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Reborn, I Abandoned Phoenix for the Black Snake
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00:03Lyra, thanks to the rare ingredients you hunted for ten years, it is finally perfect.
00:08Now, you can die in peace.
00:18Lyra, you are the strongest here. This golden phoenix is assigned to you.
00:23So arrogant. Only Lyra can tame such a creature.
00:26Rebirth. I am actually back.
00:32Evelyn, your power is too weak. Even if the phoenix is drawn to you now, you won't be able to
00:37handle him.
00:38Lyra, I know I have no right to compete with you, it's just... I've never seen a golden phoenix before
00:43-
00:43Stop it! I've taken a liking to this one.
00:46Lyra! Are you crazy? This black snake is basically worthless!
00:50The phoenix clearly doesn't want me. Why not let her have him? I'll take the snake.
00:54I want to see how that perfect couple managed without me as their stepping stone.
00:58In my past life, I was obsessed. I thought the phoenix disdain was just the pride of a mighty creature.
01:06I took blood-soaked missions just to earn extra elixirs for him, but to the phoenix, I was nothing more
01:11than an errand girl.
01:12Ten years. I spent ten years helping him break through his limits and take human form.
01:18But he despises me very much.
01:22Don't touch me with your filthy, blood-stained hands.
01:25And then one day, I saw him kiss my sister passionately.
01:29She was laughing, dancing around him.
01:31Lyra, you really need to stop asking Evelyn to look after the phoenix when you go on contracts.
01:36When did I ever ask her that? She says it every time you leave.
01:39I saw stars. I'd been out there risking my life, and she was back here, cheating with my phoenix.
01:44I was jealous. I resented her, and I made no shite of it.
01:50It enraged the phoenix. As punishment, he unleashed Leviathan, and it bit me.
01:55Phoenix! Help me!
02:01This is your punishment for resenting Evelyn.
02:08I won't be anyone's sacrifice again. No feeding, no tending. Just rot together.
02:15Since the choice is made, let the spirit pact begin!
02:22Relax. I'm not changing my mind.
02:25You and that serpent really do seem meant for each other, Lyra. Both... worthless.
02:31Watch your tongue, Evelyn! If Lyra hadn't stepped in for you, you'd never have gotten the phoenix!
02:34If I were you, I'd be on my knees thanking her instead of acting like a brat.
02:39I... I didn't mean it that way. I was just...
02:41Oh, stop! She's crying again. Always the victim.
02:44The phoenix realizes it now. Evelyn has almost no spiritual power.
02:49Without my energy, he's just a hungry bird.
02:51Evelyn has no power. Sharing energy with a phoenix will suck her dry.
02:55This is the consequence of choosing weakness.
02:57Mixed bloodline? Serpent and sea folk? You're more than you look.
03:04Relax. I fed a golden phoenix for ten years. I think I can manage one little snake.
03:10Heal up. You're not going anywhere.
03:17Who are you? This is Spirit Pack Academy! Don't try anything!
03:23The... the snake?
03:25Rude. I have a name. It's Kirin.
03:30Please tell me your enemies aren't about to show up here.
03:34We're bonded now. You're the master. I'm your mate.
03:37So I suggest you train hard and try not to slow me down.
03:39It turns out that Kirin is indeed very useful.
03:42He taught me a breathing and absorption technique developed for snakes.
03:45Breathe with the current. Let the water essence fill your soul, not just your veins.
03:52Lyra's advancing so fast! Her talent is unmatched!
03:56He is... ridiculously good looking.
04:07Who is this?
04:08You remember him? The little black snake from the ceremony?
04:12You said yourself we seemed meant for each other.
04:15What do you want? This is training time.
04:19I was hoping we could...
04:22raise the phoenix together.
04:27I'm not your backup plan. Figure it out yourself.
04:30How is it not your responsibility?
04:32You took the black snake and left me with the phoenix!
04:34You don't get to just walk away!
04:36Half a year's gone by and I've given him every elixir I had!
04:38There's nothing left for my own training!
04:40I can't go hunting rare ingredients! I die out there!
04:43You bonded with him first! You should be helping...
04:48Little sister, don't mistake everyone for a fool.
04:50I'm not spending my resources raising your creature for you.
04:54If you can't afford to keep him, dissolve the bond.
04:57Let someone else take him.
04:58I'm sure the elders would be happy to.
05:00Her ambitions are too big to let go.
05:03But her power is too small to hold on.
05:07Let the nightmare begin.
05:12Your little serpent is very clingy, you know.
05:15Clingy? He's been quiet lately.
05:18Kieran?
05:21Lyra, am I not good to you?
05:23Why are you trying to give me away?
05:25What are you talking about?
05:27Evelyn came today.
05:29She said you sent her to check on me because you hit fourth circle and you're done with me!
