Born weak, rejected, and marked as a failure, a broken hatcher survives in a brutal world where only the strongest creatures rule. But after awakening a terrifying devouring power, he begins an unstoppable rise fueled by revenge, evolution, and survival. Primal Devourer: The Broken Hatcher's Rise delivers epic fantasy battles, monster evolution, dark secrets, supernatural power struggles, and intense action in one addictive adventure. Watch the full movie now and witness the rise of a creature destined to dominate everything in its path.
#PrimalDevourerTheBrokenHatchersRise #DarkFantasy #MonsterEvolution #FantasyAction #FullMovie #MiniDrama #EpicFantasy #SupernaturalDrama #ActionFantasy
#ShortDrama #MicroDrama #ShortDramaFullMovie #MicroDramaFull #VerticalDrama #MiniSeries #DramaFullMovie #RomanticDrama #RevengeDrama #TrendingDrama #BingeWatch #FullEpisode #ShortFilm #DramaSeries #ViralDrama
#PrimalDevourerTheBrokenHatchersRise #DarkFantasy #MonsterEvolution #FantasyAction #FullMovie #MiniDrama #EpicFantasy #SupernaturalDrama #ActionFantasy
#ShortDrama #MicroDrama #ShortDramaFullMovie #MicroDramaFull #VerticalDrama #MiniSeries #DramaFullMovie #RomanticDrama #RevengeDrama #TrendingDrama #BingeWatch #FullEpisode #ShortFilm #DramaSeries #ViralDrama
Catégorie
🎥
Court métrageTranscription
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.
00:14No one helped. No one noticed. When the shell finally cracks to reveal the air of Yormonkar, the rarest bloodline
00:20in a millennium, suddenly, everyone wants a piece of what I've made. The blonde girl claims him. My mentor backs
00:26her up. Three seniors corner me, forcing me to give him up. And my lintworm? He just stands there, saying
00:31nothing.
00:32Aurelia 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.
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, dull, gray-white, without a trace of light. Archmaster Maldus gave me a side
01:02-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. I turned down
01:16every field trial, missed three ascension rites and four tower galas.
01:20I read every lintworm-hatching record in the grand library. I learned to scrape the absolute bottom of my magical
01:25core when utterly exhausted.
01:27Seven 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.
01:34After that, he never chose to see me again. He became Aurelia's shadow. She practiced the sword. He played the
01:41harp by her side. She 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 apprentice block my path. Lysander stands next to them. He says it to my face.
01:55Aurelia 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!
02:03The 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. Face
02:15reality. Dragging this out only makes you a laughingstock.
02:17You two were never a match. Orlando 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. The heir of Jormangel is destined for the highest nobility, and Auraria is a daughter
02:34of the phoenix. It's fate.
02:37The whole tower is dying to celebrate their bond ceremony. Standing in their way just disgraces you.
02:42Word after word, sentence after sentence. Then they just wait in Lysander, waiting for my tears.
02:47He turns his head. Won'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.
02:59And now they demand I hand him over. If he will not keep faith, then he forfeits the right to
03:04exist.
03:05The 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.
03:12Those amber eyes, always so arrogant, widen in shock and pain.
03:16Vesper, you, what did you...
03:18He stares at me, really stares, as if the wound had finally taught him where to look.
03:22I steady my grip, twisting the blade deeper. The meteorite edge crushes his core into dust.
03:27Not a chance of survival. Archmage Melduz mentioned it in a lecture once.
03:31The nine lives of a Lindworm? Just a myth.
03:34But the core? That's their fatal weakness.
03:36At 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.
03:48Lysander tries to speak. He only chokes on blood.
03:51The light leaves his eyes. His body hits the floor.
03:54He shifts back to his true form, a massive silver-white serpent.
03:58Its scales go dull at once, stripped of all their glory.
04:00It coils across the floor, taking up half the room.
04:03I don't blink. I watch until he stops twitching.
04:07I rip the dagger out. Walk to the center of the room.
04:10Drop to my knees. I start carving into the floor.
04:13Deep in the tower's restricted vault lies a book, The Chronicle of Primal Blood Rites.
04:17I copied a page from it in secret and hid it in my room, studying it in silence for seven
04:21years.
04:22The Devourer's Gift. A 3,000-year-old taboo.
