After Their Betrayal, the Ancestor Blood Awakened is a dark fantasy revenge drama filled with betrayal, broken blood oaths, hidden powers, female empowerment, and romance. On the day of her eighteenth birthday, Ella is publicly abandoned and humiliated by the man bound to her through a sacred contract. But when their blood oath shatters, an ancient ancestral power awakens within her—one feared for generations. As enemies begin to fall and secrets rise from the shadows, Ella transforms from a discarded nobody into a force no one can control. Watch the Full EP now in HD with English subtitles.
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00:00In the vampire world, every one of us gets bound to a contract partner when we turn 18.
00:06At the family's coming-of-age ceremony, Cole, my contract partner, knelt before the crowd and kissed my sister's fingertips.
00:15Only the most powerful Bloodland Lord deserves to be my contract partner.
00:19A weak, nobody like Ella doesn't deserve it.
00:23He snapped the contract ring I gave him right in front of everyone.
00:26The backlash hit him so hard he coughed up blood, but he still tore apart our blood oath without lynching.
00:32He expected me to beg.
00:33I pressed my fingerprint onto the contract document and said,
00:37As you wish.
00:38The second the blood oath shattered, something stirred deep inside me.
00:42The ancestral Bloodline, locked away for 18 years, started waking up.
00:47Cole's elite power collapsed on the spot.
00:51I wiped the blood off my hand.
00:56Without my bloodline feeding yours, you're nothing but an average contract partner.
01:02He curled up on the cold stone floor, teeth clenched, glaring at me.
01:06Ella, you're ruthless.
01:09But no matter what dirty tricks you pull to keep me, I only care about Bianca.
01:15Bianca hiked up the hem of her velvet gown and rushed to his side.
01:19The veins at Cole's temples were throbbing.
01:21His elite power was hemorrhaging out of him.
01:24The blood flowed from the corners of his eyes.
01:28The worst sign of the bloodline collapse.
01:33Bianca ripped a pendant from her neck.
01:36A crimson gem dangled from the chain.
01:39The Magnus clan's greatest treasure.
01:41The holy blood amber.
01:43She sliced her own wrist open without a second thought and dipped the amber into the gushing blood.
01:49The gem flared with a dark red glow.
01:52She pressed it to Cole's chest, right over his heart, and activated it with her blood magic.
01:58It barely kept him alive.
02:00He stopped vomiting blood.
02:02Some color crept back into his face.
02:04His breathing steadied.
02:05He jerked his head up.
02:07Those eyes that once swore an eternal oath to me had nothing in them now but venom.
02:11You'd rather destroy me than let me go?
02:13I always knew a bedridden weakling like you had a twisted mind.
02:17I just stood there, watching him fall apart.
02:20Inside me, the sealed ancestral bloodline was shredding through my veins and bones.
02:25I bit down on the tip of my tongue, hard.
02:29The pain was the only thing keeping me conscious.
02:32My mouth filled with blood.
02:34I could smell something buried in it.
02:37Something ancient.
02:39Something that didn't belong to any ordinary vampire.
02:43To everyone else, I probably looked ready to collapse.
02:47I forced a smirk.
02:49It's just oath-breaking backlash.
02:51My voice came out flat.
02:53Not a ripple.
02:54You call yourself an elite?
02:56Can't even handle the price of breaking a blood-o?
02:59Cole lost it.
03:03His pupils went crimson.
03:05Fangs out.
03:06Bullshit!
03:07That was my own talent!
03:09You can't even form blood magic!
03:11And you think you can take credit for my power?
03:14If it wasn't for Bianna's holy blood, Amber,
03:17you would have killed me today!
03:19He turned to Bianca,
03:21and just like that,
03:22his whole face changed.
03:24Soft.
03:25Wounded.
03:26Bianca,
03:27thank God for you.
03:29I always knew only you were worthy of my loyalty.
03:33Bianca's eyes went red.
03:35She put on her best heartbroken look.
03:38Cole, stop talking.
03:40Your health comes first.
03:42Then she turned to me.
03:45Then she turned to me.
03:45Disappointment.
03:46Pain.
03:47Every bit of it calculated.
03:50Ellen,
03:51I know you've been sickly and lonely your whole life.
03:55But Cole is innocent.
03:57How could you use such a vicious method to hurt him?
04:00No matter how jealous you are of me,
04:02you shouldn't play with someone's life.
04:04That did it.
04:05The guests erupted.
04:08This second daughter is pure evil.
04:10Breaking a contract is one thing,
04:12but trying to kill him?
04:14She's weak,
04:15and she still wants to chain down an elite?
04:17Selfish.
04:19The eldest daughter is a saint.
04:21She even used the clan's greatest bauble to save him.
04:24The whispers piled on.
04:27I didn't fight any of it.
04:29Every ounce of energy I had was going toward holding down the force building inside me.
04:36If the ancestral bloodline blew now,
04:39everyone in this hall would die with me.
04:41I wasn't ready for that.
04:43Not yet.
04:48The roar shook the entire hall.
04:51My father,
04:52Clan Lord Magnus,
04:53shoved through the crowd and marched straight to me.
04:55He didn't spare a glance at my breeding hand,
04:58just raised his arm and slapped me across the face.
05:02The blow carried the full pressure of a high-ranking vampire.
05:06I had nothing left to dodge with.
05:08I hit the ground hard.
05:10My lips split.
05:12Blood ran down my chin and dripped onto the stone.
05:15He stood over me like I was something stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
05:19Your sister was kind enough to take in your contract partner,
05:22and you dare try to kill him in front of everyone?
05:25How did I end up with a daughter who brings nothing but shame to this clan?
05:30I wiped my lip and looked up at the man they called my father.
05:34I didn't poison him.
05:36That was normal backlash from breaking a blood oath.
05:39Word by word.
