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00:00At our betrothal ceremony, my black dragon fiancé struck me hard across the face and publicly announced that he was
00:06breaking off our engagement.
00:08He looked down at me where I lay on the floor, blood staining the corner of my mouth. His eyes
00:14held nothing but disgust.
00:15You worthless thing. You couldn't even compete with her for a divine office and you think you're fit to be
00:20the black dragon queen?
00:21On the continent of Aeon, reproduction was the highest divine mandate. Just moments earlier, the moon goddess had bestowed the
00:28irrevocable divine offices of fertility.
00:30Lysandra had seized the first beam of golden light before anyone else. Everyone assumed that whatever office remained for me
00:35had to be worthless. Even my fiancé believed the same.
00:38Then his voice echoed throughout the entire temple of the moon goddess.
00:41I am ending our engagement!
00:43The temple fell deathly silent. Lysandra immediately slipped her arm through his and smiled with undisguised satisfaction.
00:49Please don't blame Valerian. And don't blame my sister, either. She's never known restraint since she was young.
00:56The moment she sees a strong beast in male, she loses all self-control.
01:00She was the one who spent her nights tangled in bed with different filthy half-breeds.
01:07The one who had actually spent her nights with different filthy half-breeds was her.
01:14The surrounding nobles erupted at once.
01:20So, she's been defiled all along.
01:23No wonder the black dragon crown prince wanted to break off the engagement.
01:27How could a woman like that ever be queen?
01:30Voices rose from every direction, demanding that I, the defiled one, be thrown out of the moon goddess's temple.
01:40Valerian neither investigated nor hesitated.
01:42He simply stared at me coldly, as if he had finally found a perfectly legitimate excuse to cast me aside.
01:49Valerian raised a hand, signaling the guards to remove my engagement ring.
01:54Throw her out.
01:55From this day forward, Evie is no longer my fiancée.
01:59I will marry the truly pure Lysandra, instead.
02:02Lysandra lowered her head, but she could not hide the smile tugging at her lips.
02:07Watching the two of them play their little act, I suddenly laughed.
02:10I fixed my gaze on Lysandra's hypocritical face and leaned closer.
02:14You're in such a hurry to marry him.
02:17Is it because you're afraid you won't be able to hide what's growing in your belly much longer?
02:21Lysandra's pupils contracted sharply.
02:23Her hand, instinctively, flew to her abdomen.
02:27The next second, I slapped Valerian across the face with a crack that echoed through the temple.
02:32Every noble in the sanctuary stood frozen in shock.
02:34Valerian's head snapped to the side from the blow, black dragon scales surfacing along his cheekbone.
02:39He turned to me, through gritten teeth.
02:44You dared to hit me?
02:46I pulled off my engagement ring, and threw it at his feet.
02:57You were the one who wasn't worthy of marrying me.
03:02Valerian laughed in fury.
03:04Evie, do you really think anyone else would dare have you?
03:08I didn't answer.
03:12Instead, I turned and walked toward the far end of the temple,
03:17raising a hand towards the black castle deep within the Fang Mountains,
03:21where thunderstorms raged year-bound.
03:24Storm Castle.
03:26It was home to Arerian, the deposed emperor exiled by the Solar Holy See.
03:32Rumor claimed his face was hideous,
03:34that he devoured bloodlines,
03:36and that he sustained his life on the bones of monsters.
03:42Rumor also claimed that every woman who approached him died.
03:46The assembled nobles collectively sucked in a sharp breath.
03:49Lysandra shrieked,
03:51Evie! Have you lost your mind?
03:53You'd rather marry that monster
03:56than admit you were wrong and apologize to Valerian?
04:00I looked at her and answered, one word at a time.
04:06Yes.
04:10I will marry him.
04:12Deep within the thunderclouds,
04:14the massive black gate swung open with a deafening roar.
04:17A low, icy male voice cut through the storm
04:20and reached every ear present.
04:22Little flower,
04:24are you sure you want to choose a monster cursed by the gods?
04:29I lifted my gaze toward the castle.
04:35I'm sure.
04:37Only much later did they learn
04:38that the divine office I had received was no worthless gift.
04:42It was Titan evolution.
04:44The power to evolve any low-born bloodline
04:48into an ancient Titan divine beast.
04:55When the gates of Storm Castle closed behind me,
04:58the mocking voices outside were swallowed by the thunder.
05:02There were no piles of bones inside the castle,
05:05as the rumors claimed.
05:06There were only rows of small beds.
05:09A calf-born child with a broken horn,
05:11a blind wolf cub,
05:12an eagle infant with deformed wings.