04:25No tools required. No setup needed.
04:28Just one caster. And one formidable sacrifice.
04:31I finish the last rune. I slice my fingertip open.
04:34Let the blood drip into the center.
04:36I drag Lysander's corpse into the circle.
04:38My blood spreads out. It lights up every carved line.
04:41The whole array blazes with dark gold light.
04:43I've never seen a color like it.
04:45But every vein in my body hums.
04:47Lysander's serpent form lights up.
04:48First the scales. Then the muscles.
04:51Finally the bones.
04:52Everything breaks down. Bit by bit.
04:55It melts into threads of dark gold energy.
04:57Ripped straight from his corpse.
04:59Flowing right into me.
05:00The threads sink through my skin.
05:02Hook into my bloodstream.
05:04The moment the first thread enters, something explodes in my head.
05:07A memory that isn't mine.
05:08Locked deep in my soul since the day I was born.
05:11It cracks wide open.
05:12I see a creature.
05:14It eats stars.
05:15Swallows light.
05:16Devours the laws of reality.
05:18It has existed since the beginning of the world.
05:20The first predator.
05:21The primal devourer.
05:23I always thought I was worthless.
05:25My magic was pathetically weak.
05:26Ever since I entered the tower at 12.
05:28I ranked at the bottom.
05:30I thought I was born broken.
05:32But now I realize I was wrong.
05:33Basic magic is useless to me.
05:35Everything the tower taught me is worthless.
05:38Something in me had lain dormant since birth.
05:40Seal behind an appetite no ordinary magic could feed.
05:43Lysander, the heir of Jormungandr.
05:45The only sacrifice to break the seal in 3000 years.
05:48I smile.
05:49So that is the truth.
05:51Lysander's body vanishes completely.
05:53Every drop of his energy floods my veins.
05:55The shackles that 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.
06:03All that's left is a dry ritual ray and a pool of blood.
06:06Not a single trace of Lysander.
06:08Like he never existed at all.
06:10I rise to my feet and roll my wrist.
06:13My joints crack.
06:14The door bangs open.
06:16Maldus stands in the doorway.
06:17Arolyia cowers behind him, eyes red and body shaking.
06:20She clutches her golden phoenix.
06:22The three seniors flank them, faces pale with terror.
06:25How could you?
06:26You killed him and then you devoured him!
06:28She breaks down sobbing.
06:31Maldus unleashes his full Archmaster era across the room.
06:34Vesper, what you did in this room defiles the tower.
06:38Yet you also performed a forbidden ritual.
06:41By my authority you are cast out and remounded to the abyss.
06:45His power crashes down on me.
06:46Seven years ago, this would have crushed me.
06:49But now, I'm an archmage.
06:51I hold the power of the primal devourer.
06:53I straighten and meet his gaze.
06:55Killing my bonded creature?
06:57Mentor Lysander wasn't a human.
06:59He was a familiar.
07:00I hatched him from a shell seven years ago.
07:02Tower Code Volume 7 Chapter 3 Section 11.
07:05A familiar's life belongs to its hatcher.
07:07Your language, not mine.
07:09Maldus chokes on his own words.
07:11Aurelia suddenly cuts in, tears already gathering as if on command.
07:15Her voice trembles with practiced grief.
07:17Even if he was just a familiar, you were together for seven years.
07:21Do you feel nothing?
07:23He was the heir of Jormagon.
07:25That bloodline was irreplaceable and you just destroyed it.
07:29Irreplaceable or not, he was mine.
07:30He wanted to go with someone else, so I killed him.
07:33I glare at her.
07:34You care an awful lot about what belongs to other people.
07:37Do other people's belongings always catch your eye?
07:39Aurelia goes white.
07:41The phoenix in her arm struggles.
07:43She grips it tighter.
07:44The bird pecks at her wrist.
07:46How dare you!
07:47Maldus snaps.
07:48He knows I have him cornered on the rules.
07:50But Aurelia's tears matter more than his own laws.
07:53He cannot accuse me of murdering a familiar, so he pivots.
07:56Fine.
07:57The familiar was yours.
07:58But your mindset is dangerous.
08:00You performed a forbidden ritual.
08:01You have shown open malice towards Aurelia.
08:04Someone like you is a threat to this tower.