05:41Clear as I could make it.
05:43He laughed.
05:44Cold.
05:45His eyes full of loathing.
05:48Still making excuses?
05:50Cole is an elite.
05:51A simple contract break couldn't do this much damage.
05:54You poisoned the contract document because he rejected you.
05:59Cole jumped right in.
06:04Lord Magnus is right.
06:06I felt something poisonous drilling into my bloodline core.
06:09If Bianca hadn't saved me, I'd be a corpse right now.
06:13Right on cue, Bianca tugged at Lord Magnus' sleeve.
06:16Tears rolling.
06:17Father, please don't be angry.
06:19Ella just lost her head for a moment.
06:22Lock her up for a few days to reflect.
06:24Don't hurt her.
06:25She sounded like she was begging for mercy.
06:28She was handing down my sentence.
06:31Lord Magnus snorted.
06:33Waved his hand.
06:34Take this oathbreaker to the ice vault.
06:37No one visits her without my permission.
06:40Not until she hands over the antidote.
06:43Two guards grabbed me by the shoulders, one on each side.
06:46The bloodline reshaping itself inside me had taken everything.
06:50I couldn't even struggle.
06:52They dragged me toward the doors.
06:54As I passed Cole, he leaned in close.
06:56Low enough that only I could hear.
06:58Ella, this is what happens when you go against me.
07:03I peeled my eyelids open.
07:06Cole, remember what you said today.
07:08Don't ever come clouding back to me.
07:10He snorted.
07:11Like it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
07:15Cloud back to you?
07:17I'd rather jump off a cliff than look at you again.
07:24Deep inside the ice vault.
07:27Cole gnawing into my bones, inch by inch.
07:30Two heavy iron chains held me up from the ceiling.
07:33My lower body sat in black ice water.
07:36The freezing cold and the scorching heat of the ancestral bloodline tore at each other inside.
07:41Me.
07:42My blood vessels ripped apart, then stitched back together.
07:46Over and over.
07:47Even breathing.
07:49Tasted like blood.
07:50I don't know how long it went on.
07:53Then the heavy iron door scraped open.
07:55A beam of harsh light cut through the dark.
07:58Bianca and Cole.
08:00Together.
08:01She wore a white fur cloak and carried a hand warmer.
08:04Every inch the noble lady.
08:07He wore.
08:08The dark gold coat of the Magnus clan's chief guardian.
08:11But his face was sickly pale.
08:13And his steps weren't steady.
08:15The holy blood amber was holding him together.
08:18But it couldn't stop the collapse.
08:20Not.
08:20Really.
08:21Bianca gave a little shiver and pressed closer to Cole.
08:24God, this cellar is freezing.
08:25He wrapped his arm around her shoulders right away.
08:29Bianca.
08:30You're too delicate for a filthy place like this.
08:33Then he looked down at me.
08:34Pity and contempt.
08:36Mixed together.
08:38Ella.
08:39How long are you going to keep up this stubborn act?
08:42He walked to the edge of the pool.
08:44Looked down at me.
08:45The holy blood amber saved my life.
08:48But the healer says your poison already reached my blood.
08:51The only cure is heart's blood from the one who cast the poison.
08:56That's you.
08:57My head hung low.
08:59Sweat dripped through my tangled hair.
09:01I heard every word.
09:02And I couldn't help it.
09:04I laughed.
09:06Cole's brow furrowed.
09:08What are you laughing at?
09:09I raised my head.
09:14Let him see the mockery on my face.
09:16I'm laughing because you're not just an ungrateful parasite.
09:20You're a stupid one too.
09:23I already told you.
09:25Oath-breaking rape lash.
09:27But you keep calling it poison.
09:30You want my heart's blood?
09:33You think you deserve it?
09:35His hand whipped through the air.
09:37A lash of blood magic cracked against my shoulder.
09:40The sound of tearing flesh bounced off the walls.
09:43I grunted.
09:44Bit my lip.
09:46Didn't scream.
09:48Ella, don't push your luck!
09:50He was glaring at me like I owed him several lifetimes.
09:53I spent ten years as your dog.
09:56Took every hit, every blade for you.
09:59All I'm asking for now is a little heart's blood.
10:02Who are you to refuse?
10:05Cooperate.
10:06And I might let Bianca give you a spot as a blood slave in her household.
10:11My stomach turned.
10:15Blood slave?
10:16I almost choked on the words.
10:19Cole, is your head full of mud?
10:22You're a parasite who climbed the ranks by feeding off your host.
10:26And you actually think you're somebody?
10:32That hit a nerve.
10:34His pupils flared deep red.
10:37Fangs out.
10:38Hand raised to strike again.
10:40Bianca stepped in front of him.
10:43Cole, don't.
10:45She turned to me.
10:47Fate concern painted on so thick it was almost impressive.
10:51Ella, how can you say that to Cole?
10:53He's doing this for your own good.
10:56You'll freeze to death down here sooner or later.
11:00Just give him your heart's blood.
11:02I'll ask father to let you out myself.
11:05I stared at her.
11:07Bianca, drop the act.
11:09It makes me sick.
11:11You want my heart's blood?
11:13Dream on.
11:14Her smile froze.
11:17Then she sighed.
11:19Ella, you always pick the hardest road.
11:22She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small box carved from dark wood.
11:26My pupils shrank.
11:28That was the ebony box.
11:30My mother's ashes.
11:33What are you doing?
11:34Put that down!
11:36I thrashed against the chains.
11:38Metal clinked through the vault.
11:40She turned the box over in her hands, a cruel smile curling at her lips.
11:47Ella, I know your mother's ashes are the most precious thing you have.
11:51What if my hands slipped?
11:53What if this box fell into the ice water?
11:56Would your poor dead mother shiver down there in the cold?
12:00She held it out over the pool, loosened her fingers just a little.
