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00:00:00On graduation day, my fake sister publicly brand me a cheater in front of the entire realm.

00:00:04My parents disowned me, the academy expelled me, and the frenzied crowd demanded my Celestra sigil.

00:00:10I stood there pale and alone, saying the same thing over and over.

00:00:14I did not cheat!

00:00:16Then the sky split open.

00:00:21Monsters swarmed the hall, tearing my abusers apart in screams of terror.

00:00:28I didn't run.

00:00:31Moonboat!

00:00:43But I am the ultimate awakened.

00:00:56Moonboat!

00:00:57Moonboat!

00:01:07Moonboat!

00:01:24The one everyone saw as gentle, graceful, and innocent.

00:01:29Lila, I know the border was cruel to you.

00:01:32I know you came back here with scars none of us can see.

00:01:35I tried to understand that, I really did.

00:01:39But pain does not make this okay.

00:01:42It does not give you the right to take a place someone else spent their whole life fighting for.

00:01:48Look at everyone here.

00:01:51How many of you gave up your childhood for the entrance trial?

00:01:56How many nights did you spend memorizing rooms until your eyes burned?

00:02:01How many times did you walk out of combat practice with your hands bleeding and still come back the next

00:02:07morning?

00:02:08The students' faces changed.

00:02:10Envy.

00:02:11Resentment.

00:02:12Rage.

00:02:14All of it turned straight towards me.

00:02:16And her?

00:02:16She drifted through some Forborder Academy for a few years and now we are supposed to believe she earned a

00:02:23Celeste our acceptance signal?

00:02:26Come on!

00:02:27If that is not cheating, then what is?

00:02:30The hall erupted.

00:02:31Every insult, every glare, every bit of anger came crashing down on me.

00:02:36I stood under the spotlight and said the only thing I needed to say.

00:02:39I did not cheat.

00:02:41But the louder they screamed, the colder I became.

00:02:46Because none of them had any idea what Celestara had really accepted me for.

00:02:58Vivian cried even harder.

00:03:00She did not rush to show evidence.

00:03:01Instead, she made herself look like a victim who had suffered in silence.

00:03:04Lyra, I never wanted it to come to this.

00:03:06You are House Veyra's real daughter.

00:03:07She paused, her face full of wounded restraint.

00:03:11But you went too far!

00:03:12You did not just steal an acceptance sigil!

00:03:14You stole someone's entire future!

00:03:19That pushed the crowd over the edge.

00:03:21A student from a common family clenched his fists.

00:03:25His eyes red with anger.

00:03:27My father worked himself half to death!

00:03:30Just to keep me in training.

00:03:32And I still barely made the reserve list.

00:03:34So how does she just walk straight into Celestara?

00:03:37A girl, a girl from some forgotten border academy gets into Celestara overnight with scores like that?

00:03:42Please, House Veyra must think we're only for the rest of us.

00:03:45The shouting grew louder.

00:03:47The corner of Vivian's mouth tricked.

00:03:48Barely enough for anyone to notice.

00:03:50Then she raised her hand.

00:03:51A stack of old record slabs flew out of her storage ring.

00:03:54And slammed onto the stage with a heavy crack.

00:03:56In Itherian, every student's progress was carved into academic restial lore.

00:04:00Grun theory.

00:04:01Divine history.

00:04:02Celestial lore.

00:04:03Combat basics.

00:04:04Every assessment was permanently recorded.

00:04:06The slabs lit up and projected my results into the air for everyone to see.

00:04:10Rune theory.

00:04:11Bottom of the class.

00:04:11Divine history.

00:04:12Bottom of the class.

00:04:13Celestial lore.

00:04:14Barely passing.

00:04:14Combat basics.

00:04:15Severe lacklacking.

00:04:16The hall went silent for one second.

00:04:18Then it exploded into ugly laughter.

00:04:20Vivian lifted her head.

00:04:21Tears still on her face but her voice was cold as a blade.

00:04:24That is who she really is.

00:04:25Not a victim.

00:04:26Not some hidden genius.

00:04:28Just a fraud with a famous last name.

00:04:31The scores on those record slabs were real.

00:04:34I did not deny it.

00:04:35The laughter from the crowd turned even cooler.

00:04:37She cannot even write a basic fire ray in Rune Theory and she still got into Celestara!

00:04:42Her combat assessment literally says severely lacking.

00:04:44Can she even pull a training bow?

00:04:46That is not just bad.

00:04:47That is hopeless.

00:04:48Vivian waited until the crowd had worked itself into a frenzy.

00:04:52Then she turned the broadcast crystal straight towards me.

00:04:55Lila, are you really gonna stand there and tell everyone these records are fake?

00:04:58No, they are real.

00:05:00The hall broke into chaos.

00:05:02Cheat.

00:05:03Fraud.

00:05:03A flash of satisfaction crossed Vivian's eyes.

00:05:06So the records are real?

00:05:07Good.

00:05:08Then let me ask you something.

00:05:09Lila, with scores like that, Celestara would not even let you carry luggage for their first years.

00:05:15So how did you end up with an acceptance sigil in your hand?

00:05:18Because I was not admitted through any of those courses.

00:05:21Not through normal courses?

00:05:23What is that supposed to mean?

00:05:24Did Celestara recruit you for noble etiquette?

00:05:27Or was it temple choir?

00:05:29Please, Lila, stop embarrassing yourself.

00:05:32Another wave of laughter rolled up from below.

00:05:34The acceptance signal in my pont was growing warm.

00:05:38Inside it was the real mark of the Riftguard order.

00:05:41Not the public academy seal everyone else was staring at.

00:05:44But the mark given only to recruits chosen for the war beyond the rifts.

00:05:48The royal court had buried that war for six years.

00:05:51To ordinary people, the Riftfall was just an old disaster story.

00:05:54The border collapses, the missing villages, the black storms tearing through remote towns.

00:05:58All of it had been explained away as Freakstar side weather.

00:06:00But the truth was much worse.

00:06:02The Rift had opened six years ago, and the Voidborn had been crossing over ever since.

00:06:05Celestara did not just train scholars and court officials behind its shining gates.

00:06:09It trained the Riftguard, the only order allowed to fight what came through those fractures.

00:06:12And the entrance trial had one hidden test no ordinary student ever heard about.

00:06:16Rift, combat, compatibility.

00:06:18The whole hall lost it.

00:06:21People laughed so hard they slapped the tables.

00:06:24Some shouted at the broadcast crystal, calling me shameless.

00:06:27Highest in the realm?

00:06:28She really just scored first in combat?

00:06:30Is she insane?

00:06:31I have seen her on the training field.

00:06:32She could barely keep a basic bow steady.

00:06:34Lila, if you are going to lie, at least make it believable.

00:06:36Every special recruit Celestana has ever accepted as a prodigy trained from childhood.

00:06:40You have been back at House Feta for one month.

00:06:42One month.

00:06:43You still do not know how to sit through a formal dinner without embarrassing yourself.

00:06:47And now you want everyone to believe you ranked first in combat across the entire realm?

00:06:53I did not explain.

00:06:54Because I could not tell them my combat experience had nothing to do with the training field.

00:06:59I had killed Voidward monsters.

00:07:02I had survived at the edge of the sealed rift.

00:07:04I had awakened a crown-grade divine core at 18.

00:07:07But the second any of that left my mouth, I would be leaking classified royal secrets.

00:07:11Vivian saw me go quiet and moved in for the kill.

00:07:13No answer?

00:07:14Then let me say it for you.

00:07:15You never took that hidden test, did you?

00:07:17You paid someone else to take it for you.

00:07:19You did not just cheat on the entrance trial.

00:07:22You cheated on the hidden test too!

00:07:24Some like you should not be allowed anywhere near Celestara!

00:07:30If you are going to accuse someone, bring proof.

00:07:34Vivian, you said you saw me cheat with your own eyes.

00:07:37So where is it?

00:07:39The trial tower records every second of the entrance trial.

00:07:42If you really saw me cheat, then pull the footage from that day and let everyone see it.

00:07:46The moment those words landed, the mood in the room began to shift.

00:07:50In Aetherian, the trial tower's record crystals could not be tampered with by ordinary people.

00:07:55If the footage went public, there would be nothing left to argue about.

00:07:59Either I cheated or I did not.

00:08:01Vivian's face froze.

00:08:03But she recovered fast and let out a sharp cry.

00:08:05Fine! You are right! I was not telling the whole story!

00:08:10Everyone falls.

00:08:11She yanked up her sleeve, exposing her arm.

00:08:15Dark purple bruises ran from her wrist all the way up her forearm.

00:08:18Ugly and raw.

00:08:20Like she had been beaten with a whip and stabbed with needles again and again.

00:08:25I did not report her right away because I was terrified.

00:08:29Ever since Lyra came back to House Vera,

00:08:31she has been hitting me, screaming at me, and threatening me to keep my mouth shut!

00:08:37I finally found the courage to check the trial tower footage.

00:08:40And that same night, the record crystal for that floor shattered.

00:08:43Lyla, are you seriously going to stand there and pretend you had nothing to do with it?

00:08:47The comments turned instantly.

00:08:49The people who had hesitated a moment ago were now calling me vicious, guilty.

00:08:53A liar who destroyed evidence.

00:08:57I looked at the marks on her arm, and something inside me went cold.

00:09:01This was not some desperate lie she made up on the spot.

00:09:04She had planned every single step.

00:09:08Vivian was not finished.

00:09:09She knew that cheating alone would not be enough to bury me for good.

00:09:12She wanted me ruined beyond repair in front of everyone.

00:09:14She hugged her bruised arm to her chest and stepped back, still crying to you.

00:09:17I know you hate me for living the life that should have been yours.

00:09:20But I never tried to fight you for anything.

00:09:22I never asked for any of this.

00:09:23So why are you doing this to me?

00:09:25Why do you have to take my home, take my parents, and knock my place at Celestora too?

00:09:29Those words hit the crowd exactly where she wanted them to.

00:09:31In their eyes, I was the real daughter who had come back to take revenge.

00:09:34Of course I was jealous of Vivian.

00:09:36Of course I was bitter.

00:09:37Of course I wanted to push her out.

00:09:39Lyra, who is protecting you?

00:09:41Who helped you destroy the record crystal?

00:09:45Who has been stopping the trial council from investigating you?

00:09:49Did you go behind your family's back and get close to someone powerful?

00:09:53Is that how you bought your way into Celestora?

00:09:57Disgusting!

00:09:58She dragged the House Veyra name through the mad!

00:10:00We work ourselves to death training, and she buys her spot with her body!

00:10:03Someone like that should just disappear!

00:10:05Let them rage.

00:10:06The truth will outlive their noise.

00:10:08The broadcast crystal carried every word live.

00:10:10People across the realm piled on, tearing me apart without knowing a thing.

00:10:15I listened to all of it.

00:10:17Then I laughed.

00:10:18You are right.

00:10:19There is someone behind me.

00:10:21When he gets here you can ask him yourself.

00:10:25Arthur Hale.

00:10:27I said the name.

00:10:28For one second the hall went dead silence.

00:10:31Then the screaming came back twice as loud.

00:10:33Arthur was the High Warden of Celestora Academy and the top commander of the Riftguard Order.

00:10:37Most people had no idea the Riftguard even existed, but they all knew his name.

00:10:41They knew he had ridden a storm griffith straight through the eye of a storm.

00:10:43They knew even nobles in the royal court did not dare cross him.

00:10:45But right now his name did not clear mine.

00:10:47It only made everything worse.

00:10:48To them it confirmed every ugly theories they already wanted.

00:10:51Why is he so bold?

00:10:51The High Warden himself is mixed up in this!

00:10:53This is exactly how the upper class handles things behind closed doors!

00:10:56Lila, I just want justice!

00:10:58Why are you dragging someone like that into this to scare me?

00:11:01Is this what happens when we go home too?

00:11:03Are you going to punish me again?

00:11:04What is it this time, the whip or the needles?

00:11:06That pushed the crowd completely over the edge.

00:11:09Someone threw a crystal cup at me.

00:11:10Someone else hurled a graduation bouquet with sharp silver branches hid inside.

00:11:14Another person to lit rune stick into my shoulder, burning straight through my sleeve.

00:11:17I did not use my power.

00:11:18The secrecy sealed, I was still active.

00:11:20I could not look at the ceiling what I was capable of.

00:11:23By the time something just split the skin above my eye,

00:11:25she did not look scared at all.

00:11:26She looked satisfied.

00:11:29Then heavy footsteps came from the back of the hall.

00:11:31Headmaster Victor Blake had finally arrived.

00:11:33He ran the Border Academy,

00:11:35and in this building he was the biggest authority Vivian had on her side.

00:11:37Mr. Blake, I did not want it to go this far.

00:11:40But Lila would not stop.

00:11:42She just kept pushing me.

00:11:43Victor saw the marks on her arm,

00:11:45and his expression hardened at once.

00:11:46He did not ask me a single question.

00:11:48He did not pull any records.

00:11:50He did not even tell anyone to shut off the broadcast crystal.

00:11:53He simply moved Vivian behind him,

00:11:54turned to face me,

00:11:55and looked at me like I was something filthy that needed to be thrown out.

00:11:58Ira, Ira, contact Dr. Disgrace!

00:12:00You do not belong at this graduation ceremony!

00:12:03Effective immediately!

00:12:04I am revoking your graduation credentials

00:12:06and removing you from our academic lots.

00:12:09You are no longer a student of this institution.

