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00:10the sovereign's bastard son arrogant little wretch your skull will be the crown jewel of my throne
00:28oh
00:29my lord
00:35gorgon has consumed 17 universes
00:38yes yes i'm aware
00:40noctus next time can you send me some with better taste large sure but the colors are offensive
00:48insolence you free-headed freak i have a proposal if you rip off your own heads i make it quick
00:53and painless then i go finish my drink that's fair right
00:59i am
01:15impossible you're supposed to be just
01:23this is why i hate working overtime
01:30we're done handle it yourself next time
01:36the four horsemen
01:38what are you doing here alarak your power surpasses even what i possessed at your age
01:44but power without character is nothing
01:46ragnarok is coming
01:48it's time you proved you deserve the role you were born into
01:51by our judgment
01:53we strip you of your divine power
01:56you are cast to the mortal realm
01:58the mark will show you the way
02:03ooo
02:18invested
02:18an
02:18with
02:18anger
02:20and
02:20get
02:20Кто
02:20the
02:20k
02:30Another useless piece of garbage.
03:04Well, well. Would you look at that?
03:14By our judgment, we strip you of your divine power.
03:19You are cast through the mortal realm.
03:21The mark will show you the way.
03:26These four little brats, they remind me of those four bastard horsemen.
03:31You need to lose them before this gets complicated.
03:34I should have lost them by now.
03:37Are you lost?
03:40How did you...
03:41Based on the stamina and the exile cities lake out,
03:44there was a 70% chance you'd stop or turn around in this area.
03:47Finding you wasn't hurt.
03:48I'm so tired.
03:54But really slow.
03:55You know that?
04:05What do you give home for me?
04:06You have the brand.
04:08We follow the brand.
04:10That's all.
04:11Ah, fresh meat!
04:13With a pack of brits.
04:14Pay up or we eat the little ones.
04:22I hate you.
04:24Go away.
04:41Let's do business.
04:42You're exhausted.
04:43I can see that.
04:44But these little ones,
04:46they've got something special about them.
04:48Sell them to me.
04:49The price?
04:51Enough to keep you comfortable in Exile City for a good long while.
04:54What do you say?
04:56No deal.
04:58The price is negotiable.
05:00I'm always generous when the goods are special.
05:03They're not goods.
05:04Kid, in Exile City,
05:06if I say they're goods,
05:08they're goods.
05:09Sell them to me,
05:10take the money and walk.
05:11I'll find them a good home.
05:12Based on Exile City's human trafficking records
05:15from the past six months,
05:16the survival rate for transactions
05:18protested by Scarbases for Skark is zero.
05:21The phrase good home
05:22doesn't apply here by any standard definition.
05:25Kid, knowing too much is a quick way to die young.
05:28You want to fight?
05:34All right, all right.
05:35I only do business where both parties are willing.
05:37But kid, if you change your mind,
05:39you know where to find me.
05:40The Black Snail Tavern.
05:41And remember,
05:42my patience is just like my prices.
05:45Subject to change.
05:46The Black Snail Tavern.
05:47It's an underground intelligence
05:49and grey market trade hub.
05:51How do you know that?
05:52I don't.
05:54But I do.
05:55We need information.
05:58And money.
06:02We have seven coppers.
06:05I'm hungry!
06:13These are worth something.
06:15There's an old woman in the corner of the East Market
06:17who buys rare herbs.
06:19You know herbs?
06:20They speak to me.
06:23We'll split up.
06:24Too many of us together is too obvious.
06:26You two, come with me to the East Market.
06:27We'll trade these herbs for cash and supplies.
06:30You take Daisy.
06:31Find somewhere safer and wait for us.
06:33Don't talk to anyone.
06:43You find more, bring them straight here.
06:45I'll take all of it.
06:48Steer clear of the old city district lately.
06:51Especially around the drains.
06:53Something's off.
06:55Off how?
06:55The rot.
06:56Wounds that go bad and stay bad.
06:59People burning up.
07:01Babbling nonsense.
07:02But they don't die.
07:03The guards sealed the quarter.
07:05Stay away.
07:14What's the rot?
