voice a gentle hum,
06:36but I simply closed my eyes
06:37and turned my face away.
06:38Fine.
06:39Since you want to be stubborn,
06:41go cool your head
06:42in the deep dungeons!
06:43The Abyss of Shadows
06:44was a living nightmare.
06:46Mangled corpses
06:46and bleached bones
06:47left.
06:48I held my swollen belly,
06:49carefully navigating
06:50the treacherous path,
06:52but by the time
06:52we reached the cell,
06:53my lower back
06:54felt like it was
06:55splitting in two.
06:55My lady,
06:56I really don't get it.
06:58The Lord treats you
06:59so well.
07:00Couples fight
07:01all the time.
07:02Why couldn't you
07:03just apologize?
07:05Did it really
07:05have to come to this?
07:06The other guard
07:07nodded in agreement.
07:08Knowing I was
07:09the Lord's wife,
07:10they didn't dare
07:10treat me roughly.
07:11Suddenly,
07:12a shrill,
07:13piercing female voice
07:14echoed from inside my womb.
07:16Punish her,
07:17you useless trash.
07:19Do you think
07:20she's here on vacation?
07:22I stared at my stomach
07:23in sheer horror.
07:24It was Lyra's voice.
07:25She had already
07:26developed awareness
07:27of the outside world.
07:28She was communicating
07:29with her former subordinates
07:31through my flesh.
07:33Lady Lyra,
07:34is it you?
07:36You're alive.
07:38Shut up!
07:39If you know it's me,
07:41then punish this bitch!
07:43If you disobey me,
07:45I'll make you wish
07:46you were dead
07:47when I get out!
07:48Lyra had been
07:49the underworld's
07:50war goddess.
07:51There wasn't a soldier
07:52in the realm
07:52who hadn't suffered
07:53under her command.
07:55The two guards
07:56exchanged a dark look,
07:57all prior hesitation
07:59vanishing.
07:59They dragged me
08:00toward the river of fire.
08:01Suspended over the
08:03roaring,
08:03molten current
08:04was an iron cage.
08:05They forced the cage open
08:06and shoved me inside.
08:08The moment my shoulder
08:08grazed the iron roars,
08:10I heard the sickening hiss
08:11of searing flesh.
08:12The stench of my own
08:13roasting spring
08:13flooded my nostrils.
08:15Lyra's soul temporarily
08:16detached from my womb,
08:17hovering nearby
08:18to revel in my agony.
08:20The cage was
08:21suffocatingly small.
08:22I couldn't even
08:23shift my weight.
08:24My clothes melted
08:24upon contact
08:25with the bars
08:26dripping away
08:26in charred clumps.
08:27My bare skin
08:28pressed directly
08:29against the superheated metal.
08:31It blistered,
08:32split,
08:32and bled.
08:33But the blood
08:34evaporated into steam
08:35before it could even
08:35hit the ground.
08:36I convulsed in agony.
08:38I wanted to scream,
08:39but my throat was so storaged
08:40that no sound came out.
08:42Can't take it anymore,
08:43you pathetic bitch.
08:44The river of fire
08:45won't kill a god,
08:47but it will make
08:48every inch of your body
08:49remember what pain is.
08:50How long do you think
08:51it'll take
08:52before you pass out?
08:53A day?
08:54Three days?
08:55I didn't answer.
08:56I didn't have the strength
08:57left to try.
08:58Time lost all meaning.
08:59My consciousness
09:00began to fray.
09:01I couldn't feel my arms
09:02or legs anymore.
09:03The only thought
09:03echoing my shattered mind
09:04was,
09:05I am going to die.
09:06In the palace,
09:07Aetherian finished
09:07preparing the honey-glazed figs.
09:09He wiped his hands
09:10and mentally linked
09:11with the guards.
09:12Has she learned her lesson?
09:13If she's done reflecting,
09:15bring her up.
09:16I made her favorite pastries.
09:18We can go for a walk
09:19after she eats.
09:20My lord,
09:21the lady hasn't said a word.
09:23She's just been
09:24pretending to sleep.
09:25Through the mental link,
09:26they sent him
09:27a manipulated visual
09:27of me curled up
09:28on the ground,
09:29my clothes intact,
09:30breathing steadily,
09:31making it look as though
09:32I was merely napping
09:33in an ordinary cell.
09:34Keep her locked up!
09:36I refuse to believe
09:38I can't break her stubbornness!