00:12:12You are expiling a graduating student

00:12:14in front of the entire realm without a single investigation,

00:12:16based only on Vivian's word?

00:12:18Other students deserve investigations.

00:12:20Someone like you does not.

00:12:21I looked at him,

00:12:22and for a second I almost laughed.

00:12:24He had no idea.

00:12:25He was personally throwing away the greatest student this academy had ever produced.

00:12:29Right then, the doors at the back of the hall swung open.

00:12:32A group of officials in grey and silver robes walked in.

00:12:35The trial council had arrived.

00:12:37The officials wore the trial council seal on their chests.

00:12:41The one in front stopped directly before me,

00:12:43his voice flat and hard.

00:12:44The broadcast crystal swung toward them at once.

00:12:47Everyone across the realm was watching,

00:12:49waiting to see me fall.

00:12:51The official continued.

00:12:52Lyra Veyra, we have received a formal report.

00:12:56You are suspected of cheating during the entrance trial

00:12:59and obtaining a Celestar Academy exception signal

00:13:02through improper connections.

00:13:05Pending investigation,

00:13:06the trial council will freeze your acceptance sigil

00:13:08and suspend your eligibility to enter Celestia.

00:13:11Come with us.

00:13:12The crowd below cheered.

00:13:13Finally! Get her out of Celestia!

00:13:15She belongs in the Judgment Tower!

00:13:20I looked down at the signal in my palm.

00:13:22It rested quietly against my skin,

00:13:24glowing silver,

00:13:24with the true rift guard mark sealed inside.

00:13:26Ordinary trial council officials

00:13:28had no authority to freeze it.

00:13:29I looked back up at them.

00:13:30I will cooperate with the investigation.

00:13:32The lead official's expression eased slightly.

00:13:34I kept going.

00:13:35But your clearance level is not high enough to touch this.

00:13:40The hall went completely full in a second.

00:13:42Then the screaming came back loud enough to shake the walls.

00:13:45The official's face went rigid.

00:13:46Take her!

00:13:48Two guards grabbed my arms,

00:13:50and then my birth parents forced their way through the crowd

00:13:52and rushed onto the stage.

00:13:53My mother shoved the guards aside

00:13:55and planted herself in front of me.

00:13:57For one moment,

00:13:57I thought she was finally going to believe me.

00:14:00Then she grabbed my hands,

00:14:01opened her mouth,

00:14:02and the first thing she did was beg me to confess.

00:14:04Clara, please!

00:14:05I am begging you as your mother!

00:14:08Just admit it!

00:14:10We do not need Celestara!

00:14:13Please, let this go!

00:14:15No!

00:14:22Something inside me sank.

00:14:26I did not cheat.

00:14:27I earned that spot.

00:14:29Every part of this from the beginning

00:14:31was Vivian setting me up.

00:14:32My father's face went completely cold.

00:14:35Enough!

00:14:38His hand cracked across my face.

00:14:40Pain burst through my cheek

00:14:42and my head snapped to the side.

00:14:44The entire hall gasped.

00:14:45We brought you home!

00:14:46We gave you the Vera name,

00:14:47and this is how you repay us?

00:14:49By standing here and accusing Vivian?

00:14:51Who the hell do you think you are?

00:14:53Vivian stood behind my mother with red eyes,

00:14:56slowly nodding like she was too hurt to speak.

00:14:58I looked at my father.

00:15:00Of course she is scared of me.

00:15:03She spent 18 years living the life

00:15:05that should have been mine.

00:15:06I said enough!

00:15:07Vivian has spent every day

00:15:08trying to make room for you in this family,

00:15:09and you still cannot stop dragging her down!

00:15:11How much more do you want from her?

00:15:13From this day on,

00:15:14you are no daughter of mine!

00:15:16House Vera has one daughter,

00:15:17and her name is Vivian.

00:15:18Lyara Vera does not exist!

00:15:20My mother dropped to her knees in front of me,

00:15:22sobbing and begging me to back down.

00:15:23Lyla, please just say you are sorry!

00:15:26If you keep this up,

00:15:27you will have nothing left!

00:15:28Everyone was watching.

00:15:29Some called me cold.

00:15:30Some said I had no heart,

00:15:31standing there while my own mother

00:15:32knelt on the floor.

00:15:33But I did not look down,

00:15:34because that moment

00:15:35something cracked open in the sky above us.

00:15:36My head snapped up.

00:15:37The next second,

00:15:38the sky split apart,

00:15:39torn wide by black fractures.

00:15:40A throinders poured through

00:15:41past the buildings

00:15:42and dropped into the hall,

00:15:43their red-slit eyes locking on the crowd below.

00:15:45Screams erupted everywhere.

00:15:46My father and mother grabbed Vivian first

00:15:48and dragged her toward safety.

00:15:49Not one of them looked back at me.

00:15:51I stood among blood and broken crystal,

00:15:53and I laughed.

00:15:54The secrecy seal?

00:15:55It did not matter anymore.

00:15:56I turned and walked forward

00:15:57against the flood of people

00:15:58running the other way.

00:15:59Then I slowly raised my right hand.

00:16:02Moonbow!

00:16:03Silver moonlight gathered at my fingertips

00:16:05and shaped itself

00:16:06into a great bow of starlight.

00:16:08I stood in the middle of the ruined hall,

00:16:10my face calm as the wind screamed down

00:16:12from the broken sky.

00:16:13What the hell is that?

00:16:14The whole hall is falling apart,

00:16:15and she is standing there with a bow like this

00:16:17as some kind of performance.

00:16:18A void-borne crashed through

00:16:20what was left of the ceiling

00:16:21and streaked as it charged toward the stage.

00:16:25Its body was covered in hard black plates,

00:16:28dark green slime dripping from every joint.

00:16:33Its claws ripped deep lines through the floor,

00:16:36throwing dust and shattered stone into the air.

00:16:38I did not move.

00:16:39I held the bow in my left hand

00:16:40and drew back the invisible string of might.

00:16:43In that instant,

00:16:44the scattered starlight around me answered.

00:16:46It rushed into my palm at once

00:16:48when the power divine core surged outward,

00:16:50blasting every piece of debris away

00:16:51before it could touch me.

00:16:53Father!

00:16:54Father!

00:16:55Look at her!

00:16:55She is frozen stiff!

00:16:57She is going to get herself killed

00:16:59and she deserves it!

00:17:01Leave her!

00:17:01Do not waste another second

00:17:03on that cheating piece of trash!

00:17:05Not far away,

00:17:06Duke Valor had his arms wrapped tightly

00:17:08upon a trembling Vivian

00:17:09while two guards half-carried Lady Valor

00:17:11towards the emergency airs.

00:17:13None of them looked back at me,

00:17:15not even once,

00:17:16as if whether I lived or died

00:17:18had nothing to do with their family.

00:17:20I let out a cold laugh

00:17:22and pulled the bowstring all the way back.

00:17:24Burn.

00:17:28I released it.

00:17:31A beam of pure silver light

00:17:33tore through the darkness of the hall.

00:17:44The arrow did not fly at the monster in front of me.

00:17:54It shot straight up

00:17:55through the shattered ceiling

00:17:57and into the open sky.

00:18:00The moment it touched

00:18:01the black fracture above us,

00:18:03the single arrow exploded in mid-air.

00:18:06Powered by my divine core,

00:18:07it split into thousands

00:18:08of blinding beams of moonlight

00:18:10and spread in every direction

00:18:12like a silver storm.

00:18:14Heavy impacts thundered above the hall.

00:18:16The voidborn still crawling

00:18:18through the cracks

00:18:18never even had time to scream.

00:18:20The second that curtain

00:18:21of moonlight touched them,

00:18:23their bodies broke apart

00:18:24and dissolved into the air,

00:18:25leaving only fine black dust

00:18:27drifting down from the sky.

00:18:28The rotten stench

00:18:29that had filled the hall

00:18:30vanished,

00:18:31washed clean by pure light.

00:18:32Every scream in the hall

00:18:33stopped at once.

00:18:34The students and teachers

00:18:36who had been packed together

00:18:37near the outset

00:18:37stood frozen,

00:18:38staring up at the black ash

00:18:40falling from above.

00:18:41What kind of power is that?

00:18:43No standard academy test

00:18:45could ever measure

00:18:45something like this.

00:18:47The broadcast crystal

00:18:48was still hovering in the air.

00:18:49Across the entire realm,

00:18:50millions of viewers

00:18:51who had just watched

00:18:52the screen go dark

00:18:53for a moment

00:18:53were now flooding the comments

00:18:54faster than anyone could read.

00:18:56Can someone explain

00:18:57what just happened?

00:18:57Did that cheating fraud

00:18:58just wipe out a whole wave

00:18:59of voidborn with one arrow?

00:19:03I lowered my bow.

00:19:06The cut above my eye

00:19:07was still bleeding.

00:19:08Blood mixed with sweat

00:19:10and burned as it ran into my eye.

00:19:11But the hand holding the bow

00:19:13did not shake at all.

00:19:18But the riftfall

00:19:19was nowhere near over.

00:19:20The outer barrier

00:19:21had been torn apart

00:19:22and the black ash in the sky

00:19:23was still spreading.

00:19:24Larger voidborn were crawling

00:19:25along the eight edges

00:19:26of the fraction now,

00:19:27their red-slit eyes

00:19:27burning through the dark fog.

00:19:28It's fake!

00:19:29She paid someone

00:19:30to set all of this up!

00:19:30Do not believe her!

00:19:31She is doing this whole show

00:19:32just to clear her name!

00:19:33The clothes were soaked

00:19:33in slime from the monsters

00:19:34and the stench coming off her

00:19:35was almost unbearable.

00:19:36But the envy in her eyes

00:19:38had already swallowed

00:19:38every bit of fear.

00:19:39She is right!

00:19:40A girl from some backwater town

00:19:41with the combat score marks

00:19:42not suddenly have power like this.

00:19:43Someone gave her a defensive artifact.

00:19:45That is the only explanation.

00:19:48Even after watching me

00:19:49do the impossible,

00:19:50they still refused

00:19:52to believe it was mine.

00:19:53In their minds,

00:19:54there had to be

00:19:55a dirty deal behind it.

00:19:57There had to be

00:19:57some powerful person

00:19:58feeding me strength

00:19:59from the shadows.

00:20:00That was enough

00:20:01to poison the room again.

00:20:03Some students

00:20:03who had just started

00:20:04to doubt Vivian

00:20:05looked at me with suspicion,

00:20:06and a few even stepped away.

00:20:07Then a much larger void

00:20:09born tore free

00:20:10from the fracture.

00:20:11It came crashing down

00:20:13less than 10 feet

00:20:14from Vivian.

00:20:15Roaring so hard

00:20:16the whole building shook.

00:20:20The shockwave

00:20:21blasted broken stage

00:20:23into the air.

00:20:27Vivian's legs gave out

00:20:28under the pressure

00:20:29of the creature

00:20:29bearing down on her.

00:20:30She collapsed to the floor

00:20:31like her bones

00:20:31had stopped working.

00:20:32Duke Vera had been

00:20:33standing right in front of her.

00:20:34But the moment he looked up

00:20:35at that monster's face,

00:20:36fear won.

00:20:37He dropped Vivian's arm

00:20:38without thinking

00:20:39and scrambled backward

00:20:39as fast as he could.

00:20:41Lila!

00:20:44What are you just

00:20:44standing there for?

00:20:46Use your illusion magic

00:20:47or whatever that thing is

00:20:50and get it off me!

00:20:51If I die,

00:20:53the Vera family

00:20:54will make you pay for it!

00:20:56Even then,

00:20:57she still spoke

00:20:58like I owed her my life.

00:20:59I did not bother

00:21:00looking at her face.

00:21:02I pushed off the ground

00:21:03and let the storm energy

00:21:04carry me upward,

00:21:06cutting a clean arc

00:21:07through the chaos above.

00:21:08Then I pulled the bowstring

00:21:10back in a reverse draw.

00:21:15The impact was massive.

00:21:17The creature exploded

00:21:18from the inside out

00:21:19and collapsed into a wave

00:21:20of black rain.

00:21:21Every last drowl,

00:21:23sticky green slimes

00:21:24to pouring down

00:21:25at that drenched Vivian

00:21:26from head slow to toe.

00:21:33Black mist hung in the air.

00:21:36The entire hall

00:21:37went completely silent.

00:21:41The students

00:21:42who had been terrified

00:21:43out of their minds

00:21:44slowly came back

00:21:45to themselves.

00:21:46Did we make it?

00:21:48Did Lyra just save

00:21:49all of us?

00:21:50Quiet murmurs

00:21:51spread through the crowd.

00:21:52Many of the common students

00:21:52who had been screaming

00:21:53at me earlier

00:21:54now looked around

00:21:54with guilt

00:21:55and something close

00:21:55to us that gratitude.

00:21:56But before that

00:21:57could spread,

00:21:58Duke Vera's furious voice

00:21:59cut through everything.

00:22:01You disgusting creature!

00:22:03You planned this

00:22:04from the start!

00:22:04You could have moved sooner

00:22:06but you waited

00:22:06until that monster

00:22:07attacked Vivian

00:22:08because you wanted her dead!

00:22:10She frantically wiped

00:22:12at her face

00:22:12with her sleeve

00:22:13and the hatred

00:22:14in her eyes

00:22:15was almost solid.

00:22:16That is exactly

00:22:17what she did.

00:22:17She wanted to ruin

00:22:18my face

00:22:19and ruin my life.

00:22:20You cruel evil woman!