07:15Is it bad?
07:16It's the withering.
07:17I can feel it.
07:19It's spreading.
07:20You can feel it?
07:22It's growing.
07:24We need more information.
07:26About the withering.
07:27About this city.
07:28About why any of us are here.
07:33Found the rat home.
07:39Those are scars, people.
07:40They followed us.
07:51Damn it!
07:52Gone!
08:09They didn't get far.
08:10Move!
08:15We lost them.
08:16For now.
08:17We can't stay here.
08:18Scar's trying to find us.
08:19They're trying to grab us.
08:20Let's fight them.
08:23There's a passage here.
08:24The air's moving and I can smell water.
08:26Might be old drainage.
08:28Move.
08:30This is part of the old city district's underground drainage system.
08:34Long abandoned.
08:35Unknown variables ahead.
08:36At least we've lost them for now.
08:38Follow the current downstream.
08:39Maybe there's another way out.
08:44Maybe there's another way out.
08:45We will.
08:50Let's go.
08:54We'll be麻
08:55You won't.
09:00You can't see him.
09:02Go!
09:02Come on!
09:13I'm sorry!
09:14Get up!
09:18I hate you!
09:24Who are these kids?
09:26And what the hell is this withering?
09:28Down there.
09:30The withering.
09:31It's thick.
09:33Something big is breathing down there.
09:36Found them!
09:39What happened?
09:41I thought you were running.
09:45Don't touch them!
09:56Again?
10:00Feisty little brat.
10:10The hell was that?
10:12Our power's depleted.
10:14We used too much just now.
10:17That's it.
10:19That's all you've got.
10:20And here I thought you were something special.
10:25Run!
10:28They're completely drained.
10:30They're just kids.
10:31They didn't have to do any of this.
10:33Not for me.
10:35Enough!
10:43Alaric!
10:44Grab him!
10:45Now!
10:46Now!
11:02You're okay.
11:04Stop him!
11:07Alaric!
11:09Daisy!
11:13Get those two first.
11:19Here comes the big bad wolf.
11:24What the fuck?
11:33We're not dying here!
11:35Not like this!
11:40Daisy!
11:41Daisy!
11:42Wake up!
11:43Alaric!
11:44I'm cold.
11:46Hold on.
11:47You're going to be fine.
11:52That decaying smell.
11:54Is this a piece of the withering source?
11:57Found you.
12:00Give me the girl.
12:02She's special.
12:04The city lord will want her.
12:06If I have her, I get power.
12:08What happened to you?
12:09My looks.
12:10Power doesn't need looks.
12:12I found it!
12:13It made me strong!
12:15Give me that stone!
12:16And the girl!
12:18Now!
12:23Acid.
12:25Hand it over!
12:27Both of them.
12:29Mine!
12:31I can't let him touch it.
12:36You idiot!
12:37You touched it barehanded?
12:39Ha!
12:41Become a monster!
12:42Then I'll take everything you s-
12:47Is this it for me?
12:49Dying in a filthy underground drain
12:51with this annoying little kid?
13:01Dying in a filthy one.
13:11Walla.
13:12Finn.
13:13Percy.
13:14Daisy.
13:14Give me your strength!
13:17Aaaah!
13:19My hands!
13:20My power!
13:23Mon.
13:24Monster.
13:25You're the real monster!
13:31Alaric, your hand.
13:34That feeling, those four marks.
13:41The ground isn't moving! Alaric!
13:45It's fully awake. It's angry because you destroyed its seed.
13:51Alaric! What's happening down there? We can't get to you! There's too many rocks!
13:56There's a large, high-energy biological signature approaching fast from below.
14:00Alaric, I recommend immediate relocation from your current position.
14:24This is the weakness.
14:31Alaric!
14:34My fist! It's burning!
14:36Our power is flowing to him.
14:38Alaric is directing it.
14:44They're resonating with me.
14:46Through the mark.
14:47Protect them!
14:48Connect!
14:49Now!
14:49How?
14:50No!
14:50No!
14:51Ah!
14:52No!
14:53No!
14:54No!
14:56No!
14:56No!