09:39Smashing the plate
09:40of honey-glazed figs
09:41to the floor,
09:41seeing me on the brink of death,
09:43Lyra panicked
09:43that she might lose her host.
09:45She quickly darted
09:46back into my womb,
09:47using her own divine power
09:48to shield my heart.
09:49But she wasn't
09:50showing mercy.
09:51She deliberately
09:51kept me conscious,
09:53crashing violently
09:53inside my stomach
09:54so I would feel
09:55every agonizing second
09:56of the flames.
09:57The pain was unbearable.
09:58I knew she was
09:59doing it on purpose,
10:00but I was completely
10:01powerless to suppress her.
10:02You whore!
10:03You took advantage
10:04of my death
10:05to steal Aetherian,
10:06hoarding everything
10:07that belonged to me!
10:09Today,
10:09I'm going to make you
10:10pay it back tenfold!
10:12Lyra screamed
10:13as she punched
10:13and kicked my insides.
10:14Cold sweat poured
10:15down my face
10:16as my bloody hands
10:17gripped the red-hot iron bars
10:18so hard the metal war-
10:19Stop struggling!
10:20Just enjoy the ride!
10:23Her phantom hand
10:24reaching up
10:24to squeeze my heart.
10:26Right as my vision
10:26went black
10:27from lack of oxygen,
10:28she'd let go
10:28only to do it again
10:29and again,
10:30treating my torture
10:31like a morbid game.
10:32Just as the pain
10:32reached a breaking,
10:33a brilliant golden light
10:34erupted from my chest.
10:36Strange, ethereal threads
10:37extended from my body,
10:38surging with an unfamiliar,
10:40chaotic divine power
10:40that nearly blew
10:41the iron cage apart.
10:42In the royal bedroom,
10:43Etherian had just
10:44hugged my pillow
10:45preparing to sleep
10:46when his heartily
10:47started racing.
10:48Serafina!
10:50The guards just reported
10:52that the lady
10:52is still resting,
10:53my lord.
10:54It's almost midnight,
10:55why not check on her tomorrow?
10:57A night of sleep
10:58might be exactly
10:59what she needs
10:59to see reason.
11:01Etherian nodded slowly
11:03and lay back back to him.
11:05Down by the river of fire,
11:06my handmaid Iris
11:07dropped to her knees
11:08in front of my cage,
11:09sobbing uncontrollably.
11:10My lady!
11:12Who did this to you?
11:14When my divine power leaked,
11:16she sensed it
11:17and used the cloaking spell
11:18I had taught her
11:18to sneak into the dungeons.
11:20I was too weak
11:20to even open my eyes.
11:22I only recognized her
11:23by her voice.
11:24Unable to speak,
11:25I gathered enough strength
11:27to trace letters
11:27in the ash on the floor.
11:29She pulled out
11:29the ones I hadn't finished.
11:31Twelve stalks in total.
11:32Ignoring my scorched,
11:33bleeding throat,
11:34I swallowed them all at once.
11:35Twelve starlight blooms
11:36will only buy you
11:37two hours of power.
11:38What will you do after that?
11:39I offered her
11:40a weak, blood-stained smile.
11:42Two hours.
11:43That was more than enough time
11:44to fly to the heavenly realm
11:45and force a miscarriage.
11:46The temporary surge
11:47of divine power
11:48gave me the strength
11:49to suppress Lyra
11:49and heal the superficial burns
11:51covering my body.
11:52I blasted my way out
11:53of the Abyss of Shadows
11:54and shot upward,
11:55hurtling straight
11:55towards the heavenly realm.
11:56Half an hour later,
11:57the magical ring
11:58on my finger vibrated.
12:00Aetherian's voice
12:01echoed in my mind.
12:02Seraphina,
12:03where are you?
12:03Come back.
12:04I made the honey-glazed figs.
12:05It was an artifact
12:06we forged together
12:07when we married,
12:08allowing us to communicate
12:09across realms.
12:10I ignored him,
12:11pushing myself to fly faster.
12:13Seraphina!
12:13Stop hiding from me!
12:15My patience is wearing thin!
12:17Then,
12:17I heard the blood-glading screams
12:19of the two guards
12:20through the connection.
12:21Deep in the Abyss of Shadows,
12:22Aetherian stood
12:23before the molten cage,
12:24his face twisted
12:25into a mask
12:25of pure terror and rage.