00:22:21The broadcast crystal

00:22:22sent every word

00:22:23live across the realm.

00:22:25This time,

00:22:26the comments

00:22:26began to turn.

00:22:27The broadcast crystal

00:22:29sent every word

00:22:30live across the realm.

00:22:33This time,

00:22:35the comments

00:22:36began to turn.

00:22:39Are the Vale

00:22:40is insane?

00:22:41She just saved

00:22:42their lives

00:22:42and they are

00:22:43attacking her again.

00:22:44The Duke ran faster

00:22:45than anyone in that room

00:22:46and now he wants

00:22:46to act like a

00:22:47protected father?

00:22:48That is just disgusting.

00:22:49Lila!

00:22:50Power does not

00:22:51excuse rotten character.

00:22:52You stood there

00:22:53and let your own

00:22:53family almost die.

00:22:55You are a disgrace

00:22:55to this institution.

00:22:57Expelling you earlier

00:22:58was absolutely

00:22:59the right decision.

00:23:00Victor saw

00:23:02where the wind

00:23:02was turning.

00:23:03Terrified of losing

00:23:04favor with House

00:23:05Valor,

00:23:05he rushed in

00:23:06to pile on.

00:23:10A cry tore

00:23:11through the

00:23:12thunderclouds.

00:23:13Sharp, clean

00:23:14and filled with

00:23:14so much raw power

00:23:15that every monster

00:23:16in the area

00:23:17seemed to flinch

00:23:18from it.

00:23:18The black fractures

00:23:19spreading across the sky

00:23:21actually began to shrink.

00:23:24Everyone looked up

00:23:25without thinking.

00:23:29Through the layers

00:23:30of storm cloud,

00:23:31a creature so enormous

00:23:32it blocked out the sky

00:23:33tore through the lightning

00:23:34and dove toward us,

00:23:35trailing wild bolts

00:23:36of blue electricity.

00:23:37Its wingspan

00:23:38stretched dozens of meters.

00:23:40Silver feathers

00:23:40caught the lightning

00:23:41and flashed

00:23:42with a cold metallic gleam.

00:23:44It was the kind

00:23:45of creature

00:23:45that only appeared

00:23:46in stories

00:23:47about the Imperial

00:23:48Sky Forces.

00:23:49A storm griven.

00:23:52The center

00:23:53of the ruling stage

00:23:54like a hammer.

00:23:54The shockwave

00:23:55sent Victor

00:23:56and Duke Veya

00:23:56flying backward

00:23:57and rolling across the floor.

00:23:58The storm gripe

00:23:59landed beside me.

00:24:00Blue electricity

00:24:01the rooming through

00:24:01its silver feathers

00:24:02and swept rolling off

00:24:03and made every trial

00:24:04council of so official

00:24:05in the room feel smart.

00:24:06This was someone

00:24:07who did not need

00:24:07a single room

00:24:08to draw on the power

00:24:09of the stars.

00:24:11His hair was

00:24:11completely white

00:24:12but the pressure

00:24:13rolling off him

00:24:14made every trial

00:24:15council official

00:24:16in the hall

00:24:16turn pale on the spot.

00:24:18His body carried

00:24:19that power on its own.

00:24:20The highest authority

00:24:21of Celestia Academy.

00:24:24High Warden

00:24:24Arthur Hale.

00:24:25He stepped down

00:24:26from the griffith

00:24:27without sparing a glance

00:24:28the officials

00:24:29already dropped

00:24:29into their knees.

00:24:30He walked straight to me

00:24:31looked at blood

00:24:32on my forehead

00:24:33and the state

00:24:33of my clothes

00:24:34and his expression

00:24:34dartened in an instant.

00:24:36You did this.

00:24:38Three words.

00:24:39They hit the hall

00:24:39like a second shockwave.

00:24:43Victor recognized him

00:24:44the moment he re-looked up.

00:24:48All the color

00:24:49fafter drained

00:24:49of his face

00:24:50and his legs

00:24:51went weak.

00:24:59Victor and Duke Vera

00:25:00could barely breathe

00:25:01under the pressure

00:25:02radiating from Arthur.

00:25:04I watched the broadcast

00:25:05from the floating

00:25:06Citadel.

00:25:07One arrow split

00:25:08into a thousand beams

00:25:09of light

00:25:10and sealed a rift

00:25:11while my personal disciple

00:25:13was being treated

00:25:13like this

00:25:14in your little school.

00:25:15He rested his hand

00:25:17gently on my shoulder.

00:25:18A wave of warm

00:25:19clean energy

00:25:19moved through me

00:25:20at once.

00:25:21The pain above

00:25:21my eye disappeared.

00:25:23The blood,

00:25:23the scorch marks

00:25:24and the stains

00:25:24I in my uniform

00:25:25broke apart

00:25:26in a faint tremor

00:25:27of lightning

00:25:27and dissolved

00:25:28like ash.

00:25:28The moment the word's

00:25:29personal disciple

00:25:30reached the crowd

00:25:31the hall went silent again.

00:25:33Lord Hale,

00:25:34are you saying Lyra

00:25:36is your...

00:25:36That is right.

00:25:37She is this year's

00:25:39top special recruit

00:25:40for Celestera Academy.

00:25:44He turned toward

00:25:45the broadcast crystal

00:25:46floating in the air.

00:25:48His voice came out

00:25:49steady and clear

00:25:50carrying the kind

00:25:51of authority

00:25:52that left no room

00:25:53for argument

00:25:54and reaching

00:25:55every corner

00:25:55of Aetherian.

00:25:57The Riftfall

00:25:58six years ago

00:25:59was not a star storm.

00:26:01It was a voidborne

00:26:03invasion.

00:26:04The royal court

00:26:04sealed the truth

00:26:05to keep the realm

00:26:06from falling into panic.

00:26:08Lyla spent those years

00:26:09alone at the border

00:26:10hunting voidborne

00:26:12in the fracture zones.

00:26:14Her Rift Combat Score

00:26:15is the highest

00:26:16in the entire realm.

00:26:17He paused

00:26:18and his gaze

00:26:19cut across the room.

00:26:21Her divine core

00:26:22has crown grade purity.

00:26:24The kind that appears

00:26:25once in a thousand years.

00:26:28Cheat?

00:26:29She could stand here

00:26:30doing nothing.

00:26:31And she would still be

00:26:33something none of you

00:26:34could ever reach.

00:26:37The live comment feed

00:26:39across the realm

00:26:39completely crashed.

00:26:41Every student

00:26:41who had called me

00:26:42a cheating fraud

00:26:43moments ago

00:26:44now looked like

00:26:44they had seen a ghost.

00:26:45The common students

00:26:46stared at me

00:26:47with something

00:26:48close to awe and fear.

00:26:49Several noble students

00:26:51who had thrown things

00:26:52at me

00:26:52dropped straight

00:26:53to their knees

00:26:53shaking.

00:26:55That is impossible.

00:26:58It is impossible!

00:27:00She is a nobody

00:27:02from a garbage school.

00:27:03How could someone

00:27:04who failed

00:27:05every academic test

00:27:06get into Celeste?

00:27:07Vivian screamed it

00:27:08with everything

00:27:09she had left

00:27:09throwing herself

00:27:11against a truth

00:27:12she could not accept.

00:27:15Academic tests

00:27:16find clerks

00:27:17for royal court

00:27:18paperwork.

00:27:19Real strength

00:27:20is what stands

00:27:21between this world

00:27:22and total destruction

00:27:23at the border.

00:27:25Arthur let out

00:27:25a cold sound

00:27:26and the force of it

00:27:27knocked Vivian off her feet.

00:27:28She landed face first

00:27:30in a puddle of

00:27:30void-borne slime

00:27:31on the floor.

00:27:32Victor scrambled

00:27:32over to Arthur

00:27:33on his hands and knees

00:27:34and pressed his forehead

00:27:35to the ground.

00:27:36Lord Hale

00:27:36this was all

00:27:37a terrible misunderstanding.

00:27:39The school had no idea

00:27:40about any of this.

00:27:45Lyra has always

00:27:46been our pride and joy.

00:27:48We were absolutely

00:27:49going to keep

00:27:50her academic record

00:27:51intact

00:27:52and we even approved

00:27:53a one million

00:27:55spirit crystal

00:27:56scholarship

00:27:57in her honor.

00:27:59This was a completely

00:28:00different man

00:28:01from the one

00:28:01who had just called

00:28:02me a disgrace

00:28:03with rotten character.

00:28:05I looked at him

00:28:06without blinking.

00:28:07Victor,

00:28:08that is not

00:28:09what you said.

00:28:09when you took

00:28:12my graduation credentials.

00:28:24Get out.

00:28:27why?

00:28:32You gave me

00:28:33the mate bond

00:28:34last night

00:28:34and today

00:28:35you let Serena

00:28:35come back

00:28:36just to humiliate me?

00:28:37Is this your doing?

00:28:39A temporary bond

00:28:40means absolutely

00:28:41nothing, Ava.

00:28:43Then what the hell

00:28:44was last night?

00:28:46A game?

00:28:47Blood Moon Madness.

00:28:48Nothing more.

00:28:49So I'm just

00:28:50the consequence

00:28:51of your lack

00:28:52of control?

00:28:53Don't flatter yourself.

00:28:54you aren't that important.

00:28:55Know your place, Ava.

00:28:57You do not belong

00:28:58to the Blackthorn Pack

00:28:59and you will never

00:28:59be my Luna.

00:29:05Fine.

00:29:07As you wish,

00:29:08your majesty.

00:29:10The bathhouse

00:29:11next to the Alpha's

00:29:12chamber.

00:29:13Scrub the stone

00:29:14your knees.

00:29:18Did you hear him?

00:29:20You are not his Luna.

00:29:21You aren't even

00:29:22worthy of being

00:29:23his wolf.

00:29:26Humans are just

00:29:27humans.

00:29:28Even if the Alpha

00:29:29took a bite out of you,

00:29:31you're still just

00:29:32leftover meat

00:29:33to a beast.

00:29:44Oh my bad.

00:29:45Human hands

00:29:46are always so clumsy.

00:29:47Start over.

00:29:51Remember,

00:29:53a piece of trash

00:29:54like you

00:29:54should be grateful

00:29:55the Alpha

00:29:56even looked your way.

00:29:58Don't go dreaming

00:30:00about the Luna throne.

00:30:04We'll see

00:30:05who gets thrown

00:30:05out of this castle

00:30:06first, Serena.

00:30:13No.

00:30:15I can't.

00:30:17She has to

00:30:18stay away from me.

00:30:19But Alpha,

00:30:20she truly believes

00:30:21you've abandoned her.

00:30:24Let her believe it.

00:30:25It's the only way.

00:30:31I'm sorry, Ava.

00:30:34What are you standing

00:30:35around for?

00:30:36The Alpha King

00:30:37loathes filth

00:30:38above all else.

00:30:40Especially

00:30:40a human parasite

00:30:42creeping around

00:30:43his castle.

00:30:44That's the lowest

00:30:45kind of fill

00:30:47there is.

00:30:47The stone walls

00:30:48must be entirely

00:30:49free of water spots.

00:30:51Not a single

00:30:51footprint on the floor.

00:30:53And the Alpha's

00:30:54copper basin

00:30:55must be scrubbed

00:30:56every half hour.

00:30:59Oops.

00:31:00Looks like you

00:31:01missed a spot here.

00:31:03You literally

00:31:04just smeared

00:31:05that on the wall.

00:31:06Oh?

00:31:07And who exactly

00:31:08saw me do that?

00:31:09Typical human,

00:31:10incapable of doing

00:31:11basic chores,

00:31:12always whining

00:31:13and making excuses.

00:31:19Alpha,

00:31:20should I step in

00:31:21and put a stop

00:31:21to Serena's games?

00:31:24No.

00:31:26Lady Ava's hands.

00:31:28The skin is already

00:31:29splitting from the

00:31:30cold water.

00:31:31Prepare the

00:31:32laurel healing

00:31:32salve.

00:31:33Deliver it to her

00:31:34but ensure she has

00:31:35no idea it came

00:31:36from me.

00:31:37She will assume

00:31:37it's just standard

00:31:38issue grease

00:31:38from the scullery.

00:31:39Let her believe

00:31:40exactly that.

00:31:46Standard scullery

00:31:47ointment.

00:31:47Put it on.

00:31:49Since when does

00:31:50the scullery brigade

00:31:50hand out high-grade

00:31:51elixirs to human

00:31:52servants?

00:31:53Use it or

00:31:53throw it away.

00:31:58I looked down

00:31:59at Lady Veyra

00:31:59allowed to

00:31:59believe me.

00:32:00Duke Veyra

00:32:01announced in front

00:32:02of the Hiram

00:32:02that he's cutting

00:32:02all ties with me.

00:32:03House Veyra

00:32:04has one daughter

00:32:04ever risen

00:32:05by Nator's words.

00:32:06Lyra, I said

00:32:06that out of anger.

00:32:07You have Veyra

00:32:08blood in your veins.

00:32:08How can you

00:32:09BB this cold?

00:32:09I returned

00:32:10under the Veyra

00:32:10name.

00:32:10The family would

00:32:11gain more influence

00:32:11the royal court

00:32:12than they'd ever

00:32:13dared to dream of.

00:32:13When the truth

00:32:14was still unclear,

00:32:15you decided

00:32:15I was guilty.

00:32:16You demanded

00:32:17that I confess.

00:32:18You did not

00:32:19care about my

00:32:19bloodline then.