05:35Smells like fox, Lyra.
05:38Did you already find yourself a replacement?
05:41Doesn't matter.
05:42Once I eat that fox, I'll be your only option.
05:48You hit me for a fox?
05:50That fox belongs to my Archmaster!
05:52You touch her and I will end you!
05:55Evelyn, you really want to play this game again?
06:01Evelyn and the Phoenix went to the back forest.
06:03They looked intense.
06:04The back forest?
06:06The back forest?
06:07They're sneaking off again.
06:08Don't look at me like that!
06:09I've given you every elixir I had and you're still not satisfied!
06:13Stop writing letters!
06:15I'm done reading them!
06:17Lyra's serpent took human form months ago and you can't even talk to me!
06:21In my past life, he gave me nothing for ten years.
06:25Now, he's begging for attention by scratching letters in the dirt.
06:28How pathetic.
06:33Evelyn, I've been looking for you.
06:38What?
06:40What do you need, Lyra?
06:42Hmph.
06:48Just wondering why you paid my companion a visit while I was away.
06:53No!
06:54You've got it wrong!
06:56I was just...
06:57coming to find you!
06:58She entered your territory without permission.
07:01I pushed her out.
07:03She was so weak.
07:04I didn't even need my power.
07:08If I remember correctly, you didn't want him at all.
07:10He was injured.
07:12With you, he wouldn't have survived his second year.
07:14That's not true!
07:15I would have taken care of him!
07:17You just admitted you wanted another phantom.
07:19You're trying to drive a wedge between us!
07:21Next time you touch my creature, you will face the disciplinary council.
07:25Expulsion is a heavy price, little sister.
07:32I didn't mean to!
07:38You seem very familiar with that phoenix, Lyra.
07:41What?
07:42Tell me the truth.
07:44Do you still regret not choosing him?
07:46We have a history.
07:48It ended badly for me.
07:49Wanna hear it?
07:50Hmph.
07:52No.
07:52I'm better than that bird by every measure.
07:55You're not going back to him.
07:56I won't have another mate.
07:58I promise.
07:59Lyra, your growth rate is pathetic.
08:01Sharing energy with you is suffering.
08:04Ten years.
08:05All the elixirs and rare materials went into me this time.
08:09Not the phoenix.
08:13You are a true genius, Lyra.
08:15The Academy is lucky to have you.
08:17Everyone expected the phoenix to save us.
08:19But ten years in, there's still no sign of him breaking through.
08:22It's not enough.
08:23I tried to warn them.
08:24But every time I try to talk about the phoenix betrayal, the words hit a wall.
08:28I can't change what I can't explain.
08:29In my past life, I didn't survive this year.
08:32I don't know if this time will be any different.
08:34With me here, no one dies unless I say so.
08:41You have a bonded partner.
08:43Why are you at my gate?
08:46Right.
08:47Neglecting your own partner just to stand outside another woman's home?
08:50How pathetic.
08:52I walked past the phoenix into the courtyard.
08:54Kieran immediately tried to lean against me.
08:57Honey, I just want that bird to know.
08:58There's no space for him here.
09:01What exactly is here between us?
09:03That's entirely your call.
09:06He left.
09:07Can you stop worrying about him for five minutes?
09:09I have to.
09:11That bird has a dark heart.
09:12I don't trust him.
09:13He regrets it.
09:14He doesn't want to stay with your little sister anymore.
09:18The elders have more resources than me.
09:20If he wanted a new partner, he should have gone to them.
09:24There is only one reason he would come to me specifically.
09:29Unless...
09:29He was reborn too.
09:38If he was reborn too, he knows what's sealed here.
09:41He knows my parents died in this forest.
09:44Knowledge he shouldn't have in this life.
09:47Let's out!
09:52Look at that.
09:53The phoenix won't even listen to her.
09:55He's obsessed with Lyra.
09:56Every time I appear, the phoenix drifts toward me.
09:59If looks could kill,
10:01Erelyn would have had me buried weeks ago.
10:03One afternoon, while Ciaran was coiled around my neck in serpent form,
10:06Elder Celia found the whole thing delightful.
10:09You know what this reminds me of?
10:10One of those stories where the man realizes too late what he had.
10:14He freezes her out at the start,
10:16and then spends the rest of the book chasing her.
10:20Oh, dear!
10:22Lyra, the elders are discussing Evelyn's future.
10:25A bird pulling against its master is a problem for us all.
10:29I could talk to the girl.
10:30Transfer the phoenix over to you, quietly.
10:33We'll offer her a different creature she can actually handle.
10:36Please! Stop talking!
10:38No.
10:40I don't want the phoenix.
10:42I have Ciaran, and that's enough.
10:44Evelyn hasn't advanced in ten years.