12:05Bianca, don't you dare!
12:11My eyes went red, locked on her hand.
12:15The ancestral bloodline inside me surged in response, slamming against my veins, trying
12:20to break free.
12:21But I was in the middle of the most critical stage.
12:25I couldn't channel a single shred of power.
12:28Cole leaned against the wall, arms crossed.
12:31Ella, give in, or your mother's ashes soak in the ice water forever.
12:38One drop of heart's blood for your mother's peace.
12:42Good deal, if you ask me.
12:45I clenched my jaw until my teeth ached.
12:48My mouth tasted like iron.
12:50They had me.
12:52They knew exactly where to hit.
12:54The words scraped out through my teeth.
12:57Fine.
12:59I'll give it to you.
13:02Bianca tucked the box back into her pocket.
13:06Satisfied.
13:06See?
13:07That wasn't so hard.
13:12Cole pulled out a dagger and a jade ball.
13:15Walked up to me.
13:16Drove the dagger into my chest.
13:18Without a beat of hesitation.
13:21Pain tore through me.
13:23My whole body shook.
13:26He carved out my heart's blood with practiced hands.
13:30No mercy.
13:31Not even a flinch.
13:33Warm blood ran down the blade into the bowl.
13:36A faint, strange fragrance rose from it.
13:39The scent of ancestral blood.
13:42Nobody in the room recognized it.
13:45He finished.
13:46Tossed the dagger on the ground.
13:49Smart choice.
13:51He cradled the bowl and walked out.
13:54Bianca followed.
13:55At the doorway, she stopped and turned back.
13:58Oh, Ella.
14:00Almost forgot.
14:01Your mother's ashes?
14:03I had someone dump them in the garbage pit behind the mansion ages ago.
14:07That box was just fireplace ash.
14:11She covered her mouth, giggling.
14:14Rot in here.
14:19Her words hit me.
14:22Bianca!
14:23I'll kill you!
14:24I thrashed like a cage animal.
14:27The chains dug into my wrists and ankles.
14:30Blood turned the ice water red.
14:33All they left behind was laughter.
14:36The iron door slammed shut.
14:38Alone.
14:40Freezing dark.
14:41I survived the worst stage of the ancestral bloodline's awakening by myself.
14:47Three days later, the door opened again.
14:50Guards dragged me out.
14:52All the way to the clan's public judgment hall.
14:55The light hit my eyes and I had to squint.
14:58The hall was packed.
15:00Elders.
15:01Core members.
15:02All of them.
15:03Lord Magnus.
15:04In the clan leader's seat.
15:06Bianca and Cole stood at his right.
15:09They looked like the perfect couple.
15:11Across from them, a young man in a pale coat.
15:15Julian.
15:16My fiancé.
15:18Something flickered inside me when I saw him.
15:21A faint.
15:22Stupid spark of hope.
15:25Julian.
15:26My voice barely came out.
15:28He turned.
15:30Saw the blood all over me.
15:32And stepped back.
15:34Actually stepped back.
15:36Like my.
15:36Blood might stain his clothes.
15:40Ella, don't say my name.
15:42It makes me sick.
15:46Cold.
15:47Ice cold.
15:48I stared at him.
15:51Julian.
15:52What did you just say?
15:57He reached into his coat and pulled out a dark silver oath ring.
16:01Held it up.
16:02That ring.
16:03The one he begged me to accept.
16:06On his knees.
16:07Three days in the snow.
16:09Ella, you're eaten up by jealousy.
16:11You tried to kill Cole and you've been cursing Bianca behind her back.
16:15My wife has to be a woman of noble blood and pure heart.
16:18Someone like Bianca.
16:20Not a vicious piece of trash who can't even form basic blood magic.
16:24He hurled the ring to the ground.
16:27I stared at the pieces.
16:29The whole thing felt like a bad joke.
16:34You were the one who begged me, Julian.
16:37On your knees.
16:38You said you didn't care whether I could use blood magic.
16:41And now you want to play the saint?
16:44His face flushed red.
16:46He jabbed his finger at me.
16:48I was blind.
16:49Your helpless little act fooled me.
16:51You're not worth a single strand of Bianca's hair.
16:55Right on cue, Bianca stepped forward.
16:58Took Julian's arm.
16:59Julian, don't be so harsh.
17:01Ella just loved Cole too much.
17:04She lost her head.
17:06She turned to Lord Magnus.
17:08Eyes glistening.
17:09Father, Ella made a terrible mistake, but she's still my sister.
17:15Please, spare her life.
17:17Cole jumped out.
17:19Bianca, you're too kind.
17:22She doesn't deserve anyone's sympathy.
17:25Lord Magnus, if this oathbreaker stays in the clan, she'll be nothing but trouble.
17:35The elders nodded along.
17:38Indeed, my lord.
17:39This girl must go.
17:41Strip her status and cast her out.
17:44Lord Magnus looked at me.
17:46Not a trace of warmth in those eyes.
17:48Nothing fatherly.
17:50Nothing human.
17:52Ella, you tried to murder the clan's chief guardian.
17:56You're jealous of your elder sister.
17:58You refuse to repent.
18:01Today, as lord of the Magnus clan, I declare, Ella is stripped of her bloodline status.
18:09Her family name revoked, reduced to a commoner, and banished from this clan.
18:15Effective immediately.
18:16Every word, a knife in my chest.
18:19I looked around the hall.
18:21All those sanctimonious faces.
18:23Then I threw my head back and laughed.
18:26Laughed until tears ran down my cheeks.
18:29What a noble, righteous Magnus clan.
18:32What a pure, flawless Bianca.
18:35You cursed, rotten bunch.
18:37You deserve each other.
18:39Lord Magnus slammed his fist on the table, shot to his feet.
18:44Insolent, insolent, insolent.
18:45At death's door and you still dare run your mouth.