00:32:20She is my

00:32:20only person

00:32:21and the top

00:32:22recruit of the

00:32:22Riftguard order.

00:32:23Anyone who lays

00:32:24a hand on her

00:32:25is declaring war

00:32:26on Celestara.

00:32:26Arthur's declaration

00:32:27hit the hall

00:32:28like a thunderclap

00:32:29and shattered

00:32:30the last of

00:32:31Duke Veyra's

00:32:31illusions.

00:32:33We are sorry

00:32:34Chief Lyra.

00:32:35We were stupid.

00:32:36We were wrong

00:32:37about you.

00:32:38I stood beside

00:32:39the Storm Griffith

00:32:40and gave a small

00:32:41wave.

00:32:42Let's go old

00:32:42man.

00:32:43The air in here

00:32:44smells terrible.

00:32:45No respect

00:32:47at all you

00:32:47little brat.

00:32:57He grabbed

00:32:58my hand

00:32:59and pulled

00:32:59me onto

00:33:00the Griffith's

00:33:01back in one

00:33:01smooth motion.

00:33:05The Storm Griffith

00:33:06spread its wings.

00:33:07Blue lightning

00:33:08surged into the

00:33:08sky, with

00:33:09thousands of

00:33:10people on the

00:33:10ground and

00:33:10millions more

00:33:11watching through

00:33:11broadcast crystals.

00:33:13All of them

00:33:13carrying their

00:33:14own mix of

00:33:14envy, shock

00:33:15and regret.

00:33:16We turned

00:33:16into a streak

00:33:17of light and

00:33:17vanished into

00:33:18the clouds.

00:33:18As for Vivian,

00:33:19she was left

00:33:20behind in the

00:33:20ruins with

00:33:21trial council

00:33:21restraint cuffs

00:33:22locked around

00:33:23her wrists.

00:33:24Whatever waited

00:33:24for her in the

00:33:25judgment tower

00:33:25would not be

00:33:26pleasant.

00:33:26The Vera family

00:33:27name was

00:33:27finished too.

00:33:28The wind

00:33:28screamed past

00:33:29us at

00:33:30altitude.

00:33:30The same

00:33:31high warden

00:33:32who had just

00:33:32stood in

00:33:32front of a

00:33:33hall full of

00:33:33people and

00:33:34killed monsters

00:33:34with a wave

00:33:35of his mist

00:33:36now flopped

00:33:36down on the

00:33:37Griffith's back,

00:33:38yanked his

00:33:38collar open with

00:33:39absolutely no

00:33:40dignity, and

00:33:41pulled a

00:33:41half-eat bag of

00:33:42dried spirit fruit

00:33:43from his storage

00:33:44ring.

00:33:44Kid, be

00:33:45honest, was

00:33:46my entrance

00:33:46cool or what?

00:33:47That speech was

00:33:48solid, right?

00:33:49It was cool, old

00:33:50man.

00:33:51It would have

00:33:51been perfect if

00:33:52you had not

00:33:52left a scorched

00:33:53lightning smell all

00:33:54over my uniform.

00:33:55I looked at the

00:33:56slightly charred edge

00:33:57of my sleeve with a

00:33:58mix of annoyance

00:33:59and affection.

00:34:00That was for

00:34:01atmosphere, obviously.

00:34:02Here, have a fruit.

00:34:02I skipped a royal

00:34:03court breakfast meeting

00:34:04to come get you.

00:34:04Once we land at

00:34:05Celestara, you are

00:34:06coming with me to

00:34:06borrow some of the

00:34:07old drunks private...

00:34:08the high warden

00:34:09of the sacred

00:34:09hall stealing wine.

00:34:10If a broadcast

00:34:11crystal ever caught

00:34:12that, your whole

00:34:13image would be

00:34:14dead.

00:34:16I rolled my eyes,

00:34:19but I could not

00:34:20stop the corner of

00:34:21my mouth from

00:34:21lifting.

00:34:23In this entire

00:34:24world, Arthur was

00:34:26the only person I

00:34:27could completely let

00:34:28my guards down

00:34:29around.

00:34:32The storm

00:34:33griffon broke

00:34:34through the last

00:34:34layer of storm

00:34:35cloud, and the

00:34:36world opened up

00:34:36all at once.

00:34:37High above the

00:34:38nine heavens,

00:34:39massive white

00:34:39stone halls rose

00:34:40along the edges

00:34:40of each island.

00:34:41Towers pierced

00:34:42the clouds, and

00:34:42blue starfire burned

00:34:43at every peak

00:34:44without going out.

00:34:45There were no

00:34:45ordinary bridges

00:34:45between the

00:34:46islands.

00:34:46Silwing trains

00:34:47glided along the

00:34:48tracks like

00:34:48shooting stars

00:34:49crossing the

00:34:49sky.

00:34:50Higher up,

00:34:51awakened riders

00:34:51on winged

00:34:52horses and

00:34:52griffles swept

00:34:53through the

00:34:53clouds.

00:34:53Some wore

00:34:54academy robes,

00:34:55some silver

00:34:55armor with

00:34:55rune-carved

00:34:56weapons at

00:34:56their sides.

00:34:57There were

00:34:57no crumpling

00:34:57stone walls

00:34:58here, and

00:34:58none of the

00:34:59cramped halls

00:34:59from my old

00:35:00border academy.

00:35:01Every tower and

00:35:01every flag said

00:35:02the same thing

00:35:03without a single

00:35:03word.

00:35:04This place was

00:35:05not built for

00:35:05the weak.

00:35:06Welcome to

00:35:06Celeste Air

00:35:07Academy, the

00:35:07highest institution

00:35:08in the entire

00:35:09realm.

00:35:09No one here

00:35:09looked at me

00:35:10the way people

00:35:10had back home.

00:35:11There was no

00:35:12contempt,

00:35:12no cessation

00:35:13union, only

00:35:13the sharp

00:35:13respect people

00:35:14can't give us

00:35:15and gen high

00:35:15run the highest

00:35:16longer than

00:35:16them.

00:35:16Lyra, this is

00:35:17your home now.

00:35:17I already had

00:35:18your room set

00:35:18up in the

00:35:19best tower on

00:35:19campus.

00:35:20It even has

00:35:20a private

00:35:20spirit spring.

00:35:21He patted

00:35:21my shoulder,

00:35:22then immediately

00:35:23launched into

00:35:23an enthusiastic

00:35:24retelling of

00:35:25my solo kills

00:35:26against high-level

00:35:26voidborne at

00:35:32the massive

00:35:33trial spire

00:35:33rising into

00:35:34the clouds

00:35:34not far away

00:35:35and the fingers

00:35:36hidden in my

00:35:36sweet slowly

00:35:37curled.

00:35:38The mess with

00:35:38Vivi and the

00:35:39Veya family

00:35:39was over.

00:35:40But what was

00:35:41waiting for me

00:35:41had only just

00:35:42begun.

00:35:54Life at

00:35:55Celeste Artra

00:35:56settled into

00:35:56a rhythm

00:35:57pretty quickly.

00:35:58Between

00:35:59poor training

00:35:59sessions with

00:36:00the Riftguard

00:36:01unit and

00:36:01getting dragged

00:36:02into Arthur's

00:36:03endless campus

00:36:04trouble.

00:36:04The days

00:36:05filled themselves.

00:36:09But some

00:36:10dogs never

00:36:11stopped barking.

00:36:12Do not think

00:36:13having the

00:36:13High Warden as

00:36:14your teacher

00:36:14makes you

00:36:15untouchable,

00:36:15Lyla.

00:36:16My mother is

00:36:17gravely ill

00:36:17because of

00:36:18what you did

00:36:18to her.

00:36:19And the

00:36:19noble council

00:36:20at the

00:36:20royal court

00:36:20is not going

00:36:21to let this

00:36:21go.

00:36:22Your time

00:36:22is coming.

00:36:23Is that

00:36:24the real

00:36:24daughter?

00:36:25I heard

00:36:25she completely

00:36:26abandoned

00:36:26her own

00:36:26family.

00:36:27Her own

00:36:27mother is

00:36:27seriously ill

00:36:28and she

00:36:28will not

00:36:28even visit

00:36:29her.

00:36:29How heartless

00:36:30can someone

00:36:30be?

00:36:31Different

00:36:31place.

00:36:32Same

00:36:32poison.

00:36:33This time

00:36:34it was just

00:36:34dressed up

00:36:35as a rumor.

00:36:35With everyone

00:36:36around me

00:36:36pointing and

00:36:37whispering I

00:36:38did not even

00:36:38bother to

00:36:39look up.

00:36:39I was just

00:36:40about to

00:36:40summon Moonbow

00:36:41and remind

00:36:42Vivian

00:36:42exactly who

00:36:43she was

00:36:43dealing with.

00:36:50Then the

00:36:50hedge beside

00:36:51the path

00:36:51rustled.

00:36:53A rumpled

00:36:53man stepped

00:36:54out of

00:36:54the hedge.

00:36:55His hair

00:36:56sticking up

00:36:57in every

00:36:57direction and

00:36:58his coat

00:36:58creased like

00:36:59he had just

00:36:59woken up in

00:37:00a stable.

00:37:01Lord

00:37:02hail!

00:37:02I am

00:37:03Vivian of

00:37:03House

00:37:04Vera.

00:37:04Lyra abandoned

00:37:05her own

00:37:05mother without

00:37:06a shred of

00:37:06decency.

00:37:07How could

00:37:07someone like

00:37:08that be

00:37:08worthy of

00:37:08being your

00:37:09personal

00:37:09disciples?

00:37:10She must

00:37:10have tricked

00:37:11you!

00:37:11Vera,

00:37:11right that

00:37:12ridiculous

00:37:12family where

00:37:13the Duke

00:37:13dropped his

00:37:13own daughter

00:37:14and ran

00:37:14the second

00:37:14things got

00:37:15dangerous

00:37:15while the

00:37:15lady cried

00:37:16and begged

00:37:16someone else

00:37:17to take

00:37:17the blame.

00:37:18Lyra,

00:37:19what was she

00:37:19saying?

00:37:20That you

00:37:20are cold

00:37:21blooded?

00:37:22Funny,

00:37:22because I

00:37:22remember

00:37:23someone

00:37:23bloodily

00:37:23confiscating

00:37:24my 300

00:37:25year old

00:37:25star cigars

00:37:26last night.

00:37:26Still performing

00:37:27for me,

00:37:27I see.

00:37:28You were

00:37:29smoking in the

00:37:30combat training

00:37:30field while

00:37:31staring at the

00:37:32water temple

00:37:32of these

00:37:32priesters

00:37:33rehearsing

00:37:33next door.

00:37:36That,

00:37:37that is

00:37:38a complete

00:37:39lie!

00:37:40That was

00:37:41artistic

00:37:42appreciation!

00:37:43Outer Court

00:37:44students,

00:37:44who had been

00:37:45bracing for a

00:37:45dramatic

00:37:46confrontation,

00:37:47stood there

00:37:47with their

00:37:47mouths hanging

00:37:48open.

00:37:49This was the

00:37:49legendary High

00:37:50Warden who

00:37:50could split

00:37:51the sky

00:37:51with a

00:37:51single

00:37:52strike?

00:37:54Lord

00:37:54Hale,

00:37:55you are the

00:37:55backbone of

00:37:56this empire!

00:37:57How can

00:37:57you defend

00:37:58someone so

00:37:58heartless towards

00:37:59her own

00:37:59family?

00:38:00The Royal

00:38:00Council will

00:38:01never accept

00:38:01her!

00:38:02The Royal

00:38:02Council?

00:38:03You mean

00:38:03that pack of

00:38:03Rallocites

00:38:04who have never

00:38:04seen a void

00:38:05and up close

00:38:05and spend

00:38:06all day

00:38:06counting gold

00:38:07from padded

00:38:07chairs?

00:38:08Why would I

00:38:08care what

00:38:09they think?

00:38:09And you,

00:38:10a Bottom

00:38:11Lear

00:38:11Observer

00:38:12trainee,

00:38:12who gave

00:38:13you permission

00:38:14to make

00:38:14a scene

00:38:14in my

00:38:15Outer Court

00:38:15Plaza?

00:38:16Since you

00:38:17love the

00:38:17glory of

00:38:18the Era

00:38:18Bloodline

00:38:19so much,

00:38:20let me send

00:38:21you right

00:38:21back to it.

00:38:26Lila,

00:38:27just wait!

00:38:28At next month's

00:38:29Skyborn trial,

00:38:30I will claim

00:38:31the most powerful

00:38:32mountain

00:38:32existence

00:38:33and crush

00:38:34and crush

00:38:34every last

00:38:35piece of

00:38:35your pride

00:38:36in front

00:38:36of the

00:38:37whole

00:38:37court!

00:38:39Her screaming

00:38:40faded as she

00:38:41flew in a

00:38:41perfect arc

00:38:42over the edge

00:38:42of Celestata's

00:38:43floating island

00:38:44and disappeared

00:38:45into the forest

00:38:46below.

00:38:47The students

00:38:48nearby went

00:38:49completely silent

00:38:50and immediately

00:38:51pretended to be

00:38:52very busy

00:38:52with their

00:38:53room texts.

00:38:56Lyra,

00:38:57see how well

00:38:57I take care

00:38:58of you?

00:38:58As a thank you,

00:38:59can you cover my

00:39:00library monitoring

00:39:01stiff this afternoon?

00:39:02I want to go

00:39:02fishing.