10:47The elders are sending her out on a field assignment.
10:50They want her away from the academy.
10:52And away from you.
10:53Senior Lyra is engineering my removal!
10:57She just wants my phoenix!
11:00In front of all the senior elders, Evelyn made her counteroffer.
11:05If Lyra wants the phoenix, she should just say so!
11:07I won't stand in her way!
11:09But if she takes him, she must give me Kaiman in return.
11:13A mixed lindage serpent for a pure-blooded phoenix?
11:16Honestly, Lyra is the one coming out ahead.
11:19You want Kaiman.
11:21You think you're worthy to touch a single hair on his head.
11:25Evelyn! Focus on your phoenix and stop coming up with terrible ideas!
11:29Meanwhile, a disappearance occurred at the biological registry.
11:33Three creatures vanished overnight.
11:34Two rabbits and a unicorn!
11:36I reinforced the gate myself! There was no sound!
11:38The rock face is warded.
11:39Only someone with the academy seal can enter.
11:42This was an inside job.
11:43Not a rogue creature. No trace of that energy anywhere.
11:46Don't be scared.
11:48Big Brother Serpent just looks mean.
11:50He won't eat you.
11:52Keeper,
11:54do creatures ever turn on each other?
11:57What a horrifying thing to say!
11:59They have awareness! They would never!
12:03People do terrible things to each other. Creatures are no different.
12:07There's a dark technique
12:09used by creatures who want to advance without resources.
12:11You want to know how it works?
12:14Consume... the core?
12:16If they want to grow in power fast, there is a shortcut.
12:19Consume the core of another creature.
12:21The higher the level, the faster the gain.
12:24I nearly died ten years ago at the hands of one practicing this.
12:28Once it works, it will come back for more.
12:31Hallmaster! There's an incident at the residences!
12:33Please, come quickly!
12:38Help her! Someone help my fox and she's not breathing!
12:41Your guess was right. The core was removed.
12:44One strike, clean.
12:45It happened before she could make a sound.
12:46She only noticed when she felt the bond break.
12:49It's not just a disappearance anymore.
12:50A killer is stalking the academy.
12:54Don't move yet. You need proof.
12:57Catch him in the act.
12:59Your new firehoud relieved himself on the floor.
13:02I keep all my creatures close.
13:04It's called bonding.
13:06You could clean it up for your teacher?
13:08Absolutely not.
13:12The elders started watching him.
13:14His power has grown noticeably, far beyond what Evelyn's weak energy could explain.
13:20Weeks passed. No more disappearances. No incidents.
13:24He's being careful. He knows we're watching.
13:28Let him wait.
13:29A predator who starves for too long will eventually lose his mind.
13:34Then nothing.
13:36Weeks passed. No more disappearances. No incidents.
13:39Two weeks went by.
13:41The girl never recovered but the others.
13:43They've already turned a tragedy into a legend.
13:46They're forgetting.
13:47Archmaster, we must restrict the Phoenix. Now!
13:51Do you think we don't see it?
13:53But without evidence, what do I tell the students?
13:56If I punish someone without proof, I lose the trust of the whole academy.
14:01Without that trust, we dissolve.
14:02Then one night, while I was deep in meditation,
14:05something flashed past my window.
14:07A pair of red eyes. Bright, gone in an instant.
14:10Kieran! Kieran!
14:12An invitation or a taunt.
14:14He took Kieran.
14:16I reached out through the bond and found Kieran's location.
14:21If you touch him, I will burn your wings to ashes!
14:32When did the Phoenix break through his power? It's not right.
14:39You wanna die?!
14:46Her core, the source of her power, it's gone.
14:50You killed your own bonded partner?!
14:52For her core?!
14:57The bond clause. He broke the ultimate Babu. Heaven is coming for him.
15:01The bond clause. Harm your partner comes from the sky itself. He's lost his mind.
15:05You threw away everything for this moment?
15:07Fine. Let the sky finish you.
15:09You spent ten years plotting against us in my past life.
15:12In this life, you had a chance to change.
15:14But you gutted your own partner for her core!
15:17The sky is watching!
15:19Today, it ends!
15:21Almost. One more step.
15:26Lyra! Hold the creatures back!
15:29I'll work on resealing the forest from out here!
15:32Lyra! You can't stop this!
15:34Come die with me!
15:36I'll do better by you this time, I swear it!
15:39In my past life, I died in this exact forest.
15:43Alone.
15:46You want to take her down with you? Ask me first. You're nobody.
15:51Right. I have Kylan.
15:53This time, I'm not fighting alone!
15:57Hmm.
16:03Serpents hit hard and push forward.
16:07Their partners build the walls.
16:10I finally know what a real bond feels like.
16:16This isn't right!