18:49Guards, throw her out onto the street.
18:52Guards moved in.
18:55Then Cole grabbed his chest.
18:57His face went chalk white.
18:59A choked groan.
19:01He went down.
19:02Cole!
19:03Bianca screamed and caught him.
19:10His body convulsed.
19:12The bloodline collapsed, but the heart's blood had suppressed erupted again.
19:16Worse than before.
19:18Black blood oozed from his eyes, nostrils, and ears all at once that he doubled over and coughed up another
19:23dark mouthful.
19:24The healer rushed over, checked him, went pale.
19:30Lord Magnus!
19:31My lady!
19:32His core damage is too severe.
19:35That heart's blood wasn't nearly enough.
19:37If we don't find a pure bloodline source immediately, he won't survive the night.
19:42Bianca panicked.
19:44Then do something!
19:46Get every blood medicine from the vault!
19:48All of it!
19:49The healer shook his head.
19:51His gaze drifted to me.
19:54Ordinary medicine won't work.
19:56Only the bloodline core of a plantive can cure this.
20:00Silence.
20:01Dead silence.
20:02Every eye in the room landed on me.
20:04Lord Magnus looked at Cole.
20:06Then at me.
20:07His gaze settled.
20:09No hesitation.
20:11Just cold calculation.
20:13Ella.
20:14He softened his voice.
20:16Gentle, almost.
20:18But underneath it, cold enough to kill.
20:21You've been cast out.
20:22A bloodline core is wasted on a nobody like you.
20:26Give it to Cole.
20:28Consider it your final contribution to the Magnus clan.
20:31I stared at this man.
20:33My own father.
20:35A bloodline core sits deep in the spine, woven into bone and nerve.
20:39Ripping it out of a living body means cracking the spine open and tearing out a crystal of power embedded
20:45in flesh and marrow.
20:46If the victim survives at all, they're left as an empty shell.
20:51Weaker than any ordinary human.
20:57Magnus, I am your daughter.
21:00Every word threw gritted teeth.
21:02The mask came off.
21:03I don't have a daughter who shames this clan.
21:06You're worthless bones for an elite's life.
21:09That's the greatest honor you'll ever have.
21:11Do it!
21:12No mercy.
21:14Not a shred.
21:15Her guards pinned me to the stone floor.
21:18Rough hands crushed my shoulder blades.
21:21Cole staggered up with Bianca's help.
21:23His pale face twisted with hunger.
21:26His pupils went deep red.
21:28His lips trembled.
21:30The raw craving of a vampire facing the purest blood.
21:34Ella!
21:35You owe me this!
21:36He drew a gleaming surgical knife and came toward me, one step at a time.
21:41With your bloodline core, I'll lock in my elite power for good.
21:46Maybe even push past it.
21:48Don't worry.
21:49After I become the strongest, I'll have Bianca light a candle for you every year.
21:55My cheat pressed against the cold stone.
21:58I watched him come closer.
22:00Cole, aren't you afraid of what comes next?
22:03He threw his head back and laughed.
22:05Karma?
22:05The strong eat the weak.
22:07That's the only truth.
22:09You can't even fight back.
22:11You think you get to talk to me about karma?
22:15The knife went into my back.
22:17I screamed.
22:18The blade scraped along my spine.
22:20Prying my bloodline core loose from the bone.
22:23Like a hot iron clamp shoved into my spine, wrenching out something fused to the marrow.
22:28Inch by inch.
22:33Cracking bone.
22:34I could hear it inside my own body.
22:37Louder than anything else.
22:39Blood poured out.
22:41The floor turned red.
22:43The Magnus clan watched.
22:45Some looked annoyed.
22:46Like I was ruining their carpet.
22:49Julian turned away.
22:51He couldn't look.
22:52But he kept holding Bianca's hand.
22:55Bianca smiled.
22:56Pain.
22:58Pain all the way down to the soul.
23:00But inside that agony, the ancestral bloodline finally found its way out.
23:05The second my bloodline core was torn free, the last seal shattered.
23:09Destruction and rebirth crashed together inside me.
23:12Then merged.
23:14Perfectly.
23:15Cole ripped out a pale crystal soaked in my blood.
23:18Held it up and laughed like a madman.
23:20I got it!
23:21I finally got it!
23:24I lay face down in a pool of blood.
23:27Barely breathing.
23:28Everyone watching saw a dying husk.
23:31I didn't beg.
23:33I laughed.
23:34Quiet.
23:35Wet.
23:36Blood bubbling in my throat.
23:39It echoed through the silent hall.
23:41Bianca wrinkled her nose.
23:43What are you laughing at?
23:45Lost your mind?
23:46I managed to lift my head, a flicker of dark gold in the depths of my eyes.
23:51I'm laughing because soon enough, you'll all be on your knees, begging me.
23:57Lord Magnus waved his hand.
24:00Can't shut up, even when she's dying.
24:02Throw her into the forbidden wasteland.
24:05Let the beasts deal with the body.
24:07Two guards dragged me out like a corpse.
24:10Behind me, Cole was shouting about fusing the bloodline core.
24:14The crowd was congratulating Bianca and Julian.
24:18Bianca's voice floated after me.
24:20Let her die on her own.
24:22Light.
24:23Careless.
24:27The Forbidden Wasteland.
24:29Edge of Magnus Territory.
24:31Dead end.
24:32Thick black fog.
24:33All year round.
24:35The valley floor crawling with bloodthirsty beasts.
24:38Even a high-ranking vampire wouldn't survive the fall.
24:41The two guards stopped at the cliff's edge and tossed me on the ground like a sack of garbage.
24:46The first one spat.
24:47Damn it.
24:48Dragging us out to this hellhole in the middle of the night.
24:52The second one rubbed his hands together, eyes crawling over my body.
24:56Quit complaining.
