00:02Deep in the Atlantic, an ancient and mysterious race flourishes.
00:08Tonight, King Kyrian of the City of Kings will personally participate in the selection of a bride.
00:16Gentlemen are welcome to present floral garlands to their loved ones.
00:20Those without a garland will become a gift for the monarch from our City of Defenses.
00:29Kyrian, is he a bloodthirsty tyrant?
00:32Which unfortunate princess do you think will be chosen to serve the tyrant?
00:36Is that even a question? It's obviously the one that's least favored.
00:43Terran and I grew up together. Last night he said he would choose me to be my knight.
00:51Begin.
01:08The final ruth belongs to Princess Olin.
01:15Thank you, Terran.
01:22Why? We had a deal. He promised me the wreath.
01:24Because you must leave the Acropolis, Vayner. This place will soon become hell.
01:43Marrying that tyrant, she probably wouldn't survive the wedding night.
01:46A child born out of Weddock really thought she could soar to the top branch?
01:52Vayner, you should be proud. You have contributed to the peace of our family.
01:57I must escape.
02:05The candidate for the marriage.
02:07To be continued...
02:09I'm sorry.
02:18I'll kill you.
02:43My lord Kian, the choice is made.
02:45The girl is Vena.
02:46We offer her to you.
02:47Your name is Vena?
02:50Sunrise, she comes with me.
02:53One second late, I'll wipe this city off the map.
02:58Wipe it off the map?
03:00He'd really do it.
03:02He'd actually do it.
03:07It's Olin's coming of age tonight.
03:09I promised her a night she'd never forget.
03:11Your sacrifice brings honor to the reef.
03:15But after tonight, I'm getting shipped off to marry that monster.
03:23I'm so sorry, Vena.
03:25This is all my fault.
03:28Don't be silly, baby.
03:29That wreath was always yours.
03:31She was never worthy of it.
03:33If you really wanted it that bad, Vena, I could give it back.
03:38But it looks like you've got yourself a much prettier one from his lordship now, don't you?
03:46You know that's not what I...
03:54Look at you.
03:56Just look at yourself.
03:58You're a disgrace to this house.
04:03You're right.
04:03Enough.
04:05My lord.
04:06The girl.
04:07Vena.
04:08She's the one.
04:09The one you've been looking for.
04:17It's okay.
04:18I'm right here.
04:20Just breathe.
04:24Here.
04:25Take it.
04:26It was my mother's.
04:28It'll keep you safe.
04:29With this,
04:31just stay alive.
04:32What's your name?
04:34Vena.
04:35My name's Vena.
04:38My name's Vena.
04:43Finally.
04:44I found you.
04:45My savior.
04:55Listen to me.
04:56What I said out there, I had to.
04:58I needed you to hate me.
05:00So everyone could watch me get played for a fool?
05:05No.
05:06That you would leave
05:08before it turns into hell.
05:10And Olin?
05:18I don't love her.
05:19Then you're even worse than I thought.
05:21I love you, Vena.
05:22I always have.
05:23The wreath was meant for you.
05:25I bribed the Northgate guards.
05:26Before sunrise,
05:27I'll get you out.
05:28Trust me one more time.
05:31Don't.
05:32You don't mean that?
05:32I don't love you, Taryn.
05:33Not anymore.
05:34And after this,
05:35we can't even be friends.
05:36You made sure of that.
05:40Fine.
05:41Don't come crying to me
05:43when they come for you.
05:44You always have been.
05:49The wreath.
05:50The promise.
05:52Just a tool to save her life.
05:59You did well tonight, Olin.
06:01Taryn has given his word.
06:02Once Vena's marriage is settled,
06:04House Othrian
06:05will support us.
06:11Why, father?
06:13Why do you care so much about her?
06:14She's just a bastard.
06:20You don't understand.
06:22Her mother,
06:23she had power we couldn't control.
06:26Power that could destroy this family.
06:39Vena, I don't care who your mother was.
06:41I am the true heir.
06:43You'll see.
06:45In the end,
06:46you're nothing but a stray.
07:06I must leave.
07:07Then find a way to take what mother left me.