12:27His suffocating divine Arama
12:28crushed the soldiers
12:29to the floor.
12:30The cage had been scrubbed clean,
12:31completely devoid
12:32of my presence.
12:32But it was too clean.
12:34That was what made him suspicious.
12:36He had sensed
12:37a heavenly aura here last night.
12:38Why was it completely gone now?
12:40The lady just vanished
12:41out of nowhere.
12:42My lord,
12:42we swear we had nothing
12:43to do with it!
12:44Find her!
12:46The entire Abyss
12:47was turned upside down.
12:48The river of fire raged,
12:50torturing the damned souls within,
12:51and the underheld echoed
12:53with screams of agony.
12:54Where is she?
12:55How can there be
12:56no trace of her?
12:57Aetherian was losing his mind.
12:59His eyes bloodshot
13:00from days without sleep.
13:01The ring pulsed wildly
13:02with his calls.
13:03Hardening my heart,
13:04I ripped the ring
13:05from my finger
13:05and hurled it
13:06into the void below,
13:07finally severing his hold on me.
13:09Just before my divine power
13:10ran dry,
13:11I breached the heavenly gates.
13:12Before my feet
13:13could even touch the ground,
13:14a massive bolt
13:15of heavenly lightning
13:16struck down from the sky.
13:17I channeled the very last remnants
13:19of the starlight room's power
13:20to brace myself,
13:21but the impact
13:22sent me crashing to the floor,
13:23coughing up blood.
13:24When I tried to push myself up,
13:26I realized my body
13:27was completely empty.
13:28I had no divine power left.
13:31Freed from my suppression,
13:33Lila began screaming
13:34from inside my womb.
13:35You crazy bitch!
13:36What are you doing?
13:37If you want to die,
13:38don't drag me down with you!
13:39Go back!
13:40The second bolt of lightning
13:41tore through the sky.
13:42My war god armor manifest,
13:44shielding me
13:45from the catastrophic blow.
13:46Lila instantly stopped screaming.
13:48The armor shattered,
13:49the backlash searing my flesh
13:50and heavily wounding
13:51her soul inside me.
13:53But it wasn't enough.
13:54I wanted her dead.
13:55Down in the underworld,
13:56Aetherian heard the thunderclaps
13:57and finally realized
13:58what was happening.
13:59I was being judged
14:00by the heavenly tribulation.
14:02Pain ripped through his chest
14:03as he shot toward the heavens.
14:05As the third and deadliest
14:06bolt of lightning descended,
14:07he arrived just in time
14:08to intercept half of the blast.
14:10Even though he absorbed
14:11most of it,
14:12I had nothing left
14:12to defend myself.
14:14I collapsed,
14:15my abdomen erupting
14:16in blinding agony.
14:17Seraphina,
14:18are you insane?
14:19But a split second
14:20before he reached me,
14:22Lyra tore her way
14:23out of my body.
14:25Aetherian!
14:25Save me!
14:26This bitch tried to kill me
14:28with the lightning!
14:29But she looked nothing
14:30like the majestic portraits
14:31Aetherim kept hidden
14:32in his study.
14:34Half of her face
14:35was mangled
14:35by horrific burn scars,
14:37devoid of any
14:38war goddess glory.
14:39The lightning damage
14:40and the premature birth
14:41had rumened her.
14:42She glared at me
14:44with pure venom,
14:45stumbling forward
14:46with her hands outstretched,
14:48trying to strangle me.
14:49I threw my hand up
14:51to push her away.
14:52With her weakened state,
14:53she flew backward
14:54like a paper doll,
14:55crashing directly
14:56into Aetherian's arms.
14:59Aetherian,
15:00I just wanted
15:00to help her up
15:01and she tried
15:02to push me off
15:02the edge of the realm!
15:04Aetherian raised his hand
15:05and struck me hard
15:06across the face.
15:07The slap echoed
15:08like a gunshot.
15:10Seraphina!
15:10You heartless monster!
15:12You tried to use
15:13the heavenly lightning
15:14to execute Lyra,
15:15leaving her disfigured
15:16and premature.
15:17For 300 years,
15:18I treated you
15:19like a queen.
15:20I merely borrow
15:21your womb.
15:21I never intended
15:22to harm you.
15:23How could you
15:24be this vicious?
15:25I couldn't speak.
15:26I just stared at him.
15:28My face is ruined.