05:14They all lay quietly beside the hearth.
05:16The moment they saw Aurelion,
05:18each of them reached out their hands.
05:20Your majesty.
05:21The man everyone called a monster bent down
05:24and tucked a blanket around a young wolf cub.
05:26His voice was cool, yet gentle.
05:29Go to sleep.
05:30I stood by the doorway,
05:32my throat suddenly tightening.
05:34Aurelion turned to look at me.
05:35A black cloak concealed half his face,
05:38revealing only a pair of eyes as cold as a winter storm.
05:41If you regret your decision,
05:43there's still time.
05:45I looked at the abandoned children and shook my head.
05:47I don't regret it.
05:49I can stay and help take care of them.
05:51He studied me for a long moment.
05:53They are all discarded bloodlines.
05:56Children their own clans refuse to keep.
05:59If you stay here,
06:01the entire continent will treat you as the same kind of stain.
06:04A faint smile touched my lips.
06:06I already became a stain today.
06:08At least here, stains are allowed to live.
06:12Aurelion did not try to send me away again.
06:15That night,
06:16I handed out hot soup to the children
06:18and taught them how to say their own names.
06:20The youngest wolf cub clutched my finger and asked softly,
06:25Were you abandoned too?
06:31Before I could answer,
06:33a searing pain suddenly ripped through my abdomen.
06:35I grabbed the edge of the table,
06:37my face instantly draining of color.
06:39Aurelion crossed the room in a single stride.
06:42What happened?
06:43I looked down,
06:44and saw my stomach begin to swell in front of everyone.
06:47It was not a natural pregnancy.
06:49It was Lysandra.
06:50She had used parasitic grove nether.
06:52She was terrified that the truth about her affairs with half-breeds would come to light.
06:57If anyone discovered she was carrying a low-blend bloodline,
07:01she would never be allowed into the Black Dragon Royal family.
07:04So she had immediately chosen me as the scapegoat.
07:08She intended to transfer all those shameful embryos into my body.
07:11A cold, foul, viscous bloodline forced its way into me.
07:16Grinting my teeth,
07:17I pressed a hand against my abdomen and quietly activated my divine office.
07:21Titan bloodline evolution.
07:23The next instant,
07:24the cluster of inferior serpent-blood embryos began thrashing violently inside me.
07:28They had come to corrupt me.
07:29Instead,
07:30they were wrapped in layer upon layer of golden divine sigils.
07:33Their bones were reforged,
07:34their bloodlines purified by sacred fire,
07:36and their scales gradually transformed into black gold feathered markings.
07:40Aurelion watched the ancient sigil emerge in my palm,
07:43and for the first time,
07:44something changed in his eyes.
07:45This isn't a low-tier fertility rite.
07:48I looked up through the pain.
07:49Of course it isn't.
07:50She thought she was sending me a disgrace.
07:53But what I received...
07:55was a divine beast.
07:59Ten days later,
08:00war drums thundered outside Storm Castle.
08:03Valerian arrived at the head of the Black Dragon Legion and surrounded the fortress.
08:06Dressed in a pure white ceremonial gown,
08:09Lysander stood beside him,
08:10crying so hard she could barely remain upright.
08:12Evie, come out!
08:13I saw you meeting with a serpent blood in secret.
08:16What's in your womb is proof.
08:18Valerian drew his Black Dragon Greatsword and leveled it at the castle.
08:21Valerian, hand that woman over.
08:23She's carrying a lowborn serpent spawn.
08:26She's disgraced the royal bloodline and tainted your castle as well.
08:30Inside the fortress,
08:31the young beast inn children huddled together in fear.
08:34I pushed myself to my feet,
08:35using the railing for support.
08:37But Irelian moved toward the gate before I could.
08:40I caught hold of his sleeve.
08:41They came for me!
08:42He lowered his gaze to mine.
08:44The moment you stepped into this castle,
08:46they stopped coming for just you.
08:52The black gates swung open.
08:54Aurelian walked alone into the pouring rain.
08:57Valerian sneered.
08:58Fallen Emperor!
08:59Are you really willing to go to war with the Black Dragon clan over a tainted woman?
09:05Aurelian didn't answer.
09:06He simply raised a hand.
09:08The first slap sent Valerian flying,
09:10smashing through three war chariots before he hit the ground.
09:13The second landed across Lysander's face.
09:15She crashed into the mud,
09:16her pristine white gown mistedly stained black.
09:19Aurelian's voice carried over the thunder.
09:21I have not of you, Katie.
09:22All of you are still my subjects.
09:25And she is a woman under my protection.