24:57Look at her.
24:58This second daughter might be ruined.
25:00But that face?
25:02Still the prettiest in the whole clan.
25:04He crouched down.
25:06Rough fingers grabbed my chin.
25:08Forced my head up.
25:09Used to be so high and mighty.
25:11Wouldn't even look at guys like us.
25:14Now look at you.
25:16The first guard moved in.
25:18A sick gleam in his eyes.
25:20She's dead meat.
25:21Anyway.
25:22Beast food.
25:24Why don't we have a little fun first?
25:27They shared a look.
25:29Let out ugly laughs.
25:31Hands reaching for my torn clothes.
25:33Then a voice.
25:35Cold.
25:36From somewhere behind them.
25:38How would you like to die?
25:40They froze.
25:41Looked down.
25:42The woman who was supposed to be dying was getting to her feet.
25:46The wound on my back was closing.
25:49Fast.
25:50Visible.
25:50A dark gold glow rippled across my skin.
25:54Ancient patterns surfacing.
25:56The markings of a fully awakened ancestral bloodline.
26:03I opened my eyes.
26:05No more black.
26:06Liquid gold.
26:07Shifting and molten.
26:09Ancestral pressure slammed down on them.
26:11Their fangs retracted on their own.
26:13Instinct.
26:14A lesser vampire facing an absolute superior.
26:18The first guard's legs gave out.
26:20He hit his knees.
26:22Eyes wide.
26:23You.
26:24Your bloodline core was ripped out.
26:26The second tried to run.
26:28His body wouldn't move.
26:31Something had seized his blood.
26:33I raised my right hand.
26:36Bloodline core.
26:38I don't need that anymore.
26:40I closed my fist.
26:42Their blood boiled at the same instant.
26:45Two dull fuds.
26:47They burst apart from the inside.
26:49Didn't even have time to scream.
26:52I brushed off my hands and walked to the cliff's edge.
26:56Jumped.
26:57Meanwhile.
26:59The Magnus clan's ritual chamber.
27:02Coal lay strapped to a stone altar.
27:05Ancient runes covered the surface.
27:07Black candles threw flickering shadows.
27:09Glass containers of blood reagents lined both sides.
27:14The dark red liquid churning slowly.
27:16Bianca and Lord Magnus watched.
27:19Waiting.
27:20The healer ran the transplant.
27:23Once the core is implanted in Coal's spine.
27:26His elite power will fully stabilize.
27:30Maybe even advance.
27:31Lord Magnus stroked his chin.
27:34Eyes sharp.
27:35The healer aligned the bloody core with Coal's spine and eased it in.
27:42At first, smooth.
27:44A surge of blood magic erupted from Coal's body.
27:48His energy climbed.
27:50His loose fangs grew sharp again.
27:53The icy blue glow returned to his eyes.
27:57Bianca's face lit up.
27:58It's worked!
27:59Then Coal's face twisted.
28:01His eyes flew open.
28:03He screamed.
28:05His rising power didn't just stop.
28:08It reversed.
28:09His blood magic was draining out.
28:11Through the implanted core at a terrifying speed.
28:14He snapped the restraints and sat up.
28:17Stared at his hands.
28:19What's happening?
28:20Why am I losing my power?
28:22His nails were shrinking from shark claws into soft, brittle human nails.
28:26He scrambled off the altar and grabbed Bianca's legs.
28:30Bianca!
28:31Save me!
28:32Please!
28:33My power is gone!
28:35No!
28:36No!
28:37She recoiled.
28:38Kicked him off without thinking.
28:40What the hell is wrong with you?
28:42What happened?
28:43You said the core would fix everything!
28:45The healer checked.
28:47Then his face drained of color.
28:51He sank to the floor.
28:53It's over.
28:54The core didn't fill the gap.
28:56It acted like a black hole and drained every last drop of coal's power.
29:01He's weaker than a normal human now.
29:05Coal lay on the floor.
29:07Staring at nothing.
29:09Bloody fangs scattered around him on the coal tiles.
29:12Impossible.
29:13This can't be happening.
29:18The bottom of the forbidden wasteland.
29:21No daylight ever reached here.
29:24Dozens of red eyes watched me from the shadows.
29:26Hungry.
29:27The biggest beast came first.
29:30Size of a small hill.
29:32It roared and lunged.
29:33Jaws wide.
29:34Blasting reeking air.
29:36I didn't blink.
29:38Down.
29:39One word.
29:40Dark gold energy punched through the beast's skull.
29:44The massive body crashed to the ground.
29:48Every other creature in the shadows went quiet.
29:51Whimpering.
29:52Shrinking into the dark.
29:53I walked over scattered bones.
29:55Heading deeper.
29:56My mother's real legacy was sealed down here.
30:00The final destination of my ancestral awakening.
30:04An ancient blood beast blocked the entrance to the ruins.
30:07Enormous.
30:08Shape between a giant wolf and a bat.
30:11Black flames burning across its fur.
30:13Pairs of bony wings on its back.
30:17Nine savage heads on one body.
30:20The absolute ruler of the wasteland.
30:22A horror left over from a forgotten age.
30:25All nine heads roared at once.
30:28The ground shook.
30:32Beauty vampire.
30:34You dare set foot in my domain.
30:39I walked straight into the pressure.
30:42Step by step.
30:44Dark gold light gathered behind me.
30:46Forming the towering shadow of an ancestor.
30:49Ancient markings covered every inch of my skin.
30:52I lifted my chin.
30:54Kneel.
30:54Or die.
30:58The roar cut off.
31:00All nine pairs of eyes went wide with something I had never expected to see in a beast.
31:05Fear.
31:05It felt the suppression in its blood.
31:08The ancestral bloodline was the original master of all vampire creatures.
31:12Its massive body shuddered.
31:14Then all nine heads lowered to the dust.
