00:08The river's place! It is up ahead!
00:19The pursuers are less than three miles away!
00:23By 3,000 riders!
00:24All gone! All gone!
00:27As long as we're alive, it is not over!
00:56Bladesmith! Territory!
01:00Back!
01:04Let's go! Find Mr. Rivers!
01:14Hold Mr. Rivers! Please lend us a blade!
01:21I am Arthur Snow of Greymoor! The world is in chaos! I don't lack soldiers, not generals, nor courage! What
01:30I lack is a blade to wield the Emperor's fate! I will make this world mine!
01:34I am Leonard Whizemore of Northvale! Old sir! I am not here to conquer the world! Northvale is a harsh
01:40land! It freezes every year! Our crops fail! Our people eat grass roots! They strip bark and trade children for
01:46food! I have 100,000 soldiers! But I have no food! I have a vast domain! But nothing grows in
01:51the fields! I want the people of Northvale to have enough to eat!
01:56I am Henry Hanley of Southmark!
02:00My 3,000 riders! We're wiped out at Maple Fort three days ago! I escaped! I was the only one!
02:07My 3,000 brothers! The youngest was just 16! The night before we left, his mother chased us for miles!
02:13Just to give him two boiled eggs! I want my 3,000 brothers back!
02:16I am Edward Hawk of Stonefield! Old sir! I am not here for the throne! Stonefield City! 37,000 women!
02:22Children! And the elderly! We've been out of food for 7 days! The general is already discussing surrender! When the
02:28city falls, all men will be killed! The women will be made camp followers! The children will be sold! I
02:33don't want to be Emperor! I just want those 37,000 people! To live! To see! Next! Spring!
02:39Old Mr. Rivers! Please lend us a blade!
02:46Old Mr. Rivers!
03:02Alright!
03:18This is the Fortune Blade! It controls the world's wealth! Whoever wields it will gain endless gold and rival kingdoms!
03:25In 15 years, if your granaries are full, return this blade to me and your Whitmore descendants will give me
03:31half their fortune!
03:32This is the Fate Blade! This is the Fate Blade! It controls life and death! Whoever wields it can extend
03:38life and raise the dead! In 15 years, if you are not fated to die, return this blade to me!
03:43To save your people, you must die in their place!
03:47This is the Heart Blade! This is the Heart Blade! It controls faith and love! Whoever wields it will find
03:52love and ensure their lineage! In 15 years, when your debt is paid, return this blade and you! You said
03:59you'd make the world yours! Your ambition is too great! There is no blade here for you! Leave!
04:15Finally! We've waited so long for this day!
04:18Three years ago, the late Emperor died! The Four Realms all thought our Southland was finished! Who could have guessed
04:22that the Grand Princess, all by herself, would save the realm!
04:24Now we must call her your majesty!
04:32Not to brag, but of the Four Realms, the most stable now is our Southland! The Empress's glory is eternal!
04:38I heard that! After her coronation, her top priority is choosing an Imperial consort!
04:41Look at the man behind the Empress! That is Quentin the Scholar!
04:45He is the Empress's most trusted confidant!
04:48More than a confidant! How many officials can be like him, staying by her side day and night?
04:53They're a perfect match! A match made in heaven!
05:08Charles, you have the doomed star fate! Only a woman with a phoenix destiny can save you!
05:13Fifteen years ago, Arthur Snow of Greymoor, Southland, took a blade from me on credit!
05:19His granddaughter has the phoenix destiny!
05:21Father!
05:24Do I have to collect this debt?
05:25You don't have to!
05:27But if you don't, when your curse mark shatters, your soul will be scattered!
05:31No one to bury you! No grave! No marker!
05:35The River's Bladesmith lineage will end with you!
05:38The Millennial Bladesmith Pact is a vow! And a vow must be kept! Your choice!
05:51She is quite a stunner!
05:56Kneel!
05:58Oh, thank the Empress! Oh, thank the Empress! Oh, thank the Empress!
06:02Victoria! Snow!
06:05The Snow Family's debt to the Rivers is due!
06:15You say Southland owes the River's family a debt? What, that?
06:21A marriage!
06:22How dare you! What madman would dare! In the royal court! To insult the Empress!
06:27A marriage! I've been on the throne for half a day, and already someone's here to claim kinship!
06:31You've got perfect timing!