08:05I sentence you to three years in the abyss.
08:08The three seniors actually flinch.
08:11The abyss.
08:11The deepest forbidden zone beneath the tower.
08:14Toxic magic.
08:15Poisoned air.
08:17Feral beasts.
08:18Most apprentices don't last three weeks down there.
08:20So that is a sentence.
08:22Death.
08:22Draped in formal language.
08:23A flash of satisfaction crosses Aurelia's eyes.
08:26Then she fakes a worried look.
08:28Mentor.
08:29Surely there is another punishment.
08:31The abyss will kill her.
08:32Please.
08:33Not that.
08:34Her mouth says the words.
08:35Her feet don't move an inch.
08:37My word is final.
08:39Take her away.
08:41The tower guards step forward.
08:43I will walk on my own.
08:44I head for the entrance.
08:46Passing Aurelia.
08:47I stop.
08:48I lean in and drop my voice to a whisper just for her.
08:50Hold that bird close.
08:52I may decide I'm hungry.
08:55Aurelia freezes.
08:57She hugs her bird tighter.
08:58Pure terror in her eyes.
09:00I walk to the edge of the abyss.
09:02Black mist rolls up from the dark below.
09:04I jump in.
09:05And let the abyss swallow me whole.
09:07I hit the bottom of the abyss.
09:09Blood.
09:10Rot.
09:10The stench from hundreds of feral beasts.
09:13Old bones under my boots.
09:14Green eyes flashing in the shadows.
09:16Growls echoing from every direction.
09:18The primal devourer in my veins wakes up instantly.
09:21It feels no fear.
09:22Only hunger.
09:23A forbidden zone looks more like a grand feast.
09:27I crack a smile.
09:28I crack a smile.
09:28A spike armored boar charges first.
09:30Bone plates hard as steel.
09:32Tusk's meant to shred metal.
09:33I don't even use magic.
09:35I sidestep.
09:36Drive my bare fist into its ribs.
09:38Crack.
09:39The boar slams into the rock wall.
09:41Bone gives way.
09:42It dies instantly.
09:43The devourer doesn't just give me magic.
09:46It remakes my body.
09:47I press my palm to the boar's chest.
09:49Dark gold breads rip from its corpse into me.
09:51Core.
09:52Bloodline.
09:53Energy.
09:53I take it all.
09:54The corpse crumbles into an empty husk.
09:56Not a bad start?
09:57Over the next few days.
09:59I hunt my way through the abyss.
10:01Shadow panthers give me speed.
10:03Rock shell lizards leave toughness in my bones.
10:05Toxic bog toads try their poison on me.
10:07And my blood devours that too.
10:08The magical concentration is higher than I expected.
10:11I stalk through the abyss like an apex predator.
10:14Grating my prey.
10:15Everything in my path runs for its life.
10:17My power surges to Archmage, level 2.
10:20Every day, I grow stronger.
10:21I just killed a two-headed wind serpent.
10:23As I reach for its core, I sense movement above.
10:26I hide my aura.
10:28Melt into the shadows.
10:29Up on a rock ledge.
10:31Maldus, Aurelia, and the three seniors.
10:33Standing inside Maldus' protective ward.
10:36Without it, the toxic air would destroy their lungs in minutes.
10:39Aurelia 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.
10:49Do you think she's even alive?
10:50I'm worried for her.
10:51She's resilient.
10:52She'll survive.
10:53A little suffering might finally teach her her place.
10:58Aurelia strokes as her bird's feathers.
11:01That's a relief.
11:02It is still such a tragedy that his bloodline was lost.
11:05If he were still here, my phoenix could have joined with him.
11:08Their 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.
11:15Lysandar was rare, yes.
11:17But your phoenix is pure blood.
11:18Its future reaches even higher.
11:20Exactly.
11:21Vesper is selfish and cruel.
11:22She killed Lysandar.
11:23What a loss to the whole tower.
11:25You have a heart of gold.
11:27Stop wasting your pity on her.
11:28Aurelia nods softly.
11:30Then, she raises her voice.
11:32I just think, maybe she's broken down, lost her way.
11:35If she just came out and apologized, Lysandar is gone.
11:39But Mentor is generous.
11:41He'd give her a second chance.
11:42She doesn't have to suffer here.