07:11Vena, stop!
07:13Get there.
07:14Out there,
07:15there are things you don't understand.
07:17Things that will destroy you.
07:22Please!
07:24Vena!
07:27Dangerous?
07:28More dangerous than marrying a tyrant?
07:49This power,
07:51it's mine.
08:08It seems someone wishes
08:10to break the marriage pact.
08:16The Acropolis waters
08:18are my domain, Kairion.
08:19I will not let you take her.
08:21Never!
08:23Your domain.
08:25All of Atlantis
08:26belongs to the Othian family.
08:28Whom I take
08:29requires no one's permission.
08:50No!
08:56I'll go with you.
09:00Not because of your threats.
09:02Because I don't want to become
09:03a monster like them.
09:04Those who keep saying,
09:05they're doing it for my good,
09:07yet sacrifice me
09:08as an offering
09:09at the last moment.
09:11And,
09:11you saw just now.
09:13There's something in me
09:14that I don't understand.
09:15I don't want to be dragged around
09:16by it like a blind woman.
09:17I want to master it,
09:18control it,
09:19own it.
09:30I don't blame you.
09:31I deserve this.
09:34But I won't give up!
09:41Why does she deserve it all?
09:52From this day forward,
09:54Verna of the Norris family
09:55is a guest of the royal city.
09:58No one shall treat her
10:00with disrespect.
10:08You're afraid of me.
10:10Should I not fear someone
10:11who treats me as a trophy?
10:13I've dug into your past.
10:15Illegitimate daughter of House Norris,
10:16your mother died young,
10:17your father couldn't care less.
10:18Your only inheritance,
10:19a palace overrun by sea demons.
10:21Do you want it back?
10:23How do you know all this?
10:25Because I wanted to know.
10:27I can give you an army
10:28to take back everything
10:30that's yours.
10:35Why?
10:36I've had my fill
10:37of simpleng princesses.
10:38I want a true queen.
10:40One who stands beside me,
10:41not cowering in my shadow.
10:43That rift is growing.
10:45I need a queen
10:45who can guard the rear,
10:46one who won't bury a blade
10:47in my back
10:48the moment I turn away.
10:49How do you know I won't?
10:54Because ten years ago
10:55you gave me your heart.
10:56Now I need you to unlock it
10:58with your own hands.
11:02If you live,
11:03you must come back for me.
11:07It was you.
11:09The injured little boy.
11:11I've tried countless times
11:12over the past decade.
11:19Call upon your strength.
11:31The injured little boy.
11:32Now I love you.
11:38I need you.
11:56Vayner, my love, I leave it to you.
12:13Sharing a soul weapon is the highest symbolic Kapokht in Atlantis, giving me half your life.
12:24I knew it the first moment I laid eyes on you.
12:27You're not some princess waiting to be saved.
12:30You're a beast waiting to be woken, just like me.
12:39Fine.
12:41I accept.
12:43I want an army.
12:45I want power to rival the queen of a century ago.
12:49And I will take back everything that belonged to my mother.
12:55Good.
13:00From this day forward, you're no longer a caged bird.
13:11You're my general now.
13:24Anger is your weapon, but don't let it ride you.
13:27Control it.
13:29Master it.
13:43I'm not determined.
13:44I do not want to steal it.
13:48I have to die.
13:49I'm not afraid I didn't succeed.
13:50I'm not afraid I can run my hero now.
13:51You're not afraid.
13:53I'm not afraid.
14:19Finally, you've learned to fight back.
14:27Did I improve this time?
14:29You barely passed.
14:40Don't get cocky.
14:55You'll tear it right off.
15:01Easy!
15:02Now you feel it?
15:03You slammed in that wall seven times today.
15:05Didn't see you flinch once.
15:06You kept counting pretty well.
15:07Looked like you were enjoying yourself.
15:12No.
15:13It hurt.
15:16Are you going to finish the medicine or not?
15:24Does it hurt?
15:27Not anymore.
15:47My wife.
15:49I must be out of my mind, falling in love with a tyrant like you.
15:53I love you too.
16:03Welcome, General Mina.
