00:00starlight washes over the cavern, completely erasing Koros's vulgar red mist. With a soft
00:04clink, the gray stone crumbles. From the shards, a small, sleek creature rolls into our overlapping
00:09palms. It has fur as black as the midnight sky, silver runes shimmering along its spine,
00:14and eyes like twin galaxies. It's a newborn shadow wolf, a legendary divine beast thought
00:19extinct for a millennium. The entire cave drops into a deathly paralyzed silence. High ascents
00:24collapse to their knees, gasps catching in their throats. Even Korob's monstrous beheminate lizard
00:29feels the pure, primordial bloodline. The huge, spiked creature lets out a whimmering whine,
00:34its knees buckling as it cowers on the floor, its red light rapidly flickering. It is sheer
00:39bloodline suppression. The tiny shadow wolf blinks its stellar eyes, looking at our hands.
00:44Elena is frozen. For thirteen years, every egg she touched died. But right now, she can feel
00:51the terrifying, ancient pulse of life beneath her fingertips. Her chest heaves as she stares
00:56at the creature. But then, the wolf cub moves. It completely ignores Elena's massive dark mana.
01:01It turns its head, sniffles, and affectionately nuzzles my thumb, letting out a soft, happy purr.
01:07It lifts its tiny paw and taps my wrist, leaving a faint glowing silver crest on my skin. An ancient,
01:13unbreakable soul bond snaps into place in my mind. It didn't choose the strongest dark mace in the Empire.
01:19It chose me. It recognized me as his master. Elena completely stiffens. Her hand is still trapped
01:25under mine, but her wintry eyes snap up to lock onto my face. For three full seconds,
01:30her flawless mass cracks with absolute disbelief and a sharp hint of territorial jealousy.
01:35Her magic fueled it, but her husband took the prize.
01:40...
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01:41...
01:41...
01:42...
01:43A true...
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