00:39:04Not a chance.

00:39:06Go yourself.

00:39:09Half a month

00:39:10passed in a blink.

00:39:12Celestia Academy

00:39:12welcomed the

00:39:13biggest event

00:39:13of the year,

00:39:14the Skybond trial.

00:39:16In Aetherian,

00:39:17once an Awakener

00:39:17turned 18

00:39:18and their Divine

00:39:19Core had stabilized,

00:39:20they had to travel

00:39:21to the Sacred Mountain

00:39:21at the heart

00:39:22of the Divine Realm

00:39:23and form a soul bond

00:39:24with their Skymount.

00:39:25This was not just

00:39:26a display of strength.

00:39:27It determined your rank

00:39:28in the Skyforces

00:39:29for the rest of your life.

00:39:30Ordinary Awakeners

00:39:31could only attract

00:39:32standard-winged horses

00:39:33or Traineen Griffians.

00:39:35Only those

00:39:35with the highest

00:39:36Divine Bloodlines

00:39:37had a shot at bonding

00:39:38with a purebred Storm

00:39:39Griffian.

00:39:40At the foot

00:39:40of the Sacred Mountain,

00:39:42banners flew everywhere.

00:39:43Not just Academy

00:39:44students by the

00:39:45tens of thousands

00:39:46but top-ranking

00:39:47Royal Court Nobles

00:39:48and heads of the

00:39:48Great Houses

00:39:49had all turned up.

00:39:50Duke and Lady Vera

00:39:51sat at the outer edge

00:39:52of the noble seats

00:39:53looking grim.

00:39:54The scandal

00:39:54at the graduation session

00:39:56had pushed them

00:39:56to the margins

00:39:57of Royal Court politics

00:39:58and they desperately

00:39:59needed a wind

00:40:00to claw their way back.

00:40:01Vivian,

00:40:02whom they had somehow

00:40:03brought back with them,

00:40:04stood in the trainee line

00:40:05and pendant that radiated

00:40:07violent divine energy.

00:40:08The pendant gave off

00:40:09an ancient aura

00:40:10that felt deeply wrong.

00:40:12Lila,

00:40:13on this stage,

00:40:15with the whole realm

00:40:16watching,

00:40:17I am going to show you

00:40:19what happens

00:40:20when Arthur

00:40:20is not here to hide you.

00:40:22You are still

00:40:23a border nobody

00:40:24who cannot even

00:40:25attract a winged horse!

00:40:33She stared at me

00:40:34from across the crowd

00:40:35and slowly dragged

00:40:37a finger across her throat,

00:40:39the madness in her eyes

00:40:40fully exposed.

00:40:43The trial began.

00:40:44Wave after wave

00:40:45of young awakeners

00:40:46stepped onto the summoning circle

00:40:48at the mountain's peak.

00:40:49Some drew silver-winged horses

00:40:51and the crowd roared.

00:40:52Some only managed

00:40:53flightless birds

00:40:54with stubby wings

00:40:55and got laughed at.

00:40:56Then it was Vivian's turn.

00:40:58She walked up to the circle

00:40:59with her chin raised,

00:41:01bit her finger

00:41:02and let the blood drip

00:41:03onto the gold pendant

00:41:04on her chest.

00:41:05The pendant exploded

00:41:06with a dark gold light.

00:41:08It carried the pressure

00:41:09of an ancient divine bloodline

00:41:10and underneath it,

00:41:12barely detectable,

00:41:13was the unmistakable

00:41:14taint of the void.

00:41:15A cry rang out

00:41:16from deep inside

00:41:17the sacred mountain.

00:41:18An adult storm-griven,

00:41:19smaller than Arthur's

00:41:20but still enormously powerful,

00:41:22was yanked forward

00:41:22by the pull of that energy.

00:41:23It screamed in fury

00:41:25and came down

00:41:25from the clouds

00:41:26against its will,

00:41:27landing in front of Vivian.

00:41:28The process looked wrong,

00:41:29but the appearance

00:41:30of a purebred storm-grim

00:41:32still sent the crowd

00:41:33into thunderous applause.

00:41:34Ha!

00:41:35That is my daughter!

00:41:37A storm-griffal!

00:41:39The Vera family

00:41:40is destined to rise again!

00:41:43Duke Vera

00:41:44was red with excitement,

00:41:45deliberately throwing

00:41:46a smug look at Arthur

00:41:48and I in the main seats.

00:41:49Lila!

00:41:50Are you watching?

00:41:51This is what real talent

00:41:53looks like!

00:41:53I'm a grill rider now!

00:41:55What do you have?

00:41:55Do you think that little bow

00:41:56of yours can shoot

00:41:57a grivel down

00:41:58and make it kneel?

00:41:59She stood beside the griffon

00:42:00and screamed at me,

00:42:01pouring out every bit

00:42:02of humiliation

00:42:02she had been holding in

00:42:04for the past two weeks.

00:42:05Plenty of nobles

00:42:06in the crowd

00:42:06who did not know

00:42:07the full skeet

00:42:08nodded along,

00:42:08genuinely shocked

00:42:09by what looked

00:42:10like a Vera comeback.

00:42:12With the crowd

00:42:13going wild

00:42:14and Vivian screaming

00:42:15at me,

00:42:16Arthur only yawned,

00:42:17picked at his boot

00:42:18and handed me

00:42:18a peeled spirit fruit.

00:42:20Lyra?

00:42:21Lyra, go ahead,

00:42:22show these people

00:42:22who have clearly

00:42:23never seen anything

00:42:24impressive in their lives

00:42:25what highest in the realm

00:42:27actually means.

00:42:28I brushed the fruit peel

00:42:29from my hand

00:42:29and walked down

00:42:30from the main seats

00:42:31with everyone watching.

00:42:32I did not go

00:42:33to the summoning circle.

00:42:34I walked straight

00:42:35to the cliff

00:42:35at the very edge

00:42:36of the sacred mountain.

00:42:37I stood there

00:42:38in the high wind

00:42:39and slowly closed my eyes.

00:42:40Inside me,

00:42:42the crown grey

00:42:42divine core

00:42:43ignited at full power.

00:42:44The impact landed

00:42:45like a physical force.

00:42:47A column of pure

00:42:48flask of silver light

00:42:49erupted from my body

00:42:50and tore straight

00:42:51through the sacred mountain's

00:42:52ancient protective barrier

00:42:53shooting up

00:42:53into the star sea above.

00:42:54The entire mountain

00:42:55began to shake.

00:42:56The clear sky

00:42:57went dark in an instant.

00:42:59Stars appeared

00:42:59in broad daytime

00:43:00and gathered into

00:43:01a brilliant river of light

00:43:02across the heavens.

00:43:03At the far end

00:43:04of that river,

00:43:05a massive divine grey

00:43:06stepped into view.

00:43:07Its coat was pure white

00:43:08without a single mark

00:43:09and its antlers

00:43:10looked as if

00:43:10they had been carved

00:43:11from silver.

00:43:12It ran towards me

00:43:13across the sky,

00:43:14each step blooming

00:43:14with a silver.

00:43:15Each step left a trail

00:43:16of pure silver star blossoms

00:43:17floating behind it.

00:43:18In the legends

00:43:19of the divine realm,

00:43:20this creature only appeared

00:43:21alongside the moon

00:43:22god herself,

00:43:23the moon's steam.

00:43:24The moment it landed,

00:43:25every sky mount

00:43:26at the foot of

00:43:27sacred mount

00:43:27dropped to its knees

00:43:28without exceptions of them,

00:43:30including the storm griffle

00:43:31that had stood proudly

00:43:32beside Vivian's ago,

00:43:34pressed themselves

00:43:34to the ground

00:43:35and let with small,

00:43:36frightened total submission.

00:43:38The entire outer grounds

00:43:40of the sacred mountain

00:43:41went as quiet

00:43:42as a tomb.

00:43:43Tens of thousands

00:43:44of riders,

00:43:45nobles,

00:43:45and academy instructors

00:43:47stood and watched

00:43:47their mounts collapse

00:43:48to the ground

00:43:49like they had lost

00:43:50all strength,

00:43:51not one of them

00:43:52daring to lift their head.

00:43:53The storm griffle

00:43:54that had been so impressive

00:43:55just moments ago

00:43:56now had its massive head

00:43:58buried completely

00:43:59under its wing,

00:44:00its huge body

00:44:01shaking violently

00:44:02with fear.

00:44:02Get up right now!

00:44:04You are a storm griffle!

00:44:06You do not bow to a deer!

00:44:09Vivian yanked

00:44:10at the reins in a panic,

00:44:11her face twisted

00:44:13almost beyond recognition,

00:44:14but no matter how hard

00:44:16she forced her energy

00:44:17into the griffle,

00:44:19it lay there

00:44:20as if it were dead,

00:44:22completely unable to move.

00:44:23I stepped across

00:44:24the star blossom path

00:44:25that floated in the air

00:44:27and walked up

00:44:28to the moon stag.

00:44:29Its great silver antlers

00:44:30dipped gently against my palm

00:44:32and it let out a clear

00:44:33bell-like cry.

00:44:34Duke Veyra shot to his feet

00:44:36in the noble seats,

00:44:37his expression going

00:44:38from shock to envy

00:44:39to something close

00:44:39to frenzy desperation.

00:44:41This cannot be real!

00:44:43The moon stag is a myth!

00:44:45There is no way

00:44:46a mixed-bled girl

00:44:47from the border

00:44:48could summon it!

00:44:49She must be using

00:44:50forbidden void magic!

00:44:53Lord Hail!

00:44:54As a hereditary imperial duke,

00:44:56I formally file a complaint.

00:44:58Lila used corrupted power

00:44:59during the Skyvon trial.

00:45:01That creature is not

00:45:02a divine beast!

00:45:03It is a void monster

00:45:04in disguise!

00:45:06Accusations spread like weeds

00:45:07the moment someone

00:45:08hands them a crack

00:45:09to grow in.

00:45:11I am.

00:45:12I'm terrified.

00:45:14But I am far more terrified

00:45:16of you dying

00:45:17at the hands

00:45:18of someone else.

00:45:21Ava,

00:45:22I don't expect

00:45:22your forgiveness.

00:45:23But until Marcus

00:45:24and Serena

00:45:25face trial,

00:45:26please do not

00:45:27leave this castle.

00:45:29Are you that

00:45:29afraid of me dying?

00:45:31I'm afraid of being

00:45:32too late

00:45:33to save you again.

00:45:34Alpha!

00:45:35The blood moon

00:45:36is peaking earlier

00:45:37than expected.

00:45:38Your curse

00:45:38is reacting again.

00:45:42Lock me

00:45:42in the isolation tower.

00:45:44Now.

00:45:45Are you seriously

00:45:46going to handle

00:45:46this alone again?

00:45:48You are still

00:45:49recovering from

00:45:49your wounds!

00:45:50So your plan

00:45:51is to just

00:45:51keep injecting

00:45:52yourself with

00:45:52wolfbide?

00:45:54This time,

00:45:55Daemon,

00:45:56I make my own

00:45:57choice.

00:46:00Put that away.

00:46:01But Lady Ava,

00:46:02you haven't

00:46:02fully recovered yet.

00:46:04I said,

00:46:05put it away.

00:46:08Stay back!

00:46:17You're going

00:46:18to get hurt.

00:46:20The only thing

00:46:21that truly hurts

00:46:22me

00:46:22is you

00:46:23constantly

00:46:24pushing me

00:46:25away.

00:46:36Ava.

00:46:37From this

00:46:38moment on,

00:46:39you don't get

00:46:39to decide

00:46:40what's best

00:46:40for me anymore.

00:46:42Understood?

00:46:44Understood.

00:46:45Luna confirmed.

00:46:46Wolfey reaction

00:46:47suppressed.

00:46:48Shit.

00:46:50She isn't

00:46:51just any

00:46:51highborn

00:46:52werewolf.

00:46:52She can

00:46:53neutralize

00:46:53the wolf

00:46:54base

00:46:54toxin

00:46:54entirely.

00:46:57I will

00:46:57learn to

00:46:58be worthy

00:46:58of you,

00:46:59Ava.

00:47:00Then something

00:47:01unexpected

00:47:02happened.

00:47:04The moon

00:47:04stars'

00:47:05pure divine

00:47:06energy

00:47:07pressed down

00:47:08on everything

00:47:09around it,

00:47:10and Vivian's

00:47:11dark,

00:47:11cold pendant

00:47:12finally gave

00:47:13out under the

00:47:14pressure.

00:47:14A crack

00:47:15split across

00:47:16its surface.

00:47:17A thick,

00:47:18foul stream

00:47:19of void

00:47:19energy slithered

00:47:20out through

00:47:21the crack

00:47:21like a snake

00:47:22and wrapped

00:47:23itself around

00:47:23the storm

00:47:24griffle that

00:47:24was still

00:47:24kneeling on

00:47:25the ground.

00:47:26The griffle

00:47:26screamed in

00:47:27agony.

00:47:27Its eyes

00:47:28went red

00:47:29instantly,

00:47:29and its body

00:47:30began to swell.

00:47:31Black barbed

00:47:32tentacles started

00:47:33growing out

00:47:33from its sides.

00:47:34It had

00:47:35completely lost

00:47:35control.

00:47:36No!

00:47:37My griffle

00:47:38What is

00:47:40happening?

00:47:42Lila,

00:47:43this is

00:47:43you!

00:47:44You did

00:47:45something to

00:47:46my mouth!