15:30I'd rather be dead
15:32than live like this.
15:34Just kill me.
15:37No, no.
15:38I have a way to fix you.
15:39Just trust me.
15:40What way?
15:41Flaying the skin
15:42off my face
15:43and grafting it
15:43onto hers.
15:44I spat out
15:45another mouthful of blood.
15:46I didn't have the energy
15:47to argue anymore.
15:48I didn't even want to.
15:50Lyra was the one
15:51trying to kill me.
15:52But the moment
15:53she played the victim,
15:54he believed her
15:54without a second thought.
15:57I was lying there
15:58in a pool of my own blood.
15:59My armor shattered
16:00to pieces,
16:01yet all he saw
16:02was her.
16:03I looked down
16:04at my broken body.
16:05The humiliation
16:06of being exiled
16:07from the heavenly realm
16:08years ago
16:08washing over me anew.
16:10A sphere of fire
16:11ignited in
16:12Aetherian's palm,
16:13ready to strike me down.
16:14But before he could
16:15cast it,
16:16a blinding beam
16:17of white light
16:18shot from the distance.
16:19I didn't see
16:20who cast it
16:20before the world
16:21went black.
16:21I don't know
16:22how long I was out,
16:23but I woke up
16:24in a massive,
16:25sunlit bed.
16:26I shifted my limbs.
16:28The agonizing
16:29heaviness was gone.
16:30The burns
16:31from the heavenly
16:31lightning had vanished
16:32without a trace.
16:33But what truly
16:34shocked me
16:35was the power
16:36stirring deep
16:36within my soul.
16:37It felt as though
16:38an ancient entity
16:39inside me
16:40was slowly opening
16:41its eyes.
16:42The last thing
16:43I remembered
16:43was Assyrian
16:44preparing to execute me.
16:45Why was I perfectly fine
16:47lying in this lavish palace?
16:49I bolted upright
16:50in shock.
16:51A man in flowing
16:52white robes
16:52wearing a crown
16:53of golden laurel leaves
16:55walked into the room.
16:56Seeing me awake,
16:57his face lit up
16:58and he pulled me
16:59into a tight embrace.
17:00Serafina,
17:01you're finally awake.
17:02Does anything hurt?
17:04I stared at him
17:05in bewilderment.
17:06Realizing my confusion,
17:07he offered
17:08a fond,
17:09indulgent smile
17:10and gently flicked
17:11my forehead.
17:11A flood of memories
17:12that didn't belong to me
17:14crashed into my mind.
17:15When I was expelled
17:16from the heavenly realm
17:17three centuries ago,
17:18a single tear
17:19I left behind
17:20drifted to the steps
17:21of this very palace.
17:22The domain
17:23of the primordial god Orion.
17:25The tear transformed
17:26into a tiny,
17:27ethereal serpent
17:28made of light.
17:29Orion kept
17:29the little light snake
17:30as a pet.
17:31Over the last 300 years,
17:33bathed in the spiritual energy
17:34of a primordial god,
17:36the serpent slowly
17:37took on my physical form.
17:38Orion had offered
17:40to reconstruct
17:40a proper physical body
17:41for her.
17:42But she refused.
17:44Because a Tyrion
17:45had cloaked my aura
17:46in the underworld,
17:47Orion couldn't locate me.
17:50Thank you
17:51for treating me
17:52with such care.
17:53But I am not her.
17:54I cannot stay here.
17:56I tried to pull away.
17:57He leaned in
17:58and kissed me fiercely.
18:00The sensation
18:00was dizzying
18:01of the serpent's
18:02desperate longing
18:03and my own
18:04instinctive resistance.
18:05I didn't know
18:06whether to push him away
18:07or kiss him back.
18:08He kissed me
18:09until my mind went blank.
18:11He suddenly froze,
18:12he pulled back,
18:14chest heaving.
18:15I'm sorry.
18:16I forgot you just gave birth.
18:18Your body is still recovering.
18:20I rushed this.
18:22Focus on healing first.
18:23I hastily pulled my robes up,
18:25but a wave of profound gratitude
18:27washed over me.
18:28Unlike a Tyrion,
18:29Orion understood boundaries.
18:31I was desperate
18:32to regain my strength
18:33so I could exact my revenge.
18:35Seeing my urgency,
18:36Orion literally extracted
18:37his own divine power
18:39and infused it
18:39into my veins.