14:58No!
15:09No!
15:11No!
15:13No!
15:38It's pulling itself back together, and it's even angrier.
15:59The apocalyptic brand.
16:17Is it dead?
16:20For now, probably.
16:35Alaric, are you alright?
16:36That thing's gone.
16:38But I can still feel the withering.
16:39It's just... dimmer now.
16:42Alaric!
16:42It's quiet!
16:43You won, right?
16:44Right?
16:45Structural instability is increasing here.
16:47Alaric!
16:48You need to move!
16:49I'm fine.
16:50Daisy's fine.
16:51Stay up there.
16:53It's not safe down here.
16:55Alaric, your hand is shaking.
16:57I'm fine.
17:00Hold on.
17:07I'm fine.
17:15Hold on.
17:17Hold on.
17:19Hold on.
17:34Going somewhere.
17:50Exile City Guard, explain who you are, explain what that thing was, and explain that mark
17:56on your chest, or I kill you right here.
17:59We're survivors who wandered in here by accident.
18:02We don't know what happened.
18:03As for this...
18:04Old injury.
18:06Tell the truth, or die.
18:18Captain, there are corruption traces everywhere, plus a significant energy deletion not long ago.
18:24The point of origin is right there.
18:26And that thing just now?
18:28That was a conscious fragment of a withering core.
18:31I'm detaining you as a person of interest in both the rot outbreak in the Old District,
18:35and a series of recent disappearances.
18:38You will cooperate with this investigation.
18:40Disappearances?
18:41That's Scar's operation.
18:43But he mentioned the City Lord.
18:44Does that mean this whole thing?
18:46Alaric!
18:47We found a way down.
18:48What's your situation?
18:50Danger.
18:51Stay back.
18:54What are you plotting?
18:56Listen to me.
18:57You're a key person of interest in the withering incident.
19:00Come back with me.
19:01It's safer for you and the children.
19:03In your current state, carrying her.
19:05You won't make it out of this channel anyway.
19:07You won't make it out of this channel anyway.
19:22You're not taking Alaric!
19:28A little hero.
19:30Search the perimeter.
19:31There may be others.
19:40You're on.
19:46Don't worry about it.
19:48Everything costs something.
19:50I'm fine.
19:54Every minute there's something new.
19:57Your whole family's here?
19:59Good.
20:00I've changed my mind.
20:01Not the guard post.
20:05You're all coming with me to see the City Lord.
20:08The City Lord?
20:09Why?
20:10Because the City Lord has been very, very interested in the withering and in children with special
20:17abilities.
20:18And you've conveniently brought me both.
20:20This is an order, not a discussion.
20:23If you resist, I can't guarantee everyone's safety.
20:27The City Lord's been looking for children like these.
20:30Going with her might be walking straight into danger.
20:33But resisting here means the kids get caught in the middle.
20:36That gear is City Lord's special forces.
20:39I've run the numbers.
20:41Open resistance ends badly for us.
20:45We'll go.
20:47But you have to guarantee their safety.
20:50Smart.
20:52Smart.
20:52Smart.
20:53Smart.
20:54Smart.
20:55Smart.
20:55Smart.
20:55Smart.
20:55Smart.
20:56Smart.
20:57Smart.
21:00The City Lord.
21:02The Withering.
21:04This goes much deeper than I thought.
21:21Welcome to the real Exile City.
21:26There are multiple energy notes and suppression arrays inside this tower. We'll all be restrained.
21:33Wait here. The City Lord will see you alone.
21:36My people will watch them.
21:39You can't separate us.
21:41You're in no position to set conditions.
21:44Let them all in.
22:06No.
22:11City Lord. These individuals are suspected to be linked with the Rot outbreak. They're... unusual.
22:23Rise, Alara. Good work.
22:26So you and these four little ones destroyed one of my gardens?
22:29Garden? Does she mean the Amalgis?
22:32She... she knew it.
22:36I'm simply a Drifter trying to keep these kids alive.
22:39Survival instinct. Of course.
22:42Strange, though.
22:45Drifters don't usually generate energy signatures like yours.