31:17Great master.
31:18Your ancient blood servant lives to serve.
31:22I stepped onto the beast's head.
31:25Watched the ruined doors open.
31:27My time had finally come.
31:29Back at the Magnus estate.
31:32Things were falling apart.
31:33Coal, the mighty chief guardian, was curled up in the corner of a woodshed.
31:39Filthy clothes.
31:40Tangled, reeking hair.
31:42Without vampire power to sustain him.
31:45His face had gone gaunt and rough.
31:48His once blue eyes had faded to a cloudy gray.
31:51The shed door flew open with a kick.
31:54Bianca walked in, holding her nose.
31:57Bianca!
31:57You finally came to see me!
32:00He threw himself at her.
32:02Hands and knees.
32:04Reaching for her dress.
32:05She kicked him flat on his back.
32:08Get off me!
32:09Don't touch me!
32:10You think you can touch my clothes?
32:12He rolled on the ground, staring up at the woman he'd sworn his life to.
32:17Bianca!
32:17You can't do this to me!
32:21I broke my oath with Ella for you!
32:23I ended up like this because of you!
32:25He was screaming.
32:26He opened his mouth, trying to bare his fangs.
32:30But his gums were bare.
32:32Every last fong gone.
32:34Nothing but raw, swollen flesh.
32:37She looked down at him.
32:40She laughed.
32:41For me?
32:42Don't flatter yourself.
32:45You betrayed Ella because you're greedy.
32:47You wanted to ride my coattails to the top.
32:51My guardians have to be the strongest.
32:53You can't even match an ordinary guard now.
32:56What use are you?
32:58He went rigid.
32:59Lightning striking.
33:01He finally got it.
33:03To Bianca, he'd always been a tool.
33:06The second he lost his value, she tossed him.
33:09Something snapped in him.
33:11No!
33:12It's that bitch Ella!
33:14He was screaming, wild.
33:16She did something to the core!
33:18If I find her, if I drink her blood, I'll recover!
33:23Vianna, send people to the wasteland.
33:26Bring her back.
33:27Please, I'm begging you!
33:30Bianca didn't even try to hide her disgust.
33:34Are you insane?
33:36The forbidden wasteland.
33:37She fell in there.
33:39There wouldn't be bones left.
33:41Even if she were alive.
33:42You think she'd save you?
33:44She turned for the door.
33:46Threw her last words over her shoulder.
33:49Someone get this trash out of the estate.
33:52My ceremony is tomorrow.
33:54I don't want him here.
33:56Cole crumpled to the floor.
33:58The tears finally broke.
34:00He thought about the last ten years.
34:02Every time he got hurt, Ella used her own blood to heal him.
34:06Every time he needed something, Ella moved heaven and earth to get it.
34:11He destroyed all of that with his own hands.
34:15Ella, I was wrong.
34:17I was so wrong.
34:19He sobbed in the empty shed.
34:21Nobody answered.
34:23The Magnus estate was decked out for celebration.
34:25Today was Bianca's investiture as blood daughter, official heir, and her engagement banquet with Julian.
34:33The hall gleaned.
34:35Gold and crystal everywhere.
34:37Nobles and clan leaders lined up to congratulate.
34:41Lord Magnus sat in the seat of honor.
34:43Beaming.
34:45Soaking it in.
34:46Bianca wore a deep red ceremonial gown and a dark silver crown.
34:50Every inch a queen.
34:52Julian stood beside her in white.
34:54White, polished, charming, the perfect couple.
34:59He took her hand.
35:03Bianca, you look beautiful today.
35:07She smiled, shy, lowered her gaze.
35:11Julian, from now on, we'll be together forever.
35:14The celebration hit its peak.
35:17Then a filthy, stinking figure burst out from a corner of the hall.
35:21Bianca, you can't marry him.
35:24You promised to make me your chief guardian.
35:27Cole, stumbling, wild-eyed.
35:31He'd slipped past the distracted gate guards for one last try.
35:34The hall went silent.
35:39Everyone stared at the man who looked like a vagrant.
35:42Who is this beggar?
35:44How did he get in?
35:46Wait.
35:47Is that...
35:48Cole?
35:48The elite?
35:50My god!
35:52What happened to him?
35:54Bianca's face went dark.
35:56Humiliated.
35:57Guards!
35:58Get this lunatic out of here!
36:00Guards swarmed him.
36:02Threw him down.
36:04Punching.
36:05Kicking.
36:06He couldn't fight back.
36:07All he could do was scream.
36:10Bianca!
36:11You can't be this heartless!
36:13I gave everything for you!
36:18Julian stepped forward.
36:20Planted his foot on Cole's face.
36:23A piece of trash making a scene.
36:26You've disturbed Biana.
36:28That alone is unforgivable.
36:30Cole's face was crushed into the floor.
36:32Blood and tears running into his mouth.
36:35Through the crowd, he caught Bianca's eyes.
36:38Cold.
36:39Empty.
36:40The last shred of hope inside him died.
36:43The guards reached for him.
36:45Boom!
36:46The hall shook.
36:48The massive red doors, forged from ancient iron, blew apart into dust.
36:55Debris and wind tore through the hall.
36:58Guests stumbled.
37:00Screamed.
37:01Lord Magnus shot to his feet.
37:03Blood magic flaring.
37:05Who dares attack the Magnus class?
37:08The dust settled.
37:09A massive black shadow filled the entrance.
37:12The ancient blood beast.
37:13Nine savage heads.
37:15Pushing through the fog.
37:16Bony wings blocking the doorway.
37:19Behind it, countless red eyes glowed in the dark.
37:22Every predator from the forbidden.
37:25Wasteland.
37:26Assembled in silence, bowing to their new master.
37:29And on top of the largest head.
37:32Me.
37:32Black gown.
37:34Hem whipping in the wind.