11:43From the shadows, I listen and wait.
11:46The phoenix breaks free from Aladia's arms.
11:48It spreads its wings and dives for my dead serpent.
11:51Pure arrogance in its eyes.
11:52It thinks the kill is unclaimed.
11:54A glowing golden light trails from its claws as it swoops down.
11:57So it comes down after all.
11:59Before its talons hit the serpent, I burst out of the shadows.
12:02The phoenix senses danger.
12:04Tries to pull away.
12:06Too late.
12:07My right hand snaps around its throat.
12:08Its screech cuts off.
12:10It 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?
12:18Let him go!
12:19Let him go!
12:20Vestor!
12:22Don't you dare!
12:23I slowly tighten my grip.
12:26I look up at their faces.
12:29Everyone is frozen solid.
12:30Your bird came to steal my kill.
12:32Why shouldn't I take it?
12:34Snap!
12:34Its neck cracks cleanly under my grip.
12:37The phoenix goes limp.
12:38The light in its eyes dies.
12:40The golden glow fades.
12:41I toss it in the dirt.
12:42Aurelia's scream rips through the abyss.
12:44Her face turns white.
12:46Her knees buckle.
12:47Cedric barely catches her before she falls to the ground.
12:50My phoenix!
12:51You really killed him!
12:53Tears spill over.
12:54Her finger points at me.
12:55No sweetness now.
12:56Only hatred.
12:57He was my destined mate!
12:59How dare you!
13:00How dare you!
13:01Mentor!
13:02She killed Lysaner!
13:03And now she killed my phoenix!
13:05Aurelia throws herself at Maldus' feet.
13:08Maldus' face shifts from cold indifference to murderous fury.
13:11That phoenix was a pureblood.
13:13Handpicked for Aurelia.
13:14Raised on the tower's premium resources.
13:17Years of investment.
13:18Worth far more than Lysander had ever been.
13:20The cornerstone of his entire master plan for Aurelia, and the student he cast into the
13:24abyss to die, has just snapped its neck as if it were nothing.
13:27His archmaced aura explodes.
13:29His magic pours out.
13:30A giant hand made of raw arc power hangs above me.
13:32It 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.
13:39The pressure already cracks my bones.
13:41The primal devourer roars awake.
13:43I dig my heels in to hold my ground.
13:45I look up at him.
13:46Grind my soul?
13:47For a phoenix?
13:48Mentor, am I not your student, Toos?
13:50Seven years of questions boiling over.
13:52Something flickers across his face.
13:54It vanishes.
13:54Buried by absolute rage.
13:56Shut up!
13:56You murdered your bonded beast!
13:58You slaughtered your sister's familiar!
14:00And now you play the victim?
14:01She wanted Lysaner.
14:02You forced me to give him up.
14:04Her bird swoops in to steal my kill.
14:06And now you 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?
14:14Because her tears matter more?
14:15Because she's the chosen one in your eyes?
14:17Then what am I?
14:18You pulled me out of an orphanage.
14:20Was this the plan all along?
14:21Was I just a 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.
14:29Everyone knows.
14:30It's an open secret.
14:31But no one ever ripped it open and forced them to face it.
14:34Aurelia stops sobbing.
14:36Her eyes dart around, showing the fear of being exposed.
14:39Muldrus's face twists.
14:40My words strike a nerve he refuses to face.
14:43Taking me from the orphanage might have started as real pity.
14:45But year after year, beside Elyria's talent and fortune, my mediocre gifts lost all value
14:49to him.
14:49My worth had been decided long ago.
14:51Whatever served Elyria best.
14:52And now, the tool in his hand has turned on him.
14:55Silver tongue.
14:56Twisted fact.
14:57His tone is hard.
14:58Merciless.
14:59He 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?
15:05It burns out completely.
15:06Then as of today, I owe neither you nor this tower anything.
15:09We are done.
15:10Done?
15:10You think a lowest rank apprentice gets to decide when this ends?
15:13This abyss is your grave.
15:14The magic hand glows brighter.
15:16The power spikes.
15:17Enough 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.
15:24My eyes lock on the phoenix corpse.
15:26Broken neck.
15:27Fainted gold.
15:27The primal devourer roars with hunger.
15:29This pure blood core is stronger than Lysiater's.