22:48And they certainly don't come with four like these.
22:53My lord.
22:54With all due respect.
22:57A no-name Drifter with a pack of filthy brats chances his way through some minor contamination cleanup.
23:03And this earns him a place in your hall.
23:07And what would you suggest, Thane?
23:09Torture him.
23:10Find out who sent him.
23:11And send those little creatures to the feeding chamber.
23:16I dare you to try that.
23:25Easy, Thane. Be polite to our guests.
23:29Besides, he has a face worth keeping intact a little longer.
23:35Jumping straight to bloodshed is so dull.
23:39We do things differently, Thane.
23:43My lord, what are you?
23:47My finance minister doubts your value.
23:50You seem confident in yourself.
23:52Why don't we settle it with a little game?
23:54What kind of game?
24:01It's straightforward. Three rounds.
24:05Win.
24:06And you and your little ones go free with enough coin to live well in this city.
24:11You lose.
24:13You lose.
24:15You and the children stay.
24:17Forever working for me.
24:21My lord.
24:22This is beneath you.
24:24He's a nobody. He doesn't-
24:26Thane, are you scared?
24:29Scared I'll gamble away your precious merchandise?
24:35Well then, are you willing to put all five of your fates on the table against mine?
24:42This isn't a game.
24:43It's another trap.
24:45But she has information I need you.
24:49I'll play.
24:51What are the rules?
24:52That look in your eyes is doing something to me.
24:54Let's not waste it.
25:05Since you're so confident, we'll keep it simple.
25:07You see that?
25:09The Wheel of Fate.
25:11Exile City's most popular pastime.
25:14The rules are simple enough for a wrap to follow.
25:21I spin whatever little challenge the needle lands on, you complete it.
25:29Win, and you will all walk out with my prize.
25:33The rules, and you stay.
25:39Forever.
25:40As for the children, that will depend on my mood.
25:46The Wheel of Fate.
25:47City Lord, this is absurd.
25:49Someone like him should just be-
25:55Thane.
25:56Did I say you could speak?
26:01So, Mr. Drifter, will you play?
26:04Or would you rather have a chat with Thane instead?
26:09I have no choice.
26:11I have to play.
26:13I'll play, but the kids are off limits regardless of outcome.
26:17That condition doesn't change.
26:19A man of principle.
26:21Fine, I agree.
26:23But if you lose and change your mind,
26:25I'll give you the best possible view of what happens when someone tests my patience.
26:42I'll give you the best possible view of what happens when someone tests my patience.
26:48Round one, the trial of knowledge.
26:51The question.
26:52Before Exile City was built, what was the name of the last human kingdom on this land,
26:57and what caused its destruction.
27:00Time limit, 30 seconds.
27:03Damn it.
27:04Every time the Sovereign tried to teach me human history, I was asleep.
27:07That history was suppressed.
27:09A drifter like you couldn't possibly know it.
27:1320 seconds.
27:14Come on.
27:16Think.
27:17Think.
27:1915.
27:25The forgotten kingdom of Ascalon, its final king, seeking immortality, sacrificed the souls and
27:32dreams of his entire population in a forbidden ritual.
27:355.
27:36You're finished, boy.
27:39The forgotten kingdom of Ascalon, destroyed when its last king's forbidden immortality ritual,
27:45drew in the first waves of withering maize.
27:51The answer matches the record.
27:54Round one.
27:55Passed.
27:58Oh, what a surprise.
28:00Not just you, the little one behind you is hiding something too.
28:04This game just gets better.
28:07Round two.
28:19The trial of strength.
28:21You must withstand three strikes from the city lord's guard, Alara.
28:25Evasion is permitted, but you may not leave the real's boundary.
28:29After three strikes, you must still be standing.
28:33The trial of strength.
28:41Kid, Alara could cleave you in two with a single strike.
29:01Remember, if you fall or step out of the light, you lose.
29:06You lose.
29:27You lose.
29:42No!
29:44No!
29:46No!
29:47No!
29:48No!
29:50No!
29:51No!
30:18Round 2
30:20Round 2
30:21Past
30:29Elara
30:31How did you lose?