16:19You're supposed to die!
16:20We're supposed to die together!
16:27Goodbye.
16:31No rebirth for those taken by judgment.
16:34Final and total.
16:39What's in there?
16:40The Levarathan.
16:41Wait out here. I need to go in.
16:43It's dangerous in there!
16:45I know!
16:45Lyra!
16:46In my past life, I died in this forest.
16:48I watched the Phoenix take Evelyn and fly.
16:50I was alone when it happened.
16:51I'm not leaving you behind.
16:53We went in together.
16:54Behind us, faint and distant over the sound of the wind.
16:57Oh, wow.
16:58Who just went in there?
17:00Old man, that's my student.
17:02My student is incredible!
17:07What are you looking for, Kieran?
17:09The Levarathan.
17:10The Levarathan?
17:12We walked directly into the hardest-ful version of this.
17:15Tell me why.
17:16My mother is in there.
17:19I had always assumed Kieran was a cross between a serpent and something from the sea.
17:23He'd never corrected me.
17:25Now I found out.
17:26He did have serpent blood.
17:28But his mother was the Leviathan.
17:30The ancient myth with a human face and a vast scaled body?
17:36Two centuries ago, someone used the dark practice on Kieran's father.
17:40Took his core.
17:41The Leviathan come back from the grief and madness.
17:45I'm here, Kieran.
17:47Whatever we find, we face it together.
17:55If we can't hold them, I'm throwing you to the exit.
17:58When that happens, run. Don't look back.
18:00You told me I was your only companion.
18:02If you don't want to watch these things eat me, protect me.
18:05All the way through.
18:13Kieran!
18:15I'm ascending now!
18:18My fault.
18:19Too eager to see her.
18:21The trial is coming.
18:29Kieran!
18:31Is that her?
18:38Mother!
18:39Don't hurt her!
18:41It's me!
18:42Little K!
18:45Little K!
18:48Kill me!
18:55I can't!
18:59Good child.
19:01You do it.
19:05Reason said destroying the core was mercy.
19:08But this is Kieran's mother.
19:10And now, my ascend is breaking loose.
19:21Goodbye, mother.
19:28Now, I can sleep.
19:32Is this normal for Ascend?
19:33It seems like a lot.
19:34It looks like it wants to kill you.
19:37I think I'm in trouble.
19:38I brought you in here.
19:40Whatever happens, I'm getting you out.
19:42The thunder dropped.
19:43I reached for my power and pushed against it.
19:45When the Leviathan's core had shattered, her energy hadn't simply vanished.
19:49The creatures that had been lurking around the edges came forward, drawn to the loose energy, waiting for me to
19:55fail so they could absorb it.
19:56Instead, my trial landed on them.
19:59Clouds cleared.
20:00The forest went quiet.
20:01Within the month, the seals were fully restored, better than they'd been before.
20:06Then, my third tutor started talking.
20:09My niece, right?
20:10Went into the forest with her serpent.
20:12Alone.
20:13Resolved the Leviathan situation.
20:15Does your sect have anyone like her?
20:17No?
20:17Didn't think so.
20:19Did I mention she's just a young girl?
20:22You got one?
20:23No?
20:23Ha!
20:24Lyra, my own trial is coming.
20:26The elders and I agree.
20:28You're the right person to lead the academy.
20:30The role is yours.
20:31You've been looking for an excuse to step down for years.
20:33And Kyron, I'm officially naming you guardian of the creature registry.
20:37The academy's future is in your hands.
20:41Master, it seems I'll be guarding your home for a long time.
20:46The academy is safe.
20:48We are finally standing at the top.
20:50A viewer.
20:53One that can show a moment from a past life.
20:57I wanted to see what happened after I died.
21:01In the life before this one.
21:04The Leviathan walked to the cemetery and dug carefully.
21:08She found his bones.
21:10That was when she stopped holding back.
21:15She let the darkness in completely.
21:19She went through the spirit-packed academy like fire from dry wood.
21:23The archmaster had tried to seal her.
21:26The archmaster wasn't strong enough.
21:29Not even close.
21:31None of them survived.
21:37I've changed it.
21:39Everything.
21:41In the previous chapter,
21:43Phoenix and Evelyn were running.
21:44And Leviathan smelled Evelyn's scent on his bones.
21:47In that life,
21:48the Phoenix threw Evelyn to the Levarathan to buy himself time.
21:52But it wasn't enough.
21:53He was simply something she hadn't eaten yet.
21:56I didn't feel the revenge satisfaction I imagined.
22:00What I felt was relief.
22:02Quiet and total.
22:07It wasn't vengeance.
22:10It was a correction.
22:11I've warmed this three times.
22:13What are you doing out here?
22:15Nothing.
22:17Just thinking how lucky I am.
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