06:33His brow is sharp as a blade, his eyes are cold as frost!
06:35Unlike the others here, those obsequious officials, he is more like a wild crane from the mountains!
06:39Tell me, what is your rank? Where are you from? What is your fortune?
06:44No rank! From Westmore!
06:47Family tradition! That figures! A commoner! And you dare propose marriage to me?
06:53Fifteen years ago, your father wasn't emperor yet!
06:55When he knelt at our door, begging for a blade, he was just a warlord trapped in a single city!
07:00Living on borrowed time, or rather, a desperate, defeated dog!
07:05Your wealth and power today, this vast kingdom, your grandfather kneeled before my father, bowing his head, one by one,
07:11to earn it!
07:12How dare you!
07:13Calm yourself, your majesty!
07:15Young sir, you say the late emperor, made a pact with your family!
07:19What blade was it? What was the pact?
07:22Any witnesses? Any proof?
07:24And who are you?
07:25I am Quentin Drake!
07:27By her majesty's grace, I am the new imperial scholar!
07:30Never heard of you!
07:32Besides, with your status, you have no right to meddle in the rivers and snow family business!
07:38What did you say?
07:39Enough! Quentin is my most trusted minister!
07:42As for you, I've never heard of any bladesmith!
07:46Exactly! We've never heard of it!
07:48Southland's prosperity today, it is thanks to your majesty's tireless efforts and our unity!
07:54What does some bladesmith, or some damn bladesmith have to do with it?
07:58Say that again!
08:00Damn! Blade!
08:08Phew!
08:10I told you to say it!
08:11Then you did!
08:13Charles Rivers!
08:14We forge blades and make pacts!
08:16We keep our word and collect our debt!
08:18You never taught me to take it when someone calls me trash!
08:20You never said to hold back!
08:22Guards!
08:23Seize this madman!
08:32Hold on!
08:34I have proof!
08:37I have proof!
08:39What proof?
08:41That winter, your grandfather begged my father for the blade.
08:45He knelt at my door for an hour.
08:47Please! Old Mr. Rivers!
08:48Lend me the blade!
08:53I am begging you!
08:55Old Mr. Rivers!
08:56Lend me the blade!
08:59Sigh!
09:01Why must you do this?
09:04Old Mr. Rivers!
09:05If you won't lend me the blade, I won't get up!
09:07Please!
09:08Old Mr. Rivers!
09:09Lend me the blade!
09:09Fine!
09:10I'll lend you the blade.
09:12But there is one condition.
09:15Old Mr. Rivers!
09:16Please!
09:16Your granddaughter must be betrothed to my son.
09:20Do you agree?
09:21I agree!
09:22I agree!
09:23This is the Sovereign Blade.
09:25It holds the Imperial fate.
09:26Whoever wields it, can conquer all lands, stabilize the realm, and rule the people.
09:31In fifteen years, when the realm is settled, return this blade to me.
09:35When your granddaughter comes of age, my son will marry her.
09:38Thank you!
09:39Old Mr. Rivers!
09:40Thank you!
09:40Old Mr. Rivers!
09:41I was just a boy back then, but I heard it loud and clear.
09:45The sound of your grandfather's head hitting the ground.
09:47It was so sharp and powerful.
09:49Daphne, there is no faking that.
09:51Now, those two marks at my door, they're still there.
09:54Every time it rains, you can still see faint bloodstains.
09:58Want to go see for yourself?
09:59See how your grandfather knelt.
10:00How dare you!
10:01Charles Rivers!
10:02How dare you insult my grandfather!
10:04Did you believe I won't kill you right now?
10:07The late emperor's handwritten decree, your majesty.
10:10Do you recognize it or not?
10:13Debt!
10:14Unpaid!
10:15The realm!
10:15We'll fall!
10:16This!
10:16This is a curse on our realm!
10:18How dare you!
10:19The late emperor was a great ruler.
10:20He founded Southland and ruled for fifteen years.
10:22Who do you think you are?
10:23To insult the late emperor, you are just a beggar on your knees!
10:25A charlatan!
10:26Spreading fear!
10:26His heart deserves death!
10:28Why the rush?
10:29It is not your realm that is falling!
10:30Enough!
10:31My grandfather is not to be insulted by the likes of you who slander the late emperor!
10:35And speak treason!
10:36Drag him out and execute him by a thousand cuts!
