00:00Everyone knows.
00:02How Aladdin's story ends.
00:05The lamp.
00:06The princess.
00:08The happy ending.
00:11But no one warned him.
00:13That it wasn't over.
00:15The sorcerer who had tried to destroy him.
00:18Had a brother.
00:20A man who never raised a sword.
00:23Never needed one.
00:25Because the sorcerer now hunting Aladdin.
00:28Did not merely want the magic lamp.
00:32He wanted Aladdin to remain alive.
00:35Long enough.
00:37To watch everything he loved.
00:40Disappear.
00:47Years passed.
00:49The poor boy who once wandered crowded streets.
00:52Was now a king.
00:59At sunrise, Aladdin walked among his people.
01:03Not surrounded by soldiers.
01:06Not hidden behind palace walls.
01:09He walked beside merchants.
01:12Laborers.
01:14And children.
01:16No child went hungry.
01:18No family was abandoned.
01:21Thieves feared his justice.
01:24The poor trusted his mercy.
01:27Whenever Aladdin heard a complaint, he stopped and listened.
01:31Because beneath the royal robes?
01:33He still remembered what it felt like to possess nothing.
01:37The people did not love him because he commanded a genie.
01:41They loved him because he had never forgotten who he once was.
01:46High above, Princess Badrul Badur watched him from the palace balcony.
01:51She smiled as Aladdin lifted a laughing child into his arms.
01:56Later that evening, they walked together through the palace gardens.
02:00Lanterns glowed beneath flowering trees.
02:04Music drifted through open windows.
02:07For the first time since the Cave of Wonders.
02:10Aladdin believed the danger was finally behind him.
02:14Deep beneath the palace, behind a door known only to Aladdin.
02:19The magic lamp remained hidden.
02:22Silent.
02:23Waiting in the darkness.
02:26As though it knew someone was searching for it.
02:28That night, the royal palace glowed like a star.
02:33Far away, another light burned.
02:36Not golden.
02:38Green.
02:40Far beyond Arabia.
02:42Deep inside Africa.
02:45Stood a black fortress.
02:48The people of nearby villages believed demons guarded its walls.
02:52At night, green flames rose from its highest tower.
02:56Even powerful kings ordered their armies to avoid the mountain.
03:01Because inside lived a sorcerer whose name was spoken only in whispers.
03:06Long before Aladdin was born.
03:09This man had studied magic forbidden even among magicians.
03:14He could read messages written in the stars.
03:17He could command spirits to reveal what mortal eyes could never see.
03:22He had opened doors into the unseen world.
03:26And some said that death itself had once entered his chamber.
03:30And left without him.
03:35And he was the elder brother of the sorcerer Aladdin had killed.
03:40One night, the sorcerer awoke suddenly.
03:43Every flame inside the fortress had gone out.
03:47The air turned cold.
03:49A silver chain hanging around his neck.
03:53Snapped.
03:55Upon it had rested a small black stone.
03:58A stone paired with another, carried by his brother.
04:02For decades, both stones had remained warm.
04:06Now his head become cold as ice.
04:09He entered the deepest chamber of the fortress.
04:13At its center stood a black mirror.
04:16Around it, he lit seven green flames.
04:19He scattered ash upon the floor.
04:22Then whispered words no human tongue was meant to speak.
04:26The flames bent toward the mirror.
04:30Its surface turned red.
04:33Then black.
04:35Smoke moved behind the glass.
04:37A face slowly appeared.
04:40His brother.
04:42Pale.
04:43Motionless.
04:45Dead.
04:47The mirror shattered.
04:49Silence filled the chamber.
04:52For the first time in decades.
04:55Fear crossed the sorcerer's face.
04:58His brother had possessed powerful magic.
05:01No ordinary man could have defeated him.
05:04For seven nights, the sorcerer searched for answers.
05:08He opened ancient scrolls sealed beneath stone.
05:12He questioned spirits bound inside bronze vessels.
05:15He read the movement of distant stars.
05:19But every spirit refused to speak.
05:22Until, on the seventh night, one finally answered.
05:26A shadow rose from the floor.
05:34Your brother was defeated by a mortal.
05:43Name him.
05:46Ardene.
05:47Ardene.
05:47Ardene.
05:48Who is he?
05:49A man who once possessed nothing.
05:52And now, he rules a golden kingdom.
05:55The sorcerer stepped closer.
05:59How did a mortal defeat my brother?
06:06He commands the servant of the lamp.
06:12So, the lamp still exists.
06:19The sorcerer walked slowly toward the broken mirror.
06:23My brother was always too impatient.
06:27He demanded obedience.
06:32He relied upon threats.
06:35I will not make the same mistake.
06:38I will learn how Adin thinks.
06:41Who he trusts.
06:45He opened a map of Aladdin's kingdom.
06:48Tiny flames appeared across the parchment.
06:51One marked the palace.
06:55Another, the marketplace.
06:57Another, the hidden roads beneath the city.
07:00No battle.
07:02No warning.
07:04And when man finally sees me.
07:09Everything he loves will already belong to me.
07:14Before sunrise, the sorcerer left his fortress.
07:17He crossed mountains, deserts, and forgotten roads.
07:21Days later, he reached the outskirts of Aladdin's kingdom.
07:26There, he heard the people speaking about a holy woman named Fatima.
07:30They said she healed the sick.
07:33Even the princess had heard of her goodness.
07:37The sorcerer stood among the crowd and watched as the old woman.
07:41Gave bread to a hungry child.
07:44A slow smile spread across his face.
07:47He did not need to force his way into Aladdin's palace.
07:51He only needed the face of someone the palace would welcome.
07:55That night, Fatima returned to her lonely house.
08:00She closed the door.
08:02A shadow moved behind her.
08:05She turned.
08:07The sorcerer stood inside.
08:10Before she could scream, the candles went out.
08:13By morning, Fatima had vanished.
08:17Inside the house, the sorcerer stood before a mirror.
08:21He lifted a vial filled with shimmering golden dust.
08:24The greatest magic.
08:27Is not power.
08:29It is deception.
08:31He released the dust.
08:34It rose around him.
08:36His broad shoulders narrowed.
08:39His beard vanished.
08:41His hands became thin and wrinkled.
08:43When the golden light faded.
08:47The sorcerer was gone.
08:49In his place stood the holy woman, Fatima.
08:53The perfect disguise to enter Aladdin's palace.
08:57And destroy him from within.
09:00To be continued.
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