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00:00a target. He doesn't dare touch me again. Those dozen bolts of divine dragonfire already hammered
00:06him back to beast form, provoking me further might annihilate his soul entirely. But the
00:11fury needed somewhere to go. The daughter he spent years crippling turns out to be the
00:16covenants bearer. Everything he built for Isolda, a joke, overnight. So he turned on Draven.
00:22A mongrog like you is utterly useless. You're not even fit to be my daughter's pet.
00:30I'm starting to wonder if your little display was a performance you and Seraphina arranged
00:34together. Father used a soul siphon on Draven, forced his way through layer after layer of
00:40memory, searching for proof of betrayal. The process is agony. He found nothing. Draven
00:47barely survived. But relief didn't last. When Isolde awoke and the full humiliation of the
00:53day settled in, something in her curdled. She seized Draven by the throat, teeth bared.
00:58You declared your love for me in front of everyone. And when it mattered, you chose a worthless organ
01:04over my life. Deven Vox, you deserve to rot.
01:10I look at his broken body, feel nothing. The moment that blade went through my heart,
01:15whatever connected us died with me. Kale speaks for me.
01:18You humiliated Seraphina in public, then abandoned Isoleth when she needed you. And now you come
01:26crawling back? Drerin, where is your shame?
01:30Killing intent flashes in Draven's eyes. His body tenses. Then the realization crashes in.
01:37No serpent's core. No power. Just a shell. He crumbles, pleading.
01:43Sarah, you hold the rite of dezygonation. You must be able to break a bond too, right?
01:48Break my bond with Izalek. And I'll serve alongside the White Spurpent.
01:52As your mate. After everything we had. You'll help me. I know you will.
01:58Kale's head whips toward me. Panic in his eyes.
02:02How adorable. You actually believe that.
02:09Darren, why would I help you? I gave you everything. You wanted her. I carried your
02:15child. You put a blade through my heart. I gave you the right to stand on the Sacred Ultra.
02:21You humiliated me in front of my entire clan. Every. Single. One.
02:26The fact that you're still breathing is mercy enough.
02:29The light dies in Draven's eyes. A long silence. Then he covers his face and a strangled sound
02:35escapes. He knows me well enough to know I don't look back. Draven returns to Isolde.
02:41In my last life, I never let anyone in the clan belittle him. I shielded his pride at every turn.
02:47In public. In private. Isolde doesn't bother with any of that. She tears him apart in front of
02:53everyone. Strips him down to nothing whenever the mood strikes. The clan follows her lead.
03:00They only kneel to whoever holds the leash. Draven's life now, compared to the one I gave
03:06him, worlds apart. Father summons me to the Sacred Altar. Before the entire clan, he performs
03:14the appropriate gesture. Forces Isolde to lower her head and kneel in front of me. But her words
03:19give everything away. Sarah, perhaps father went too far. But the clan cannot go a single
03:24day without an Archen. Would the Covenant let Clan Aureon crumble? Just to protect you?
03:30Let's set our differences aside. The clan's survival matters more than either of us.
03:35Not an apology. A negotiation. It works on the crowd. Hesitation ripples through. Then voices join in.
03:43Your Highness, the last Archic, your mother, gave her life to protect us from the Dark Horde.
03:48The Dark Horde is growing restless. Without a new Archen, when the wards fall, we won't survive a
03:54single assault. Please, grant the succession to the First Princess. I stay silent. My gaze catches
04:02the knowing glance Isolde and father exchange. The picture crystallizes. Father, mother was right
04:09about you. You have no vision. You'd do anything to put your first love's daughter on the throne.
04:14Even lie to the entire clan!
04:17Serafina, what are you talking about?
04:19I raise my hand. The Covenant responds. Every clan member's mana rank materializes before my eyes.
04:25Laid bare. Isolde's power is impressive. Radiant, even. But she's not the strongest here.
04:31Issalith is your arch's chosen.
04:34But Clan Avelian has never chosen its Archen by blood.
04:38It has always been by strength. My mother put you in power to prevent a civil war.