37:35My once pale, sickly face now radiant with power.
37:40Dark gold eyes burning with the light of the ancestral bloodline.
37:43Ancient markings drifting.
37:45Across my neck and arms.
37:47I looked down at the terrified crowd.
37:50The Magnus clan is throwing a party.
37:53And nobody invited me for a drink?
37:55My voice was quiet.
37:57It reached every ear.
37:59The pressure behind it, absolute.
38:02Silence.
38:03Every vampire in the room felt it.
38:06Suppression from the source of their blood.
38:08Fangs retracting on their own.
38:11Bodies wanting to kneel.
38:12Bianca's face drained white.
38:14Her finger trembled as she pointed at me.
38:17Eella?
38:23You were thrown into the wasteland!
38:25Are you alive or a ghost?
38:27I patted the beast's horn.
38:30It growled low.
38:32Dust shook from the ceiling.
38:35Dear sister.
38:37You're not dead yet.
38:39How could I leave before you?
38:41I leap off the beast's head.
38:43Landed on the red carpet.
38:45Started walking toward the platform.
38:48I came to collect what's owed.
38:50Lord Magnus snapped out of it.
38:53No relief.
38:54No joy.
38:55Just rage.
38:57You cursed piece of trash!
38:59You survived, and you dare bring this thing in here and ruin your sister's ceremony?
39:04Guards!
39:05Take her down!
39:07Dozens of elite shadow guards drew their weapons
39:09and came at me from every direction.
39:12Bianca stood on the platform.
39:14A flash of satisfaction in her eyes.
39:17Ella, so what if you crawled back?
39:19Today you die again!
39:21I stopped walking.
39:23Didn't look at them.
39:25Raised my right hand.
39:27Spread my fingers.
39:29Ancestral pressure poured out of me.
39:31Every guard froze midair.
39:33Their blood stopped listening to their own hearts.
39:36It answered to.
39:38Me now.
39:39Dozens of bodies burst apart at once.
39:42The guests scrambled backward.
39:44Looking at me like I was a monster.
39:47Lord Magnus' fangs retracted against his will.
39:50His legs were shaking.
39:52What?
39:53What are you?
39:54His voice cracked.
39:55I didn't answer.
39:57Kept walking.
40:01Julian was staring at me.
40:03The ancestral markings glowing across my skin.
40:06And something.
40:08Ugly crossed his face.
40:10Shock.
40:11Fear.
40:12But mostly greed.
40:14He dropped Bianca's hand.
40:16Rushed over.
40:17Put on his most loving expression.
40:19Ella.
40:21Thank God you're alive.
40:23The truth is.
40:24I've always had feelings for you.
40:26He grabbed for my shoulder.
40:28Voice dripping with eagerness.
40:30The broken engagement?
40:32Biana and Lord Magnus enforced my hand.
40:35I had no choice.
40:36You're so powerful now.
40:38Let's start over.
40:39My family will always have a place for you.
40:41I looked at his fickle, shameless face.
40:45My stomach turned.
40:46Julian, you disgust me.
40:50I kicked him square in the chest.
40:52He flew backward.
40:54Crashed through the offering table.
40:56Popped up blood.
40:58Couldn't get up.
41:00Then, from a corner of the hall, a wailing cry.
41:04Ella!
41:05Ella!
41:06Is that you?
41:08Cole shoved through the crowd, battered, bloody.
41:11He threw himself at my feet.
41:14Tears, snot, and blood all over his face.
41:17He stared up at me.
41:19Ella!
41:20I knew you were alive!
41:22You came back for me, right?
41:26He slammed his forehead into the stone floor, again and again.
41:31I was wrong!
41:32I know I was wrong!
41:35Bianca never loved me.
41:37She used me!
41:38You were the only one who was ever good to me!
41:41His shaking hands reached for the hem of my gown.
41:45Ella, let's make a new blood oath.
41:47I swear I'll be your guardian.
41:49No one else's.
41:51I'll be your dog!
41:52Your slave!
41:53Anything!
41:54I don't care!
41:57Just feed me your blood one more time.
41:59Please!
42:00I don't want to be a cripple!
42:03I looked down at him.
42:04The man who used to grind me under his heel.
42:07Now lower than a worm.
42:09I crouched.
42:11Met his eyes.
42:12He was practically glowing with hope.
42:15Cole.
42:16You really think wagging your tail will make me forgive you?
42:19His face lit up.
42:21He thought I was softening.
42:23Nodded like crazy.
42:25Yes!
42:26Ella, you're so kind.
42:28You used to cry if I got even a tiny scratch.
42:33Forgive me, and I'll kill Bianca right now!
42:36I'll do it!
42:37He spun around, glared at Bianca.
42:40I watched.
42:42Let the contempt settle deeper into my face.
42:45Then I stood up.
42:46Looked down at him.
42:49Cole, do you actually believe you were talented?
42:53My voice held nothing.
42:55You think you were some rare elite?
42:58You were nothing.
42:59A mediocre nobody who grew a few scales by feeding off my ancestral blood.
43:05Without me, you wouldn't qualify to sweep this floor.
43:12His face froze.
43:18No.
43:19Impossible.
43:20I earned my power through training.
43:22He could barely get the words out.
43:24I raised my right hand.
43:26Palm aimed at his spine.
43:28Is that so?
43:32Then let me take back what's mine.
43:35Time for you to feel what it's like.
43:38Having your bloodline core ripped out.
43:41I clenched my fist.
43:45Crack.
43:46A sickening snap from inside his body.
43:49He screamed.
43:50His back arched until it looked ready.
43:53To break.
43:55The core fragment.
43:57The one he'd stolen from me.
43:59Tore through his flesh and flew into my.
44:01Hand.
44:04Blood sprayed everywhere.
44:05Without the core.
44:07Cole went limp.