16:24Vina.
16:25Vina.
16:26You've changed so much.
16:27What do you want?
16:28Your father's birthday banquet.
16:30He demands your return.
16:31And a tribute, gifts and jewels.
16:33In abundant.
16:36I hadn't come for you yet.
16:37And here you are, coming for me.
16:39Tell my father I'll attend.
16:41On time.
16:42With the tribute he asked for.
16:43Vera, the Acropolis, now-
16:45I know.
16:45The rift.
16:46The things that come out of it.
16:48That's what you meant when you said the Acropolis would become hell.
16:51For pushing me away.
16:52If it weren't for you, I might still be trapped in that cage you built for me.
17:02You're going back?
17:03Yes.
17:03My mother's legacy is there.
17:05I'm taking it back with my own hands.
17:07Consider it my dowry.
17:11That girl, the brave one who saved my life, I'll stand behind her no conditions.
17:16You've become my one weakness, so you'll stay by my side, for life, as my queen.
17:21Then my dowry might be a little full of treasure, and an ancient sea monster.
17:25Perfect.
17:26I've got my own score to settle with your family.
17:36Let's go, Kyrion.
17:37Go tell them I'm back.
17:40For everything that's mine.
17:50Two blessings tonight.
17:52My birthday, and my wayward daughter returning to the fold.
17:58Wayward.
17:59What a delicate way to put it.
18:09My daughter.
18:11You've returned.
18:12Where are the gifts?
18:13Here.
18:16One question first.
18:18Was my mother stripped of her power for breaking the law or for exposing what you were hiding?
18:23Don't bother.
18:24I'll take what's hers myself.
18:28What is that thing?
18:29I am the dowry.
18:31Her power, her palace, her humiation, her truth, her revenge, all of it.
18:36My dowry.
18:40Take it?
18:42More than anything.
18:44Lady Serafina is exonerated.
18:46Every house involved, surrender the guilty within three days.
18:49Fail, and it's war.
18:50Patriarch Norris, your banquet is over.
19:00This is what you've been holding back.
19:03Just the beginning.
19:04The real threat is still sleeping.
19:07My mother, it was because of this.
19:08Yes.
19:09They built their fortunes in that vein.
19:12And they'll do anything to bury the truth.
19:14That the vein feeds an ancient calamity waking beneath us.
19:18Then they'll know.
19:19Everyone will.
19:20I've been waiting for that.
19:29Can't sleep?
19:32Thinking about my mother.
19:35Wondering if she saw the same thing from this window.
19:40When did you know it was me?
19:41On the sea.
19:42The moment you unleashed that water blade.
19:45Your power and the power inside this stone.
19:48Same root.
19:50So you never came for a bride?
19:52I came for one person.
19:54A girl who pulled me back from death ten years ago.
19:57She asked for nothing.
20:00I just couldn't let someone die.
20:02That was enough.
20:03The first time anyone wanted me to live.
20:06For nothing in return.
20:07All these years, every time I was close to breaking, I'd hear your voice.
20:11Dolphins guided the good one's home.
20:14I'm not good.
20:16But I want to be someone you lead home.
20:18You already are.
20:20From the moment you rode that beast through the door.
20:40Two decrees.
20:43One.
20:44Vena Serafina.
20:45Daughter of Lady Serafina.
20:47Commander of the First Legion.
20:49The Dolphin Corpse, the Whale Riders, and the Ababyss Vanguard are yours.
20:55General Vena.
20:57Two.
20:58I, Kieran Othian, swear by my sole weapon.
21:01I take Vena Serafina as my queen.
21:04To rule beside me.
21:06Her enemies, mine.
21:08Her will, my command.
21:10Her vengeance, my war.
21:32It's getting wider.
21:35Sooner or later, it'll wake.
21:37Fully.
21:39And all of Atlantis will answer for it.
21:43Are you afraid?
21:47I was.
21:49Afraid I'd never find you.
21:51Afraid I'd face it alone.
21:53Now.
21:54Not afraid anymore.
21:56Why?
21:57Because you're here.
22:00Together.
22:01Together.
22:17The real war is only just beginning.
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