04:44And after all these years, you just couldn't let go.
04:47A voice rings out from the crowd.
04:49Thyra, Copper Scale Dragon. The only one who never mocked me since the Selection Rite.
04:55She stands straight-backed.
04:57Power should be earned by those who prove it. Not handed to those born with the right name.
05:02I meet her eyes. Give a single nod.
05:06Clan Arion will hold open trial of merit. Whoever stands last earns the right to rule.
05:12The clan erupts in cheers.
05:15Only Father and Isolde stand pale and still.
05:18That night, Kale clings to me as usual.
05:21He nuzzles his forehead into the curve of my neck. His nose brushes my jaw.
05:26I sigh, about to pull him closer.
05:28The world lurches.
05:30I sense it instantly. The ward barrier, shattered.
05:33Drake Spire's protective wards were set by my mother, sealed with a fragment of her own soul.
05:39No Dark Horde, no matter how powerful, could breach them easily, unless someone opened them from the inside.
05:45By the time Kale and I reach the surface, Drake Spire is in chaos.
05:50Dark Horde. Everywhere.
05:52High-tier beasts rampaging through the clan.
05:55A dragon hatchling is pinned under a beast's clawed foot, seconds from death.
06:00I move without thinking. One strike, the head rolls.
06:03Warm blood splashes across the hatchling's face.
06:06She throws herself into my arms, sobbing.
06:09Your Highness, I almost died.
06:11Mama and my sister, they led the beast away to protect me.
06:15I hand her to Kale, tell him to keep her hidden, and run in the direction she pointed.
06:20I arrive to find the mother and sister cornered by a pack of beasts, barely hanging on.
06:26I cut in.
06:28Save one.
06:29Then a second.
06:30A third.
06:31Through the smoke and carnage I spot Phyra.
06:34She's shifted.
06:35Copper dragon form.
06:37Leading a small squad in a defensive line.
06:39Shielding the elderly.
06:41The young.
06:41The wounded.
06:42Her commands are sharp.
06:43Her fighting is vicious.
06:44I make a note of her.
06:45By the end, I'm running on fumes.
06:48Then I see them.
06:49Isolde.
06:49Father.
06:50No surprise.
06:51The moment I announced the trial of merit, I felt it through the covenant.
06:54Someone was deliberately weakening the ward barrier.
06:57I knew he'd gamble everything.
06:59Isolde crouches in front of me.
07:01Her arm moves.
07:02A blade punches through my chest.
07:05I cough blood.
07:06Her eyes are fully black now.
07:08Void corruption running deeper than before.
07:10Sarah, so what if you hold the covenant?
07:12Put you in the ground, and the next Archen will still be me!
07:16I look down at the sword in my chest.
07:19Then I look up at Isolde.
07:21I smile.
07:22Thank you, sister.
07:23I needed you to do exactly that.
07:26Isolde freezes.
07:28Pain blazes through me, stamped into the soul.
07:31A memory the body never forgets.
07:33I can't stop the trembling.
07:36Father walks to my side.
07:38His voice is almost gentle.
07:39If you weren't the bearer, if you hadn't stood in Isolde's way, I might have let you live.
07:46Pity.
07:47I lift my head.
07:48My voice doesn't waver.
07:51So to kill me, you broke the ward barrier.
07:55Let the dark cord in.
07:59Let your own people die!
08:01Father doesn't blink.
08:03Acceptable losses.
08:03Everything I've done is to give Isolde the flame.
08:09To give the clan a stronger leader.
08:12The weak die to beasts, because they were never meant to survive.
08:17One thrust isn't enough for Isolde.
08:19She snaps.
08:20The blade drives into me again and again, pouring out everything she's held in.
08:25I'm stronger than you!
08:27Why do you get to decide?
08:29I suffered for centuries.
08:30And I was so close.
08:33And you took it all away.
08:35With a few words.
08:38Even Drarin.
08:40Her teeth grind harder.
08:42That mongrel.
08:44Said he regretted choosing me.