10:39Victoria Snow, you don't believe the river's bladesmith.
10:42Then why did you hide the sovereign blade behind the plaque?
10:46What nonsense are you talking?
10:47What sovereign blade?
10:48I've never seen it!
10:51Look.
10:58Victoria.
11:00The story of the bladesmith.
11:04Do you remember it all?
11:06I remember grandpa!
11:08Grandpa!
11:08Please!
11:09Don't talk!
11:10Good!
11:10Remember it!
11:12The sovereign blade is hidden behind the plaque in the hall!
11:15Remember!
11:16If someone comes for the blade, you must, must honor the marriage pact!
11:21Do not wrong them!
11:23Or else!
11:28Grandpa!
11:29Grandpa!
11:34Grandpa, that debt is just too shameful.
11:37It is about Southland's honor.
11:39I have to make this decision myself.
11:41I can't acknowledge this.
11:44Ridiculous!
11:45I've never heard of this sovereign blade.
11:47Is it real?
11:48Take down the plaque and see.
11:50Take it down!
11:51You dare ask me to take it down!
11:53What?
11:54Afraid?
11:55Your Majesty?
11:56Then I'll get it myself.
11:58Blade.
11:59Come.
12:13This!
12:15This!
12:16Black magic!
12:17The blade flew to him!
12:21Any more doubts about the sovereign blade?
12:24Victoria Snow.
12:25Fifteen years ago, your grandfather took this blade from the Rivers family.
12:29At that moment, the Rivers Bladesmith's fate became tied to the Snow family and Southland's destiny.
12:34They are bound together.
12:35If you break the pact, the consequences will be unthinkable.
12:39That trick of yours, Charles, was quite a show.
12:42But have any of you heard of a kingdom's fate being tied to a worthless blade?
12:47You haven't heard of it because you are ignorant.
12:49You are long on hair, short on sense.
12:52I wonder how you became a top scholar.
12:54Was it through cheating?
12:56Charles Rivers, I am the chosen ruler.
12:59Throughout history, I am the first woman to sit on this throne.
13:05You are a lowly bladesmith.
13:07You could never threaten me.
13:09Southland's current strength was built by me, and the late emperor, and by the loyal efforts of my court.
13:14It has nothing to do with your Rivers Bladesmith.
13:17What a joke, nothing to do with it.
13:20The snows of Southland are just a bunch of ungrateful wretches.
13:24Victoria Snow, your grandfather knelt at our door and swore the pact himself.
13:29Are you going to break it?
13:30Charles Rivers, your words are just cheap tricks and sorcery.
13:34You slander the late emperor to fool the people.
13:36There is no pact to break.
13:39Southland and the Rivers family have never had a pact.
13:41I, Victoria Snow, for all eternity, will never have anything to do with you.
13:46Fine. For all eternity, huh?
13:49Only the binder can break the bond.
13:51You want to break the pact, then do it yourself.
13:53Break it with your blood.
13:55Dare you.
13:56What is to stop me?
14:04So, I broke the pact.
14:06So what?
14:07You broke the pact.
14:08Face the consequences.
14:10Really?
14:11But I don't see any consequences.
14:14Looks like you are just a con artist.
14:36I warned you.
14:38The consequences are the rules in common.
15:03the sky the pact is burning i am 67 years old never seen this
15:11late emperor his spirit is with us it is a warning
15:17your vow is broken from now on southland's fate the snow family's honor are no longer my
15:27concern the bladesmith lineage has a thousand year vow countless have made packs over the
15:35centuries you are the first to break one the thousand year fortune's backlash enjoy it
15:44what do you mean
15:49spell it out what do you mean exactly what i said
15:56stop do you think harmony hall is a joke and who do you think i am you come and go
16:00as you please
16:01you insulted the late emperor you hit a blade to harm the people you spread lies to disrupt the
16:06court and i haven't even punished you yet your majesty is wise he practiced witchcraft in the
16:10hall he defiled the hall with blood he deceived your majesty with lies he is still defiant even
16:15at death's door i implore you execute this sorcerer to uphold the court i second that if he is not
16:19executed it is an outrage we implore you execute this sorcerer guys
16:29what a fine way to honor his spirit with these pathetic losers they're all useless get him
17:04the sword sage the river sword master the sword sage impossible he is attacking me so you want to be
17:14the empress who destroys her realm
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