30:33I'm sorry mother
30:34Losers don't get to call me mother
30:37This is the last time
30:48You keep surprising me
30:50And now
30:52The round that decides everything
30:55The final one
31:18Final round
31:20The trial of fate
31:21You must answer one question
31:23Why
31:24Exactly
31:25Are you wandering here?
31:27The mark will show you the way
31:43Answer
31:44Or it counts as a loss
31:49Why am I here?
31:51Because
31:51I'm unworthy
31:53Unworthy of the power I was given
31:55Unworthy to exercise the authority I was handed
31:58Unworthy to understand what I was expected to protect
32:00As for who judged me
32:03That wasn't part of the question
32:05Stop acting deep
32:06If it doesn't accept it you still lose
32:12Round 3
32:13Round 3
32:14Passed
32:21Brilliant
32:22Absolutely brilliant
32:24Your unworthiness
32:26In my eyes
32:28That might be the greatest treasure
32:30You and the 4 children are free to leave
32:32Thank you city lord
32:40The lord of the withering sends his regards
32:51It's sufficient
32:52Our priority should be equipment, medicine and a secure location
32:57Over there
32:58There's a lot of pain
33:01So many of them
33:02Crying out
33:03That's the marker for the rot quarantine zone
33:06The rot
33:07Via doesn't seem to care about it at all
33:09Or is it all part of her plan
33:11The lord of the withering sends his regards
33:14The city lord has been very very interested in the withering
33:18And in children with special abilities
33:22Food first
33:23Then we find somewhere to stay
33:33What can you feel from here?
33:37A lot
33:39It's like
33:40A whole forest rotting
33:42And it's not just one source
33:44Something underground
33:45And something up high
33:47Very cold
33:48There's a posting in the city
33:50Looking for visiting healers
33:51It could get us into the quarantine zone
33:54What do you think Percy?
33:56I want to take a look
33:58The sound of their suffering
34:00It's different
34:02Not the same as the withering in the channel
34:03Maybe this is exactly why my father brought you to me
34:08Fine
34:09We'll go tomorrow
34:10But the moment there's danger
34:12You leave immediately
34:21This little girl's the one who knows herbs
34:23She better not wet herself when she gets inside
34:25It's not a place for kids
34:28We'll work the outer perimeter
34:30Herb's an observation
34:31We won't go into the main water
34:32Fine
34:34Don't touch the patients
34:35Don't take your masks off
34:36If something feels wrong, get yourself out
34:38Nobody's collecting your bodies if you die in there
35:03She's feverish
35:04Coughing
35:05Black mucus
35:06Fever
35:07Coughing
35:08Black fluid
35:08No saving her
35:10Just waiting
35:12Does it hurt?
35:13What does it feel like?
35:14Cold
35:14So cold inside
35:17And itchy
35:18Like something's crawling in
35:19This isn't bacteria or toxin
35:22Their life force is being drawn out from the inside
35:25Leaving a decaying shell
35:27It's the same thing the contaminated creatures in the channel were doing to their victims
35:30The withering
35:32Figure something out girl
35:35Can it be treated?
35:36These are useless
35:38But with my formula
35:39They would recover within a week
35:41Heh
35:42Big talk for a small kid
35:48A monster!
35:50He turned!
36:00Wally's war! Give me strength!
36:28You're not normal
36:30That powder, what was it?
36:34Something I prepared before coming in
36:36I don't have much
36:37We need rot bone flower
36:39Without it the patients will keep mutating
36:41Rot bone flower?