08:47Said I could never compare to you.
08:50So I took his core.
08:54Let him go ahead and wait for you.
08:56Sarah.
08:57The clan's faith belongs to me.
09:01So you have to die!
09:04Behind me, the roar of beasts.
09:06The screams of the dying, all tangled together.
09:09I look at Isolde.
09:10When the covenant granted me the right of designation.
09:14It also feared the power would be too concentrated.
09:18So it sealed half my divine power inside you as your talent.
09:22And it barred me from becoming Archon myself.
09:25If you had truly served the clan.
09:28If you'd held no malice towards me.
09:30The succession would have been yours without question.
09:33But you chose the wrong path.
09:35Your suffering wasn't my doing.
09:37It was father's obsession and your own hunger for power.
09:40But you blamed me for all of it.
09:42And now that you've struck me with intent to kill.
09:50The seal is broken, Isoleth.
09:55Your talent was never yours.
09:57It was my power holding you up.
10:00Now it comes home.
10:01The blade buried in my body erupts with golden light.
10:04Isolde tries to release the hilt.
10:06Her hands won't move.
10:07Mana drains from her body.
10:09Torrential.
10:09Unstoppable.
10:10Flooding into mine.
10:12Father, help me!
10:13My power!
10:14It's draining!
10:16I look up at father.
10:17He's always loved Isoled best.
10:20The daughter of the woman who owned his heart.
10:22That devotion never wavered.
10:24Not even now.
10:25He moves to kill me outright.
10:26But in his desperation, he forgets.
10:29Striking me carries a price.
10:32This time, the covenant shows no mercy.
10:36Golden dragonfire hammers father until his soul disintegrates.
10:40He scatters into nothing before our eyes.
10:43Isoled doesn't have time to grieve.
10:45Every shred of gifted talent has been reclaimed.
10:48Her mana plummets to that of an ordinary dragon.
10:51And behind her, the dark horde circles.
10:54I pull the sword from my chest and walk away.
10:57Isoled finally grasps her situation.
10:59Terror floods her face.
11:01Sarah, you can't do this to me!
11:03I'm Isoled!
11:04I'm the first princess of Clan Arion!
11:06I'm your sister!
11:08You can't abandon me for those!
11:10Scream behind me.
11:11This time, I don't turn around.
11:13I drive out every last beast and rebuild order on Drake Spire.
11:17The hatchling from before runs up and wraps herself around my leg.
11:21Your Highness, without you, I'd be an orphan.
11:24Clan members who used to look through me now kneel at my feet.
11:27Your Highness, we were blind before.
11:29You drove back the horde.
11:31You saved Dragonspine.
11:32The Archon's crown belongs to you.
11:35I shake my head.
11:36I place the Archon's crown into Thyra's hands.
11:38The one who never mocked me.
11:40The first to stand up for an open trial.
11:42The one who held the line when the dark horde came.
11:44Shielding the weak.
11:45Saving lives while others ran.
11:47I will always protect Clan Arion, but the Archon's seat was never meant to be inherited by blood.
11:53Power belongs to those who protect, not those who take.
11:56Thyra is the right choice.
11:57I return to the Sanctum.
11:58Devote myself to cultivation.
12:00With my full divine power restored, my strength surges beyond anything I imagined.
12:04Divine tribulation descends.
12:06Bolt after bolt.
12:07And I weather everyone.
12:08Then, Ascension.
12:09Under the gaze of the entire clan, I shift into my true form.
12:13A complete golden dragon, blazing against the sky.
12:16A silver dragon coils beside me.
12:18Kale, transformed through the bond.
12:20No longer silver serpentine, a silver dragon.
12:23Though his clingy nature hasn't changed one bit.
12:25His voice flows through the bond.
12:26Where you go, I go.
12:28That was the oath.
12:29I tilt my dragon head toward him.
12:31Then hold on tight.
12:32I've heard the divine realm has terrible weather.
12:35Two dragons, one gold, one silver, spiral upward and vanish into the clouds.
12:40They never come back.
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