00:47:48The griffle

00:47:49wings sent

00:47:50Vivian flying

00:47:51before she

00:47:52finished screaming,

00:47:53and she was

00:47:54still accusing

00:47:54me from the

00:47:55air.

00:47:56But this

00:47:57time,

00:47:57nobody around

00:47:58her was

00:47:59blind.

00:48:00The void

00:48:01energy and

00:48:01its sickening

00:48:02smell made

00:48:04it completely

00:48:05obvious,

00:48:06that Vivian

00:48:07had been

00:48:07using a

00:48:08forbidden

00:48:08void

00:48:09artifact.

00:48:09The

00:48:10corrupted

00:48:10griffle

00:48:11opened its

00:48:11jaws wide,

00:48:13charged up

00:48:13a blast

00:48:14of violent

00:48:14void

00:48:15lightning,

00:48:15and went

00:48:16straight for

00:48:16the nearest

00:48:17group of

00:48:17students.

00:48:19Help us!

00:48:20That is

00:48:21high-level

00:48:21void

00:48:22corruption!

00:48:22Run!

00:48:23The foot

00:48:24of the

00:48:24sacred

00:48:24mountain

00:48:25erupted

00:48:25into chaos.

00:48:28The nobles

00:48:29and officials

00:48:29who had been

00:48:30sitting so

00:48:31high and

00:48:31mighty a

00:48:32moment ago

00:48:33reacted to

00:48:34real high-level

00:48:35void corruption

00:48:36exactly the

00:48:36same way

00:48:37they had

00:48:37at the

00:48:38graduation

00:48:38ceremony.

00:48:40They dropped

00:48:41their weapons

00:48:42and ran.

00:48:43Duke

00:48:44Vera grabbed

00:48:45Vivian,

00:48:45who had just

00:48:46hit the

00:48:46ground,

00:48:47and once again

00:48:47displayed his

00:48:48extraordinary

00:48:49talent for

00:48:50escaping danger

00:48:50by scrambling

00:48:51toward the

00:48:52exit on all

00:48:52feats.

00:48:53I let out

00:48:54a cold laugh

00:48:55and gave the

00:48:56moonstay a

00:48:56light pat on

00:48:57the neck.

00:48:58Hold on,

00:48:59Arthur.

00:48:59I will handle

00:49:00the clean-up.

00:49:03I swung up

00:49:04onto the

00:49:04stag's back.

00:49:09It reared

00:49:09its head

00:49:10and let out

00:49:10a sharp

00:49:11cry,

00:49:12then took

00:49:12off across

00:49:13a path

00:49:13of starlight

00:49:17and planted

00:49:18itself directly

00:49:19in the

00:49:19corrupted

00:49:20griffon's

00:49:20path like

00:49:21a streak

00:49:21of silver

00:49:22lightning.

00:49:23I raised

00:49:23my right

00:49:24hand and

00:49:24moonbow came

00:49:25into existence.

00:49:26This time

00:49:26I let my

00:49:27crown-grade

00:49:27divine core

00:49:28run at full

00:49:28capacity.

00:49:29Five arrows

00:49:30formed on

00:49:30the string,

00:49:31each one

00:49:31made a

00:49:31pure

00:49:32concentrated

00:49:32starfire.

00:49:33Break.

00:49:34I released.

00:49:35Five trails

00:49:35of silver

00:49:36light tore

00:49:36through the

00:49:37void mist

00:49:37like shooting

00:49:38stuff.

00:49:38The arrows

00:49:38hit the

00:49:39void core

00:49:39points on

00:49:40the corrupted

00:49:40griffon's

00:49:41body with

00:49:41perfect

00:49:41precision.

00:49:43Starfire

00:49:43detonated

00:49:44inside it,

00:49:44and the

00:49:45collision

00:49:45between

00:49:45divine power

00:49:46and void

00:49:47energy

00:49:47produced a

00:49:48massive

00:49:48burst of

00:49:49light.

00:49:49The

00:49:50void

00:49:50corruption

00:49:50that

00:49:51would

00:49:51have

00:49:51been

00:49:51hopeless

00:49:51for

00:49:52an

00:49:52ordinary

00:49:52awakener

00:49:52to

00:49:53fight.

00:49:55Dissolved

00:49:55under

00:49:56crown-grade

00:49:57divine power

00:49:58like snow

00:49:58under a

00:49:59blazing

00:49:59sun.

00:50:02One

00:50:03strike.

00:50:04The

00:50:04corrupted

00:50:05rifle

00:50:05dissolved

00:50:06into

00:50:06black

00:50:06ash.

00:50:08The

00:50:09void

00:50:09poison

00:50:09mist

00:50:09spreading

00:50:10across

00:50:10the

00:50:11field

00:50:11was

00:50:12wiped

00:50:12clean

00:50:12by the

00:50:13sea

00:50:13of

00:50:13star

00:50:13blossoms

00:50:14the

00:50:14moon

00:50:14stag

00:50:15left

00:50:15in

00:50:15its

00:50:15wake.

00:50:16The

00:50:16battlefield

00:50:17went

00:50:17quiet

00:50:17again.

00:50:18The

00:50:19students

00:50:19and

00:50:19actresses

00:50:20who

00:50:20had

00:50:20just

00:50:20narrowly

00:50:21escaped

00:50:21death

00:50:21stared

00:50:22up

00:50:22at

00:50:22me

00:50:22sitting

00:50:22on

00:50:22the

00:50:22moon

00:50:23stahn

00:50:23with

00:50:23the

00:50:23silver

00:50:24still

00:50:24in

00:50:24hand

00:50:24divine

00:50:25light

00:50:25radiating

00:50:26from

00:50:26every

00:50:26part

00:50:29no

00:50:29slander.

00:50:30The

00:50:30common

00:50:31born

00:50:31students

00:50:32dropped

00:50:32to

00:50:32their

00:50:32knees

00:50:33their

00:50:33eyes

00:50:33filled

00:50:33with

00:50:34the

00:50:34kind

00:50:34of

00:50:34awe

00:50:34that

00:50:35comes

00:50:35from

00:50:35surviving

00:50:36something

00:50:36that

00:50:36should

00:50:36have

00:50:37killed

00:50:37you.

00:50:37Chief

00:50:38Lila,

00:50:38thank you

00:50:39for saving

00:50:40our

00:50:40lives.

00:50:41This is

00:50:41what a

00:50:42real

00:50:42rift

00:50:42huntress

00:50:43miss

00:50:43looks

00:50:43like.

00:50:44How

00:50:44blind

00:50:45were

00:50:45we

00:50:45to

00:50:45believe

00:50:45a

00:50:46word

00:50:46that

00:50:46fake

00:50:46princess

00:50:47said?

00:50:47It

00:50:48was

00:50:48not

00:50:48just

00:50:48the

00:50:48students.

00:50:50Several

00:50:50senior

00:50:50red

00:50:51robe

00:50:51officials

00:50:51from

00:50:51the

00:50:52trial

00:50:52council

00:50:59of

00:50:59power

00:50:59at

00:51:00this

00:51:00level.

00:51:00They

00:51:01all

00:51:01understood.

00:51:02This

00:51:0218

00:51:03year

00:51:03old

00:51:03girl

00:51:03was

00:51:03the

00:51:03divine

00:51:04realm's

00:51:04last

00:51:04line

00:51:05of

00:51:05defense.

00:51:06The

00:51:06broadcast

00:51:06crystal

00:51:07transmitted

00:51:07everything

00:51:08live to

00:51:08every

00:51:08corner

00:51:09of

00:51:09etherean.

00:51:10Public

00:51:10opinion

00:51:11settled

00:51:11in

00:51:11that

00:51:11moment.

00:51:12Lyra

00:51:13Vale

00:51:13was

00:51:13the

00:51:13divine

00:51:14realm's

00:51:14true

00:51:14guardian.

00:51:15Veyra

00:51:16family

00:51:16was

00:51:16a

00:51:16cancer

00:51:17that

00:51:17had

00:51:17been

00:51:17growing

00:51:17inside

00:51:18the

00:51:18empire.

00:51:20The

00:51:20Skybon

00:51:21trial

00:51:21ended

00:51:21with

00:51:22my

00:51:22complete

00:51:22victory.

00:51:23The

00:51:23Veyra

00:51:23family

00:51:23and

00:51:23Vivian

00:51:24were

00:51:24placed

00:51:24under

00:51:24full

00:51:25house

00:51:25arrest

00:51:25at

00:51:25the

00:51:25relay

00:51:26station

00:51:26at

00:51:26the

00:51:26foot

00:51:26of

00:51:26the

00:51:27sacred

00:51:27mountain

00:51:27awaiting

00:51:28the

00:51:28royal

00:51:28court's

00:51:29final

00:51:29judgment.

00:51:29Arthur

00:51:30took me

00:51:30back

00:51:30to

00:51:31Celestra

00:51:31that

00:51:31same

00:51:32night.

00:51:32Not

00:51:33for

00:51:33any

00:51:33grand

00:51:33ceremony.

00:51:34Not

00:51:34to

00:51:34begin

00:51:34training

00:51:35immediately.

00:51:36He

00:51:36simply

00:51:37said

00:51:37I

00:51:37looked

00:51:37like

00:51:37I

00:51:37had

00:51:38not

00:51:38eaten

00:51:38all

00:51:38day.

00:51:39I

00:51:39gave

00:51:39him

00:51:39a

00:51:40look.

00:51:45Sounds

00:51:46more

00:51:46official

00:51:46than

00:51:53until

00:51:53after

00:51:53breakfast.

00:51:54He

00:51:54said

00:51:54it

00:51:54as if

00:51:55nothing

00:51:55had

00:51:55happened

00:51:56today.

00:51:56As

00:51:57if

00:51:57the

00:51:57entire

00:51:57realm

00:51:58had

00:51:58not

00:51:58screamed

00:51:59at

00:51:59me

00:51:59and

00:51:59my

00:52:00own

00:52:00birth

00:52:00parents

00:52:00had

00:52:01not

00:52:01abandoned

00:52:01me

00:52:01in

00:52:01public.

00:52:02But

00:52:03the

00:52:03way

00:52:03he

00:52:03tossed

00:52:04his

00:52:04coat

00:52:04over

00:52:04my

00:52:05shoulders

00:52:05was

00:52:05completely

00:52:06natural.

00:52:07Also

00:52:07the

00:52:07room

00:52:07on

00:52:07the

00:52:07third

00:52:08floor

00:52:08of

00:52:08the

00:52:08south

00:52:08tower

00:52:09is

00:52:09yours

00:52:09from

00:52:10now

00:52:10on.

00:52:10The

00:52:11key

00:52:11is

00:52:11at

00:52:11the

00:52:11bottom

00:52:11of

00:52:12the

00:52:12box.

00:52:15I

00:52:15just

00:52:16sat

00:52:16on

00:52:16the

00:52:16rallying

00:52:16and

00:52:16watched

00:52:17the

00:52:17star

00:52:17rail

00:52:17trains

00:52:18moving

00:52:18through

00:52:18the

00:52:18distance.

00:52:19He

00:52:19turned

00:52:19his

00:52:20head

00:52:20slightly

00:52:20with

00:52:21a

00:52:21lazy

00:52:21kind

00:52:21of

00:52:21warmth

00:52:22in

00:52:22his

00:52:22eyes.

00:52:23Celestara

00:52:23does

00:52:23not

00:52:24care

00:52:24whether

00:52:24you

00:52:24are

00:52:24the

00:52:24daughter

00:52:25house

00:52:25Vera

00:52:25throw

00:52:25away.

00:52:26Only

00:52:27one

00:52:27thing

00:52:27matters

00:52:27here.

00:52:28Whether

00:52:28you

00:52:28are

00:52:29strong

00:52:29enough.

00:52:32I

00:52:32looked

00:52:32down

00:52:33at

00:52:33the

00:52:33key

00:52:33in

00:52:33my

00:52:33hand.

00:52:35The

00:52:35star

00:52:36wind

00:52:36was

00:52:36cold.

00:52:38But

00:52:38for

00:52:38the

00:52:38first

00:52:39time

00:52:39in

00:52:39a

00:52:39long

00:52:39time

00:52:40I

00:52:41did

00:52:41not

00:52:41feel

00:52:41like

00:52:41I

00:52:42had

00:52:42nowhere

00:52:42to

00:52:42go.

00:52:48Look

00:52:49closely

00:52:49all

00:52:50of

00:52:50you.

00:52:50I

00:52:51am

00:52:51not

00:52:51under

00:52:51her

00:52:52control.

00:52:53She

00:52:53is

00:52:53the

00:52:53one

00:52:54who

00:52:54tethers

00:52:54my

00:52:54sanity.

00:52:55She

00:52:56is

00:52:56my

00:52:56light.

00:52:57A

00:52:57girl

00:52:57of

00:52:58unknown

00:52:58origin.

00:52:59A

00:53:00stray

00:53:00raised

00:53:01by

00:53:01humans.

00:53:02How

00:53:03can

00:53:03a

00:53:03filthy

00:53:04commoner

00:53:04like

00:53:05her

00:53:06ever

00:53:06be

00:53:07the

00:53:07Luna

00:53:07of

00:53:08the

00:53:08Blackthorn

00:53:09Pack.

00:53:13Watch

00:53:13your

00:53:13tongue

00:53:14old

00:53:14man.

00:53:15My

00:53:16name

00:53:16is

00:53:16Ava

00:53:16Hart.