36:43Those are poisonous
36:44Fight poison with poison
36:46The rot bone flower's toxins can fool the tendrils into thinking the host is dead
36:51They'll stop absorbing, at least temporarily
36:54You know where the alchemist guild is in the old district
36:56Take us there
36:58That's a restricted zone
36:59Guards
37:00And worse
37:01You think the two of you can just
37:02Lead us in
37:03Find the rot bone flower
37:05And this is yours
37:06Or we walk out now
37:08And you wait for the next mutation to kill you
37:12Midnight tonight
37:13The abandoned well in the back alley
37:14I'll get you to the perimeter
37:16Going in is your problem
37:18That patient was forced into mutation on purpose
37:21The withering seed inside him was much more active than the others
37:25The old district
37:26The alchemists guild
37:28Viya
37:35How exciting
37:43Follow me
37:44Don't make any noise
37:45Step exactly where I step
37:46There are patrol teams around the old district's outer ring
37:49And inside the inner ring
37:51There are things
38:01The old alchemists guild
38:03Underground warehouse and lab
38:04Are down there
38:05There might still be rot bone flower
38:07But I'm warning you
38:10There's something down there
38:11Last time I was here
38:13Five of us went in
38:14And only two came back
38:15The two that came back went mad
38:17Rotted to death within days
38:19What kind of something?
38:20I don't know
38:21Black shadows
38:22Move
38:23Touch them when you rot
38:24Faster than with the rot itself
38:27My money?
38:32Moonlight moss
38:33It provides light
38:35And keeps bugs away
38:38The withering concentration is increasing
38:40But it's strange
38:42There's no growth activity
38:43It's more like it's
38:44Trapped here
38:51These bones carry residue too
38:53Faint
38:54But same the nature
39:00Wally's impossible strength
39:01Percy's command over disease and death
39:03Finn's ability to see the value and truth in things
39:05I hate you!
39:07That ability to bend probability like a curse
39:09War?
39:10Pestilence?
39:11Famine?
39:12Death?
39:12Death?
39:12No, that's insane
39:13They're children
39:33Are they absorbing the flowers toxic?
39:35This place isn't abandoned at all
39:37It's a functioning cultivation chamber
40:03The brand suppresses withering energy?
40:06Is that what my father built into the seal or is it something else?
40:10These shadows are highly concentrated withering energy?
40:14These shadows are highly concentrated withering energy
40:14But they don't seem fully conscious
40:16They seem to be
40:18Trained guards
40:19The rot bone flower has absorbed so much withering that it's become part of the contamination
40:25And it's feeding the shadows in return
40:27Can we still use it?
40:28Yes
40:29We need the root sap
40:30We have to get to it
40:36They won't cross within a meter of the brand
40:38Stay behind me
41:00That's sweet
41:09That's out
41:19That's 검'an
41:24hot
41:24You guys can't run around
41:26Not bad
41:27A Riddle
41:27Sub 99
41:42Master, feed. This place was never abandoned. Someone operates it.
41:47That man died a long time ago. Something's been keeping just enough of him functional
41:51to complete the feeding routine.
41:53We need to get what we came for, then leave immediately.
41:58Almost done.
42:27This one's smaller than the one in the channel, but it's more present. And something's different
42:33about it.
42:44Get behind me!
42:45Let's go!
42:49Let's go!
42:54Let's go!
43:02Let's go!
43:10Let's go!
43:14You hunger for the Withering, then hear.
43:30Move, move, move!
43:40Your brand.
43:42Don't worry about it.
43:43Did you get what we needed?
43:49Master, feed, Vaya, Thane.
43:53What are you feeding with the living citizens of this city?
44:09Last night's explosion almost broke me.
44:12But it felt like a forge.
44:15I can channel more now than I could before.
44:24The formula is ready.
44:26We need to test it.
44:28Garve sent a message this morning.
44:30He says there's a suitable candidate in the quarantine zone.
44:33Garve.
44:34Who does he answer to?
44:35Pure greed.
44:37Or is there something else driving him?
44:39Either way, the formula has to be tested.
44:43Contact him.
44:44Tonight, same place.
44:45We'll bring the formula.
44:58This orphan's been feverish for two days.
45:01The black spots appeared on his arm just this morning.
45:04Nobody's looking after him.
45:06He's just waiting to die.
45:09This might sting a little.
45:27It worked.
45:41That's a withering seed.
45:48But that was an early stage infection.
45:50For late stage cases.
45:52Or ones that have been deliberately fed like in the lab.
46:17That pulse activated every seed in the city.
46:19Their growth rate is going to accelerate.
46:21We need to mass produce the formula immediately.
46:24Harvesting citizens into seeds.