44:09Couldn't move a finger.
44:11Eyes vacant.
44:12Throat wheezing.
44:14Finished.
44:15Every vampire feature was gone.
44:18Eyes cloudy white.
44:19Skin loose and dry.
44:21He looked like an.
44:23Old man dreamed of everything.
44:25I held up the bloody fragment.
44:28Comfortable with my bloodline core.
44:30Were you?
44:33I crushed it to powder.
44:35Let it scatter in the air.
44:37The hall was dead silent.
44:40Lord Magnus read the room.
44:42His legs buckled.
44:44He dropped to his knees.
44:46Ella.
44:47This is all my fault.
44:50Tears.
44:51Forehead on the floor.
44:53Laying it on thick.
44:54I was old and foolish.
44:57That wicked girl Bianca blinded me.
45:00You're the true pride of the Magnus clan.
45:03Forgive me.
45:05The clan is yours.
45:07Whatever you want.
45:08Father and daughter.
45:10Together we could make this the greatest clan in the world.
45:13I looked at this man.
45:15Ready to sacrifice his own daughter for power.
45:19Now groveling too.
45:21Survive.
45:22Pathetic.
45:23Begging now.
45:24I walked up to him.
45:26When you pinned me down and ripped out my bloodline core.
45:30You didn't look like this.
45:32I stopped having a father that day.
45:35Bianca watched Lord Magnus kneel.
45:37Panic took over.
45:39She knew I wasn't going to let her walk.
45:42She yanked a dagger from her waist.
45:44The blade was coated in something dark.
45:47Ancient toxic.
45:48Blood.
45:49The clan's secret weapon.
45:51Supposed to corrode any vampire's core.
45:53She lunged at my back.
45:55Ella.
45:56Die.
46:00Watch out.
46:02Julian called from across the room.
46:04Fake as always.
46:06I didn't turn around.
46:08Just swung my hand back.
46:10The dagger.
46:11The one that was supposed to kill high-ranking vampires.
46:15Shattered against a stone pillar.
46:18Along with the hand holding it.
46:20My fingers closed around Bianca's throat.
46:23I lifted her off the ground.
46:25Her legs kicked in the air.
46:28Face turning purple.
46:30Clawing at my hand.
46:31Let go.
46:33Her dark silver crown fell.
46:35Hit the floor.
46:37Broke apart.
46:38I looked at the face that had lorded over me for years.
46:42Dear sister.
46:43Your precious power means less to me than dirt.
46:47My grip tightened.
46:49Ancestral power surged down my arm and flooded into her body.
46:53Her blood vessels ruptured.
46:55One by one.
46:57Every ounce of blood magic she built up over the years.
47:01Torn apart.
47:04My power!
47:05My face!
47:07She screamed.
47:12The ancestral power didn't just strip her abilities.
47:16It burned black scars across her face.
47:19Permanent.
47:20Never healing.
47:22I dropped her next to Cole.
47:24She clutched her ruined face, rolling on the ground.
47:27Nothing left of the regal blood.
47:29Daughter.
47:30She and Cole.
47:32Both broken.
47:33Lying together in a pool of blood.
47:36A perfect match.
47:38I looked over my shoulder.
47:40You two deserve each other.
47:42Tear each other apart in these ruins.
47:44I turned to Lord Magnus.
47:47Still on his knees.
47:49Shaking.
47:51Ella.
47:52Let me go.
47:53I'll give you everything the clan owns.
47:56He kept smashing his forehead into the stone.
47:59All dignity gone.
48:01The Magnus clan?
48:03I laughed.
48:04I laughed.
48:05Soft.
48:06Full of scorn.
48:08This filthy place makes me sick.
48:12I pressed my palm to his chest.
48:14Ancestral power burned through his veins.
48:17Every blood magic channel in his body.
48:19Destroyed.
48:21His eyes rolled back.
48:22His power vanished.
48:24All of it.
48:26Gone.
48:27His hair turned white in seconds.
48:29Wrinkles crawled across his skin.
48:32He aged decades in a.
48:34Heartbeat and hit the floor.
48:38Without vampire power, time collected its debt.
48:43The shockwave spread.
48:44The walls of the Magnus Hall started weeping black, rotting blood.
48:49Generations of clan lords had poured their blood into the foundations to form a barrier.
48:54With the current lord destroyed, the barrier had no anchor.
48:59The whole structure began to rot from the inside.
49:02Walls cracked.
49:04Pillars snapped.
49:06The ceiling groaned.
49:07Black blood oozed from every fracture.
49:11The stench of decay filled the air.
49:13Guests screamed and stampeded for the exit.
49:16I didn't look back.
49:18I walked to the ancient blood beast waiting outside.
49:21Jumped onto its back.
49:23The beast roared.
49:25Spread its massive bone wings.
49:27Behind.
49:28Me.
49:29Every creature from the.
49:31Wasteland howled in unison.
49:33The night wind caught my gown.
49:35I took one last look at the prison that had held me for 18 years.
49:40Bianca was clawing at Cole's face in the rubble.
49:43Cole was biting her arm with whatever he.
49:45Had left.
49:47Two people who once called themselves noble.
49:50Tearing at each other like wild dogs.
49:52Lord Magnus sat vacant in the ruins.
49:55White haired.
49:56Mumbling to himself.
49:58Julian lay trapped under a fallen slab.
50:02Leg broken.
50:03Screaming for help.
50:05Nobody came.
50:06Exactly what they deserved.
50:09Let's go.
50:10I patted the beast's back.
50:12It launched into the sky.
50:14The blood fob that had hung over Magnus territory for as long as.
50:18Anyone could remember broke apart.
50:20A cold, full moon.
50:23Moonlight spilling down over me.
50:26Silver and unbroken.
50:28Cold, but free.
50:30From today, I, Ella, live only for myself.
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