00:53:17I

00:53:18was

00:53:18raised

00:53:18as

00:53:18an

00:53:19orphan

00:53:19by

00:53:19the

00:53:19Hart

00:53:19Pack

00:53:20and

00:53:20I

00:53:20am

00:53:20the

00:53:21last

00:53:21surviving

00:53:21bloodline

00:53:22of the

00:53:22Moon

00:53:22Marked

00:53:23lineage.

00:53:23I

00:53:24am

00:53:24nobody's

00:53:25accessory.

00:53:25I

00:53:26am

00:53:26not

00:53:26a

00:53:26mere

00:53:26antidote

00:53:27for

00:53:27the

00:53:27Alpha

00:53:27and

00:53:28I

00:53:29am

00:53:29certainly

00:53:29not

00:53:29a

00:53:30tool

00:53:30for

00:53:30your

00:53:30pathetic

00:53:31power

00:53:31struggles

00:53:32but

00:53:33I

00:53:33will

00:53:33stand

00:53:33right

00:53:34here

00:53:36and

00:53:37watch

00:53:37the

00:53:37man

00:53:37who

00:53:38manufactured

00:53:39a

00:53:39monster

00:53:39get dragged

00:53:40down to

00:53:41hell

00:53:41by his

00:53:41own

00:53:42creation.

00:53:46Marcus

00:53:46Blackthorn,

00:53:47for treason

00:53:48against the

00:53:49Alpha

00:53:49King,

00:53:49illicit use

00:53:50of forbidden

00:53:51toxins

00:53:52and

00:53:53the

00:53:53attempted

00:53:53execution

00:53:54of the

00:53:54moon

00:53:54marked

00:53:55air

00:53:55is

00:53:55absolute.

00:53:58I

00:53:58was

00:53:59manipulated!

00:54:00He lied

00:54:00to me!

00:54:01Damon,

00:54:02please!

00:54:02Everything I did

00:54:03was because I

00:54:03love you!

00:54:06Did Marcus

00:54:06force you to

00:54:07pour that

00:54:08dear blood

00:54:08in the

00:54:08hall?

00:54:11Did he

00:54:12force me

00:54:12into the

00:54:12bone bins?

00:54:14Did he

00:54:14lock me

00:54:15in the

00:54:15wolf fair

00:54:16vault

00:54:16or order

00:54:17those

00:54:17thugs

00:54:17to cut

00:54:17my

00:54:18face?

00:54:21Did he

00:54:22Serena?

00:54:23Damon,

00:54:23I am a

00:54:24noble wolf

00:54:25daughter!

00:54:25She's nothing

00:54:26but a

00:54:26human-bred

00:54:27parasite!

00:54:28Strip

00:54:28Serena

00:54:28veil of

00:54:29her title

00:54:29and status

00:54:30within the

00:54:31castle.

00:54:32Hand her

00:54:32over to

00:54:33the council.

00:54:34Your

00:54:34majesty,

00:54:35does this

00:54:35mean you

00:54:36are officially

00:54:36recognizing

00:54:37Ava Hart

00:54:38as the

00:54:38supreme

00:54:38lunar

00:54:39of the

00:54:39Blackthorn

00:54:39pack?

00:54:40Only she

00:54:40has the

00:54:41right to

00:54:41answer

00:54:41that

00:54:41question.

00:54:43Tonight,

00:54:44I will only

00:54:45establish one

00:54:45rule.

00:54:46From this

00:54:46single

00:54:46moment

00:54:47onward,

00:54:47anyone who

00:54:48dares to

00:54:48call me a

00:54:49human slave

00:54:50again,

00:54:50I will

00:54:51personally rip

00:54:52out their

00:54:52wolf fangs.

00:54:57And what

00:54:57about me,

00:54:58Ava?

00:54:59How do you

00:55:00plan to

00:55:00punish your

00:55:01alpha?

00:55:07Look closely,

00:55:08all of you.

00:55:09I am not

00:55:10under her

00:55:11control.

00:55:12She is the

00:55:12one who

00:55:13tethers my

00:55:13sanity.

00:55:14She is my

00:55:15light.

00:55:16A girl

00:55:16of unknown

00:55:17origin,

00:55:18a stray

00:55:19raised by

00:55:20humans.

00:55:21How can

00:55:22a filthy

00:55:23commoner

00:55:23like her

00:55:25ever be

00:55:26the luna

00:55:26of the

00:55:27Blackthorn

00:55:28pack?

00:55:32Watch your

00:55:32tongue,

00:55:33old man.

00:55:35My name

00:55:35is Ava

00:55:35Hart.

00:55:36I was

00:55:37raised as

00:55:37an orphan

00:55:38by the

00:55:38Hart

00:55:38pack,

00:55:39and I

00:55:39am the

00:55:40last

00:55:40surviving

00:55:40bloodline

00:55:41of the

00:55:41moon-marked

00:55:42lineage.

00:55:42I am

00:55:43nobody's

00:55:44accessory,

00:55:44I am

00:55:45not a

00:55:45mere

00:55:45antidote

00:55:46for the

00:55:46alpha,

00:55:47and I

00:55:48am certainly

00:55:48not a

00:55:49tool for

00:55:49your

00:55:49pathetic

00:55:50power

00:55:50struggles,

00:55:51but I

00:55:52will stand

00:55:52right here

00:55:55and watch

00:55:56the man who

00:55:57manufactured a

00:55:58monster get

00:55:59dragged down to

00:56:00hell by his

00:56:00own creation.

00:56:05Marcus

00:56:05Blackthorn,

00:56:06for treason

00:56:07against the

00:56:08alpha king,

00:56:09illicit use of

00:56:10forbidden toxins.

00:56:11And the

00:56:12attempted

00:56:12execution of

00:56:13the moon-marked

00:56:14heir is

00:56:14absolute.

00:56:17I was

00:56:18manipulated!

00:56:19He lied to

00:56:19me!

00:56:20Damon,

00:56:21please,

00:56:21everything I

00:56:22did was

00:56:22because I

00:56:23love you!

00:56:25Did Marcus

00:56:25force you to

00:56:26pour that

00:56:27dear blood

00:56:27in the

00:56:27hall?

00:56:30Did he

00:56:31force me

00:56:31into the

00:56:31bone bins?

00:56:33Did he

00:56:33lock me in

00:56:34the wolf-fair

00:56:35vault,

00:56:35or order

00:56:36those thugs

00:56:36to cut

00:56:36my face?

00:56:40Did he,

00:56:41Serena?

00:56:42Damon,

00:56:42I am a

00:56:43noble wolf

00:56:44daughter!

00:56:44She's nothing

00:56:45but a

00:56:45human-bred

00:56:46parasite!

00:56:47Strip

00:56:47Serena

00:56:47Vale of

00:56:48her title

00:56:48and status

00:56:49within the

00:56:50castle.

00:56:51Hand

00:56:51her over

00:56:51to the

00:56:52council.

00:56:53Your

00:56:53majesty,

00:56:54does this

00:56:54mean you

00:56:55are officially

00:56:55recognizing

00:56:56Ava Hart

00:56:57as the

00:56:57supreme

00:56:57lunar of

00:56:58the

00:56:58Blackthorn

00:56:58pack?

00:56:59Only

00:56:59she has

00:56:59the right

00:57:00to answer

00:57:00that

00:57:00question.

00:57:02Tonight,

00:57:03I will

00:57:03only establish

00:57:04one rule

00:57:05from this

00:57:05single moment

00:57:06onward.

00:57:06Anyone

00:57:07who

00:57:07dares

00:57:07to

00:57:07call

00:57:08me

00:57:08a

00:57:08human

00:57:08slave

00:57:09again,

00:57:09I will

00:57:10personally

00:57:10rip out

00:57:11their

00:57:11wolf

00:57:11fangs.

00:57:16And what

00:57:16about me,

00:57:17Ava?

00:57:18How do

00:57:19you plan

00:57:19to punish

00:57:19your

00:57:20alpha?

00:57:23Right

00:57:23as Arthur

00:57:24was about

00:57:24to end

00:57:24it,

00:57:25the sound

00:57:25of desperate

00:57:26stumbling

00:57:26footsteps

00:57:27came from

00:57:27outside.

00:57:28Duke

00:57:29and Lady

00:57:29Vera

00:57:29shoved

00:57:30past

00:57:30the

00:57:31royal

00:57:31guards

00:57:31blocking

00:57:32the

00:57:32entrance

00:57:32and came

00:57:33crashing

00:57:33in.

00:57:37Lyla,

00:57:38my own

00:57:39flesh

00:57:40and blood.

00:57:44Please,

00:57:45I am

00:57:46begging you,

00:57:47save the

00:57:47Vera family.

00:57:49The royal

00:57:50court is

00:57:50taking all

00:57:51our lands

00:57:51and they

00:57:52are going

00:57:53to strip

00:57:53your father's

00:57:54title and

00:57:55reduce him

00:57:56to a

00:57:56commoner.

00:57:57you are

00:57:59the high

00:57:59warden's

00:58:00disciple now.

00:58:01The whole

00:58:01realm listens

00:58:02to you.

00:58:03If you

00:58:03say one

00:58:04word to

00:58:05the council,

00:58:05we can

00:58:06keep our

00:58:06rank.

00:58:07We are

00:58:07your

00:58:07birth

00:58:07parents!

00:58:08She

00:58:08reached

00:58:08toward my

00:58:09legs

00:58:09trying to

00:58:10grab on,

00:58:10her eyes

00:58:11full of

00:58:11calculation

00:58:12and desperation

00:58:13barely dressed

00:58:13up to look

00:58:14like a

00:58:14mother's

00:58:14love.

00:58:15I

00:58:15looked down

00:58:16at her.

00:58:17Birth

00:58:17parents?

00:58:18When Vivian

00:58:18accused me

00:58:19of cheating

00:58:19on that

00:58:20stage,

00:58:20you told

00:58:20me to

00:58:21confess.

00:58:21When the

00:58:22monsters

00:58:22came,

00:58:23you grabbed

00:58:24her and

00:58:24ran,

00:58:25leaving me

00:58:26in the

00:58:27rubble.

00:58:28Now that

00:58:29your family

00:58:29is falling,

00:58:30you suddenly

00:58:31remember you

00:58:33have a

00:58:34daughter?

00:58:38Duke

00:58:39Vera saw

00:58:39I was not

00:58:40moving and

00:58:41dropped to

00:58:41his knees as

00:58:42well, but

00:58:43the greed in

00:58:44his eyes had

00:58:44not gone

00:58:45anywhere.

00:58:47Lyra!

00:58:48Stop being

00:58:48so stubborn!

00:58:50Even if you

00:58:50do not care

00:58:51about us,

00:58:52think about

00:58:52the Vera

00:58:53blood you

00:58:53carry.

00:58:54If House

00:58:54Vera falls,

00:58:55you will

00:58:56be nothing

00:58:56but a

00:58:57commoner

00:58:58with no

00:58:58family backing,

00:58:59even inside

00:59:00Celestara!

00:59:01Help us

00:59:02through this.

00:59:03And I will

00:59:03immediately announce

00:59:04that Vivian

00:59:04is stripped

00:59:05of her

00:59:05position.

00:59:06You will

00:59:06be the

00:59:07sole heir

00:59:07to

00:59:07Vals

00:59:08Vera.

00:59:08Every

00:59:08resource

00:59:09the

00:59:09family

00:59:09has

00:59:09will

00:59:10be

00:59:10yours!

00:59:10Listen

00:59:10to

00:59:11that.

00:59:11Even

00:59:12now,

00:59:12he genuinely

00:59:12thought

00:59:13the

00:59:13Vera

00:59:13inheritance

00:59:14was some

00:59:14enormous

00:59:15gift he

00:59:15was offering

00:59:15me.

00:59:16He seemed

00:59:17to have

00:59:17forgotten

00:59:17that standing

00:59:18behind

00:59:18me

00:59:18was

00:59:19Arthur,

00:59:19who

00:59:20personally

00:59:20commanded

00:59:21Celestara

00:59:22Academy

00:59:22and half

00:59:23the Empire's

00:59:23military

00:59:24forces.

00:59:25Now that

00:59:26is

00:59:26something

00:59:26else.

00:59:33Arthur

00:59:33walked over

00:59:34to Duke

00:59:34Valor,

00:59:35like he

00:59:35had just

00:59:36heard the

00:59:36funniest

00:59:36thing

00:59:37in years,

00:59:38lifted his

00:59:38foot and

00:59:39pressed it

00:59:40down directly

00:59:40onto the

00:59:41Duke's

00:59:41face.

00:59:42That

00:59:42distinguished

00:59:43noble face

00:59:44was pushed

00:59:45flat into

00:59:45the floor.

00:59:46Backing?

00:59:47My disciple

00:59:48needs your

00:59:49broken little

00:59:49noble title

00:59:50for backing?

00:59:51That title

00:59:52is not

00:59:52even worth

00:59:52wiping

00:59:53your boots

00:59:53on.

00:59:54I am

00:59:55her backing.

00:59:56I alone

00:59:57am the

00:59:58biggest backing

00:59:58in this

00:59:59entire realm!

01:00:03Arthur

01:00:04kept his

01:00:04foot on

01:00:05Duke

01:00:05Vera's

01:00:05face and

01:00:06turned to

01:00:07look at

01:00:07Vinian lying

01:00:08in the

01:00:08blood on

01:00:09the floor.

01:00:10His eyes

01:00:11were as

01:00:11cold as

01:00:13someone looking

01:00:13at a

01:00:14corpse.