46:26Draining the withering they produce.
46:28Feeding it to something underground.
46:29Vyla.
46:30What is the end of all this?
46:32Percy, go back.
46:33Use everything we have and make as much of the formula as possible.
46:36Have Finn find any physicians or apothecaries who might be able to help.
46:39Where are you going?
46:41To see an old acquaintance.
46:43I have some questions that need to be answered.
47:02How did you find this room?
47:05You want to die?
47:06You carry a brand as well.
47:09But not one of divine origin.
47:11It belongs to the Lord of Withering.
47:13Veya's doing.
47:16Or Thane's.
47:17That pulse from earlier.
47:18That was the feeding hour, wasn't it?
47:20Withering cycle from every person in this city.
47:23Poured into whatever it's buried beneath the old district.
47:26And your role is to deal with the ones who stop being compliant.
47:29Knowing too much isn't good for you.
47:31Leave now.
47:32And I'll pretend you were never here.
47:35And if I don't?
47:37You'll kill me and report back to your master.
47:40This is an order!
47:41Stop!
47:54Fall.
47:56Now can we talk?
47:57You're a victim in this too.
47:59You, do you understand what you've done?
48:01That mark was a chain and a warden.
48:05Without it, the master would have sensed the first whisper of my turning against him.
48:10Who's your master, Veya or what's underground?
48:13My mother isn't herself anymore.
48:16Three years ago, ruins in the old district yielded something that should have stayed buried.
48:21Fane presented it to her.
48:25After that came the experiments on living here.
48:28The seeds, the obsession with bending the withering to her will.
48:33You burned out the mark that cuts the direct link between me and her.
48:37But she'll feel it.
48:38I don't have much time.
48:40What lies beneath the old district and tonight's pulse, what was that?
48:44A fragment of the Lord of Withering's own flesh.
48:48Sealed, bound, they've been trying to release its power for three years.
48:52Tonight was the monthly infusion, right?
48:54Using accumulated withering energy to crack the seal further.
48:57The lives and anguish of an entire city consumed to sustain a peace of a fallen god.
49:04Where's the seal?
49:07The old district center, under the ruins of the great temple.
49:10You can only enter with the city lord's order.
49:17Fane conducts his own rites and seal it.
49:20Behind my mother's back, cultivating something far more beautiful.
49:24A stronger order of soldiers, grown without her knowledge or blessings.
49:28Why are you helping me?
49:42My rebellious daughter finally made her choice.
49:45How heartbreakingly naive.
49:48No matter.
49:49Feed that still possesses its own will has always been
49:52so much richer than the ones who have already surrendered.
49:56City lord, you called for me.
49:59Our little guest and my disobedient daughter have been conspiring.
50:03One of the mark links has been severed.
50:06How dare she?
50:07I'll go deal with her immediately!
50:08Don't bother. Rebellious children come to understand reality in their own time.
50:13Our divinely branded guest and his four nascent vessels are far more important right now.
50:18What are you thinking?
50:19A game is only worth playing when both sides are evenly matched.
50:23He wishes to be a savior. He wishes to fix the rot.
50:25So, give him the opportunity.
50:27Give him a stage.
50:29Loosen the seal at that place by one more increment.
50:32And have Garve give him a... hint.
50:35I want to see whether the bearer of the apocalyptic brand can save this rotting city.
50:41Or whether the withering will swallow him in the end.
50:44Understood.
50:48Alaric.
50:50Grow into what you're meant to be.
50:52And bring your little keys with you.
50:54The ones sealed beneath this city and I.
50:57We're both growing rather... impatient.
51:14He's learned to listen.
51:16He's learned to protect.
51:19He's felt what it is to have nothing.
51:23But he hasn't seen the end yet.
51:30He's learning.
51:31Through wounds.
51:33Through failure.
51:35Through the small things he once couldn't be bothered to notice.
51:38But the trial is far from over.
51:43It's more accurate.
51:47I can't let fear…
52:15When the moment comes, when he has no choice but to choose, will he be ready?
52:22The Lords of Withering are nearly awake.
52:26Ragnarok is coming.
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