15:32No time for a full ritual.
15:33I grab the bird and shove it against my chest.
15:35Dark gold threads rip out of the corpse.
15:37They flood straight into me.
15:38Pure phoenix essence explodes in my body.
15:40Every vein burns.
15:42My power surges.
15:43Archmaster level 3.
15:44Level 4.
15:45Peak.
15:46Three leaps.
15:47Three heartbeats.
15:47Maldius's magic hand is still dropping.
15:49I lift my head.
15:50I point a single finger.
15:51Dark gold energy pools at the tip.
15:53It isn't magic.
15:54It's the devourer's source.
15:56Older.
15:57Stronger than everything.
15:58I flick my finger.
15:59Maldius's peak archmist attack shatters like glass breaking from within.
16:02Soundless.
16:03Everything fades into a thousand specks of light glistening across the abyss.
16:07The abyss falls silent.
16:08Five faces staring down at me.
16:10I'll never forget their expressions.
16:12It's the look people wear when their world shatters before their eyes.
16:15I don't hesitate.
16:16I launch myself from the bottom onto the ledge.
16:18Cedric.
16:19A blast of dark gold energy slams them into the rock wall.
16:22They go limp before they hit the ground.
16:23Aurelia crashes to the dirt.
16:25Paralyzed by fear.
16:26Maldus 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.
16:32He 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.
16:39Three years older.
16:39You adopted her from a top-tier noble family the year before.
16:42You said she had the phoenix mark.
16:44A once-in-a-century prodigy.
16:45Seven years.
16:47I woke up two hours early every day to study.
16:49She slept in.
16:50I stayed up four hours late every night to research.
16:52She went to galas.
16:53In every magical trial, I placed at the absolute leg top.
16:56You said she never even sat for an event.
16:57Seven years hatching and you tossing me like rubbish.
16:59I hatched into the air of Yorma Mangahar.
17:00And today?
17:01Today you tried to kill me for her phoenix.
17:03Maldus's lips tremble.
17:05Vesta, 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, thread 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, affinity, rank.
17:30I leave him breathing.
17:31For a man like Maldus, life 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 whom?
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.
17:57And then there's Maldus.
17:57A few bounds up the abbess 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 abbess.
18:10Do we have an intruder?
18:11If the archmist is handling it himself, we should be fine.
18:13I drop from the air, holding a dead bird in one hand, pouring out massive dark power without restraint.
18:19Is that Vesper?
18:21She got out of the abbess?
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 and 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, getting ready to take me down.
18:56Don't believe me?
18:57Go look.
18:59He's on the edge of the abbess.
19:00If you hurry, you might just save his life.
19:02They feel my power.
19:03That cannot be faked.
19:05As for the rest of you, I glare at the mentors, especially 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 Tivadar and the other two mentors who approved my sentence shatter, piece by piece.
19:18One by one, they collapse onto the ground, out cold.
19:21Silence.
19:21Even the senior mentors don't have time to lift a finger.
19:24As of today, the Tower of Ashes belongs to me.
19:26If any among you object, step forward.
19:29No one.
19:30No one bows.
19:31But the first one drops his head.
19:33Then the second.
19:34The 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.
19:43Her dress is torn to shreds.
19:45Covered in dirt and blood.
19:47She drops to her knees.
19:49No fake tears this time.
19:51Please.
19:51I was wrong.
19:52Just 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.
20:14I'll give up the title.
20:15Daughter of the Phoenix.
20:17I cut her off and crouched down so we are eye to eye.
20:20Do 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 your familiar hatches, he'll take care of you.
20:36Did you mean any away vit?
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 Muldris preaching about Avodia, the daughter of the Phoenix, the Tower's Golden
20:57Hope.
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.
21:08You said adequate.
21:10Then you spent 20 minutes praising Elaria for picking a lavender in the garden.
21:14At 16, I volunteered for a beast hunt on the Ebis Rim.
21:17You said Avradia was a better candidate.
21:19She backed out.
21:21Said she had a headache.
21:22The hunt got cancelled.
21:23You never brought my name up again.
21:25Those 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
21:56fair treatment.
21:57You created the monster standing in front of you.
21:59Utter silence.
22:00Just Auraria'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 beasts
22:27to 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, section 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.
Commentaires