01:00:16Someone

01:00:16come and

01:00:17collect this

01:00:17condemned

01:00:18prisoner.

01:00:21She used

01:00:22a forbidden

01:00:23void

01:00:23artifact and

01:00:24attempted to

01:00:25assassinate the

01:00:26top recruit

01:00:27of this

01:00:28empire.

01:00:29Strip her.

01:00:32Divine

01:00:33core,

01:00:34drain every

01:00:35last trace

01:00:36of power

01:00:37she has

01:00:38and exile

01:00:40her to

01:00:41the dark

01:00:41rift,

01:00:43the deepest

01:00:43point on

01:00:44record.

01:00:45Let her

01:00:46spend whatever

01:00:46time she

01:00:47has left

01:00:48with the

01:00:48void

01:00:48monsters she

01:00:49loves so

01:00:50much.

01:00:53several

01:00:53armoured

01:00:54judgment

01:00:54knights

01:00:55walked in

01:00:56without a

01:00:56word and

01:00:57dragged

01:00:58Vivian

01:00:58toward the

01:00:59exit by

01:00:59her arms,

01:01:00ignoring

01:01:01every

01:01:01scream and

01:01:02plea she

01:01:02made.

01:01:03Lyra,

01:01:04you will

01:01:05pay for

01:01:06this!

01:01:06I will

01:01:07haunt you

01:01:07even from

01:01:08the grave!

01:01:09Ah!

01:01:11Ah!

01:01:12Ah!

01:01:14Ah!

01:01:15Ah!

01:01:16Ah!

01:01:17Ah!

01:01:19Ah!

01:01:20Ah!

01:01:22Ah!

01:01:27Ah!

01:01:28Ah!

01:01:29Ah!

01:01:29grift. Did not last three days before the voidborn found her. She spent 18 years stealing a life

01:01:37that belonged to someone else. In the end, she died in the darkness she had summoned with her

01:01:43own hands. Lady Vera watched the girl she had raised collapse and screamed herself unconscious.

01:01:49Duke Vera lay pinned under Arthur's foot, shaking too hard to say a single word.

01:02:04I crouched down and looked at Duke Vera's ashen face. Your grace. All those years ago your family

01:02:11chased a royal court reward and took me to the border when I was still an infant. That was how

01:02:17your enemies got their hands on me. 18 years later you brought me back only because you needed my

01:02:25blood to extend Vivian's life. Did you really think I did not know why you came to find me?

01:02:34Duke Vera's pupils contracted and genuine terror finally moved into his eyes.

01:02:41He had thought the secret was buried completely. He had no idea I had already uncovered everything.

01:02:48The guilt they performed, the story of finding the real daughter, every bit of it had been a

01:02:53cold-blooded calculation from the start. Her bloodline is sufficiently pure. Drain her sacred

01:03:00blood once a month to sustain Vivian's life. The Vera family will have a true genius.

01:03:06If I had not secretly awakened a crown-grade divine core on my own, I would have died in the

01:03:12Valeys' underground caper. The 18 years you owe me, and the blood debt on top of it. We settle

01:03:22everything today. I stood up and did not look at him again. The next day, the royal court issued a

01:03:28supplemental ruling. House Vera was stripped of all noble titles and reduced to the lowest rank of

01:03:33commoner with a permanent ban on entering the central floating city of the divine realm. The entire

01:03:38family was sent to work in the hardest crystal mining ration for the rest of their lives.

01:03:44House Vera, which had thrown its weight around at the border for years,

01:03:50disappeared from the map of Aetherian completely.

01:04:01With the Vaila family finished, it was Victor's turn. He had not directly participated in framing me,

01:04:07but his willingness to jump on any powerful person's bandwagon and crush anyone without backing had

01:04:12been one of the reasons the original version of me had despaired. Victor Blake, you are charged with

01:04:17misappropriation of royal court assets and gross deliction of duty on a large scale. All positions are

01:04:24hereby revoked and your status as a sacred institution official is permanently stripped.

01:04:37No! Where is... Where are they? Please! Someone! Anyone!

01:04:50Victor was sentenced to a hundred years of hard labor in the abyssal prison tower, never again able to

01:04:55touch the power and wealth he loved most. On the day Victor was taken away, the entire student body of

01:05:01the academy spontaneously pilsted him with rotten eggs and discarded room scraps. He sobbed and tried to reach

01:05:07the nobles at the royal court who used to protect him, only to find that every single one of them

01:05:12had

01:05:12already cut him off the moment they decided he was not worth risking Arthur's displeasure. He was

01:05:16sentenced to a hundred years of hard labor in the deep prison tower, permanently barred from touching

01:05:22the power and wealth he had prom loved so much. In complete contrast to Victor's miserable end, the small

01:05:29rundown border academy where I had once studied was about to have the greatest moment in its entire history.

01:05:34Under Arthur's direction, the royal court took the majority of the assets and spirit crystal landholds

01:05:38confiscated from the Veya family and transferred them in full to the border academy as a dedicated

01:05:42education fund. In recognition of the border academy's role in producing chief recruit Lyra, the top ranked

01:05:48student in the entire realm, the royal court hereby designates it a founding class priority academy, with

01:05:54High Warden Arthur Hal as honorary headmaster. We... we did it. Top instructors from the floating city were

01:06:00dispatched to the border in large numbers. The academy's training facilities and spirit spring

01:06:04resources were completely aholved. The institution that used to have less than a 10% placement rate

01:06:08and had not produced a single royal court official in years was now a place every common-born student

01:06:12across the realm was desperate to get into. Lyra has always been a good child. Her glory belongs to

01:06:17every commoner on this border. We never chased power status here. We only raised real guardians. My old

01:06:25teacher, the quietly shabby old mage who used to pay my rune material fees out of his own thin salary,

01:06:30was appointed the new headmaster ahead of everyone else. When he sat down for a broadcast crystal

01:06:36interview, his eyes were shining. By the star rail station in the outer court, countless people

01:06:42watched that broadcast and could not hold back their tears. Between Arthur's performances, my own trial

01:06:50results, and the public revelation of the truth about the void rifts, the entire realm of ethereum was

01:06:58swept up in a massive wave of awakening fever. Common people stopped seeing entry into the noble temples

01:07:04as the only path forward. Everyone was rushing to test their divine core compatibility. I heard Chief

01:07:10Lyra awaken at the border too! Commoners can have crown grade cores! I am going to enter the trial!

01:07:17The medical temples even opened dedicated divine core compatibility clinics,

01:07:22and young people were lining up every day to find out what they were capable of. The kind of

01:07:29extraordinary power that the noble class had monopolized for generations was thrown open to

01:07:34everyone the moment that one arrow flew. Inside Celestara, the Riftguard order began large-scale

01:07:41recruitment. More and more gifted common-born students rose through the ranks and became fresh

01:07:46protectors of the divine realm. For the first time, the empire actually had the foundation to fight

01:07:52back against total void annihilation. As for everything the outside world was saying, none of it could stir so

01:08:00much as a ripple in me anymore. Because at that moment, I was facing the biggest crisis I had encountered

01:08:07since arriving at Celestara. The old drunk headmaster was chasing me across the islands looking ready to kill me.

01:08:13At the top of the sacred hall tower, I sat on the moon stag with both arms wrapped tightly around

01:08:18two bottles of starlight wine I had borrowed from the old drunk's private keller. This was not ordinary

01:08:23wine. Supposedly, it was brewed from fallen star spring water and silver moon berries, and it could

01:08:27both soothe the divine core and keep a high-level sky mount running at full excitement for three straight

01:08:30days. Arthur stood at the edge of the tower roof with his hands pressed together looking at me like

01:08:33he was begging for his life. Lyra, my dear Lyra, please give me the wine. The old drunk is coming

01:08:40this

01:08:40way with three judgment officials. Arthur, who stood there this afternoon, pounding his chest and swearing

01:08:46he would take full responsibility if anything went wrong. Lyra, my dear Lyra, please give me the wine.

01:08:52Arthur, who stood there this afternoon. The old drunk is coming this way with three judgment fortals, pounding

01:08:56his chest and swearing he would take full responsibility and burning every last page of my limited edition

01:08:59priestess illustration collection from under my bed. Pounding his chest and swearing he would take full

01:09:03responsibility. I sat on the moon stag with both arms wrapped tightly around two bottles of starlight wine I had

01:09:07borrowed

01:09:08from the old drunk's private keller. No chance. One bottle goes to the moon stag as a snack. I pat

01:09:12the

01:09:12moon stag on the neck lets out a happy mound and launched off the tower roof across a path of

01:09:15starlight.

01:09:16That was to keep Morala up! How was I supposed to know that old monster had tracking rooms hidden

01:09:19inside the core? Come on, give me one bottle and we split up. The other one is for stabilizing my

01:09:23divine core next month. Your illustration collection is your problem. The steek let out a happy sound and

01:09:27launched off the tower roof across a path of starlight. Liar! You heartless little gremlin! I looked back at him

01:09:33over my shoulder and laughed. This was what life at Celestora looked like. No noble scheming, no fake

01:09:39family bloodlines, just noise and chaos and a warmth I had not felt in a very long time.

01:09:45Six months passed, passed. With Arthur and the Riftguard order pouring everything into my training,

01:09:52I had finally pushed my strength to its limit. The crown grave divine core was ready for its final stage.

01:10:00The crown glade awakened breakthrough trial. This was the highest level test that only the greatest

01:10:06guardians in history had ever undertaken. It required going alone into the most dangerous

01:10:12outer domain storm barrier and sealing a major rift while surrounded and attacked by tens of thousands

01:10:17of void born. On the day of the trial every broadcast crystal in the realm lit up at once.

01:10:22Tens of millions of people held their breath watching that stretch of dark void fog covered ocean.

01:10:27The nobles watched. The common people watched. Duke Veyra was in the mining district swinging up

01:10:31through his clothes staring up at the magical prodigestion in the sky. When he saw me walk alone

01:10:35toward that storm, all that remained in his eyes was boundless regret and despair. He understood now.

01:10:50The commoner gets to watch the chief slack off again and there is no dinner tonight.

01:10:57A heavy whip came down on his back and shattered every last piece of the fantasy he'd been holding onto.

01:11:05A deep roar thundered across the outer domain ocean. A massive void rift stretching thousands

01:11:11of meters was spewing black fag in every direction. Tens of thousands of void born formed a black tidal

01:11:18wave and came crushing toward me. The core of my divine core began to burn. The silver moonlight and wild

01:11:25star fire inside me under will wonder Gwent a fundamental transformation in that moment. Arthur?

01:11:32Watch! I breathed those words out into the void, high above, riding the storm go-life in formation.

01:11:39Arthur's mouth curved into a cloud smile.

01:11:42Lyra, go all out! I have your back!

01:11:45He swissed up hard, and the blue lightning across the sky shaped itself into an enormous protective barrier

01:11:51that electrocuted every void born trying to interfere into ash. Under the absolute coordination of teacher

01:11:57and disciple, the entire outer domain ocean was split into two domains. One blue and one silver.

01:12:07The black tidal wave of monsters was right in front of me. I closed my eyes and felt the crown

01:12:14grey divine core inside me, already resonating with the star sea of the divine realm. I let go.

01:12:25What left the string was nothing like the thousand beams of light from before. The moment the arrow flew,

01:12:32the brilliant river of stars hanging low overhead seemed to be pulled along with it. The entire galaxy

01:12:40transformed into a sphere of pure moonlight ten thousand meters long. It carried an overwhelming

01:12:45divine force that unraveled the void and drove straight into the heart of the massive rift. The

01:12:50impact was total. The entire divine realm blazed white as day. Every void born in the arrow's way, did not

01:12:59even get a chance to scream. They evaporated under the absolute purifying powers, leaving nothing behind. Not even black ash.

01:13:09The enormous outer rift that had been bleeding darkness into the world for six years, let out one last

01:13:15defiant roar under the pressure of the sphere. And then it was sealed, dissolved, and swallowed by the blue sky.

01:13:24The whole continent went silent for one breath. Then the cheering began, loud enough to shake mountains.

01:13:30It was tens of millions of commoners and awakeners across the entire realm, crying out in worship to the

01:13:36one person who had stood between them and annihilation.

01:13:40It was over. The storm in the outer domain slowly faded. The blue sky came back to the world. I

01:13:47sat on

01:13:47the moon stag's back and put away Moonbow. The stack moved through the air at its own graceful pace,

01:13:53carrying me steadily towards Celestora's highest floating city. Arthur rode his storm griffle up alongside me.

01:14:00One arrow and the main rift is gone. Lyra, at the rate you are going, in a few more years,

01:14:06I may have to get up and give you this high warden seat. No thank you, Arthur. Your job is

01:14:12full of

01:14:12meetings and royal court reports. I would much rather ride the moon stag around stealing starspring wine.

01:14:17That is my disciple! The wind roared past our ears. The magnificent divine realm unfolded like an

01:14:23endless painting. I looked out at that shining star sea, and something inside me settled completely.

01:14:29The accusations from below, the Veira family's schemes, Vivian's obsessive envy, all of it had become

01:14:36meaningless just at the bottom of a puddle. I am Lyra Veil, chief recruit of Celestora, crown-grade

01:14:43Rift Hunters, the freest Awakener in this world. At 18 years old, the story was only just beginning.

01:14:49I leaned forward on the moon stag's back, pointed us toward the endless shining sky.

I Was Framed, Yet I Became Legend English Sub | Full Movie 2026 | CineLatino Drama

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