18:41He fed me
18:41countless celestive herbs.
18:43Within a week,
18:4430 to 40%
18:45of my original power
18:46had returned.
18:47More importantly,
18:48the dormant power
18:49of fate inside me
18:50was slowly awakening.
18:51Just as I was
18:52plotting my revenge
18:53on my ex-husband,
18:54Serevius,
18:55the bastard
18:56delivered himself
18:56to my doorstep.
18:57Serafina,
18:58my beautiful fiancé.
19:00It was my father
19:01who forced me
19:02to take your septer that day.
19:03There hasn't been
19:03a single day
19:04in the last 300 years
19:05that I haven't thought of you.
19:07Will you return
19:08to the heavenly realm
19:08and be my queen?
19:09He put on a masterful
19:10display of remorse,
19:11but my heart felt
19:12nothing but venomous hatred.
19:14I knew exactly
19:15what had happened.
19:16He stole the Scepter of Dawn
19:17to murder his own father
19:18and seize the throne.
19:20No one forced him.
19:21It was his choice.
19:22He knew I was suffering
19:23in the underworld
19:24for three centuries,
19:25yet he never once
19:26came looking for me.
19:28He was only here
19:29because he sensed
19:30my power growing.
19:31The Scepter of Dawn
19:32was reacting
19:33to its true master,
19:34and he was losing
19:35control of it.
19:36I was going to make him
19:37pay for the humiliation
19:38of my exile
19:38and the 300 years
19:40of torture
19:40in the underworld.
19:41Today,
19:42even if it cost me
19:43my life,
19:44I would have my revenge.
19:45Gripping the Starforged sword
19:46Orion had given me,
19:48I charged.
19:49Serevus stood his ground,
19:50a sickeningly arrogant
19:51smirk playing on his lips.
19:52He knew my body
19:53was still weak,
19:54and I didn't have
19:54the seppler.
19:55His little apology speech
19:56was just a formality.
19:58He wanted to coax me back
19:59without a fight
19:59so he could torture me
20:00behind closed doors.
20:01During the clash,
20:02he tactically forced me backward,
20:04driving us down
20:05toward the mortal realm.
20:07The mortal world
20:08had no divine oversight,
20:09with his countless legions
20:11killing me quietly
20:13down there
20:13with child's play.
20:14Just as Serevus
20:15moved in for the kill,
20:17a blinding golden light
20:18struck the earth.
20:20Orion materialized
20:21out of thin air,
20:22throwing a protective arm
20:23in front of me.
20:24Serephina,
20:25leave this filth to me.
20:27Don't dirty your hands.
20:28His divine arima
20:30erupted like a tidal ray.
20:32Even as the heavenly god king,
20:34wielding two elemental
20:35stepsels,
20:36Serevus could barely
20:37hold his ground
20:38against the primordial god.
20:40Taking advantage
20:41of the distraction,
20:42I closed my eyes,
20:43reaching out
20:44with the threads
20:44of my returning power
20:45to summon the seppler of dawn
20:47from within Serevus' chest.
20:49Serevus gasped,
20:51clupping his heart
20:52as he frantically
20:52tried to repress the weapon,
20:54but it was useless.
20:55The scepter ripped its way
20:56out of his chest
20:57and flew into my waiting hand,
20:59radiating a familiar,
21:00scorching warmth.
21:01The moment my fingers
21:03closed around the hilt,
21:04an explosive shockwave
21:05of light leveled
21:06the battlefield.
21:07It was singing for me.
21:08So what if you're
21:09the god king?
21:10You touch my woman.
21:11You pay the ultimate price.
21:13With a mere flick
21:14of his finger,
21:15Orion yanked
21:16the second artifact,
21:17the scepter of thunder,
21:18straight out of
21:19Serevus' body.
21:20It floated in the air,
21:21humming with trapped lightning.
21:23Your woman?
21:25Serevus choked out,
21:26his eyes wide with horror
21:27as his body
21:28ill-voluntarily
21:29dropped to its knees.
21:30She is my fiancée.
21:31Before he could finish,
21:33his divine form shattered,
21:34reverting to his true,
21:35pathetic shape,
21:36a plucked, golden crow.
21:38You murdered your wife
21:39and slaughtered your father.
21:40You deserve worse than death.
21:42With a sweeping gesture,
21:43he swatted the miserable bird over,
21:45the edge of the bottomless abyss.
21:47Serafina,
21:48let's go home.
21:49The apples in the sanctuary orchard
21:51are ripe.
21:51I'll pick the sweetest ones for you.
21:53He pulled me into his arms,
21:55gazing at me
21:56with overwhelming tendness.
21:58I was moved
21:59by how fiercely he protected me,
22:01but my body
22:01still instinctively tent.
22:03I wasn't used to
22:04this kind of intimacy.
22:05In the brief moment
22:06I had summoned the septal,
22:07I caught Orion glancing at me
22:08from the corner of his eye.
22:10It was a dark,
22:11complicated look,
22:12one I couldn't quite decipher.
22:13But regardless,
22:15he had just eradicated
22:16Saravius.
22:17He had helped me
22:18extract my revenge.
22:19I cast one last look
22:21towards the heavenly realm,
22:22a silent goodbye
22:23to my past.
22:24That night,
22:25back in Orion's sanctuary,
22:27my sleace plagued
22:28by violent nightmares.
22:29It started peacefully,
22:31my clan dancing
22:32and singing around a bonfire.
22:34Then,
22:34the world warped into hell.
22:36Severed limbs
22:37and fountains of blood
22:38flooded my vision.
22:39Sister, save me!
22:40Auntie, it hurts!
22:42The screams of my family
22:43tore through my skull.
22:44I shot up in bed,
22:45screaming,
22:46drenched in a cold sweat.
22:48A familiar voice
22:49broke through the panic.
22:50My lady,
22:50don't be afraid.
22:51It's just a nightmare.
22:53I blinked against the darknesses.
22:55It was Iris.
22:56How did you get to the sanctuary?
22:58Aetherian actually let you leave?
22:59Her eyes were red,
23:00her voice thick with tears.
23:02I missed you so much,
23:03my lady.
23:04I begged the lord
23:05on my knees to let me go.
23:07When he heard
23:08I was coming to find you,
23:09he didn't stop me.
23:09She gently wiped the sweat
23:11from my forehead
23:12and offered me a cup of hot tea,
23:14carefully bringing it to my lips.
23:15Just as the rim touched my mouth,
23:17a memory sparked in my mind.
23:19By the way,
23:20when my uncle was injured
23:21by the Hydra,
23:22I heard you took care of him
23:23for three years
23:24before he recovered.
23:25I saw him in my dream just now.
23:27He said he misses you.
23:29Iris froze.
23:30A flicker of panic
23:31crossed her eyes
23:32before she nodded vigorously.
23:34I miss him every day, too.
23:36If Saravis hadn't been so cruel
23:37and banished our people,
23:39I could go back
23:39and see him right now.
23:41I stared into her eyes.
23:42They were beautiful,
23:43but entirely devoid of life.
23:46I backhanded the cup,
23:47splashing the scalding tea
23:48directly into her face.
23:49My uncle was killed
23:50instantly by the Titan gods!
23:53You never took care of him
23:55for three years!
23:56You're not Iris!
23:58As the enchanted tea
23:59burned her skin,
24:00thick green smoke
24:01blowed from her face.
24:03When the smoke cleared,
24:04it revealed Lyra's
24:05grotesquely scarred visilage.
24:07She threw her head back
24:09and cackled.
24:10Iris has been dead for weeks!
24:12The moment she helped you escape,
24:14I threw her into
24:15the Abyss of Shadows!
24:16A pathetic little handmaid.
24:18She couldn't even survive
24:20the lightest torture.
24:21I flag her alive.
24:22She died screaming.
24:24It's a shame you saw
24:25through my disguise.
24:26I was going to trick you
24:28into coming back to the underworld
24:29to butcher you properly.
24:31You pathetic bitch!
24:32I really underestimated you!
24:34Rage and grief blinded me.
24:36My hands shook violently.
24:38Iris had only survived
24:39the Heavenly Realm's purge
24:41because she had sneaked down
24:42to the mental world to play.
24:43Aethrian had moved mountains
24:45to find her and bring her to me.
24:47She was the very last
24:48of my bloodline.
24:49Unleashing my full divine power,
24:51I seized Lyra by the throat
24:53and dragged her out
24:53towards the Sanctuary's
24:54Judgment Cliff.
24:56Everything you did to me
24:57in the Abyss of Shadows
24:58plus Iris' life!
25:00Today, you pay it all back
25:02in blood!
25:03Oh my goodness!
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