09:28Valerian climbed back to his feet,
09:30blood smeared across his mouth.
09:32You'll regret this!
09:34Clutching her cheek,
09:35Lysandra glared with venomous hatred.
09:37Evie,
09:38you can't hide forever.
09:40The moment you give birth to that filthy serpent spawn,
09:43the entire continent will finally see what you really are!
09:48The instant the words left her mouth,
09:50a blood-red bolt of lightning erupted from deep within the castle.
09:54Pain tore through my abdomen.
09:56The child was coming.
10:05Aurelian spun around sharply.
10:07Bracing myself against the wall,
10:09I made my way toward the castle gates one step at a time.
10:12Rain soaked through my dress.
10:14Every eye fixed on what I held in my arms.
10:17There was no snake.
10:18No low-born beastling.
10:20Only a black and gold newborn creature with stag antlers
10:23and enormous wings folded against its back.
10:25It opened a pair of ancient golden eyes.
10:28In the distance,
10:29an elderly scholar suddenly dropped to his knees,
10:31his voice shaking uncontrollably.
10:33A Perion!
10:34It's a Perion!
10:35An ancient titan beast that went extinct 3,000 years ago!
10:39The color drained from Lysandra's in an instant.
10:41Valerian refused to believe it.
10:43He grabbed the elderly scholar by the collar
10:45and hauled him up.
10:46Look again!
10:47That thing came from a low-born serpent embryo.
10:50How could it possibly be a titan?
10:52Your Highness,
10:52the Perion is a titan of judgment and storms.
10:55Its antlers pierce deception
10:57and its wings devour curses.
10:59A bloodline like this cannot be forged.
11:02The crowd erupted into chaos.
11:04The nobles who had mocked me moments earlier
11:06began backing away.
11:07Some turned to look at Lysandra.
11:09Wasn't she the one who said
11:10Evie was carrying a serpent spawn?
11:12If that's a titan,
11:13then who transferred those serpent embryos into her?
11:16Lysandra immediately burst into tears.
11:19It wasn't me!
11:20She must have used dark magic!
11:22Evie has been jealous of me since we were children!
11:24She's trying to ruin my wedding!
11:26Holding the Perion in my arms,
11:27I looked at her coldly.
11:29Then let the sacred moon lily examine our divine offices.
11:33Lysandra's sobbing cut off instantly.
11:36Valerian immediately stepped in front of her.
11:38That's enough.
11:40No one is going to publicly humiliate my fiancée.
11:43I laughed.
11:44She can humiliate me in front of everyone.
11:47But I'm not allowed to ask her a single honest question.
11:50Aurelian looked at Valerian,
11:51his gaze dark and icy.
11:53You're protecting her awfully quickly.
11:55Almost as if you're afraid of something.
11:58Valerian's expression darkened.
11:59Black dragon fire churned in his palm.
12:01He no longer dared to attack.
12:03Yet he refused to leave.
12:04Behind him,
12:05Lysandra dug her nails deep into her palms.
12:07I knew she wouldn't stop.
12:08And sure enough, at midnight,
12:10just after I laid the Periton back in its cradle,
12:12another tearing pain ripped through my abdomen.
12:14This time, it wasn't one bloodline.
12:16It was three.
12:17The savage frenzy of a werewolf,
12:19the venomous cunning of a fox blood,
12:21and the violent ferocity of a panther blood
12:23were all forced into my body at once.
12:30The pain drove me to my knees.
12:34Aurelian rushed into the room
12:35and caught me before I collapsed.
12:37Evie!
12:39I gripped his wrist tightly
12:41as beads of cold sweat rolled down my face.
12:44She's trying to overload my divine office.
12:47For the first time,
12:49killing in-text surfaced in Aurelian's eyes.
12:52How do we stop her?
12:54I looked up at him.
12:56I need a stronger divine blood anchor.
12:59One powerful enough that her parasitic link
13:01can never reach me again.
13:03Aurelian fell silent.
13:06Thunder roared outside.
13:08In a low voice, he said,
13:11My bloodline was sealed by the solar holy seam.
13:14Anyone who gets too close to it is burned.
13:18I didn't let go of his wrist.
13:23Then let me get close.
13:25He looked at me,
13:27his voice roughing on me.
13:28Do you understand what that means?
13:30I answered,
13:33It means that from tonight onwards,
13:35I won't just be a woman living in your castle.
13:38I'm going to become your wife.
13:42That night,
13:43the thunder over storm castle fell silent.
13:47The three chaotic bloodlines forced into my body
13:50were burned away inch by inch
13:52by Aurelian's golden divine fire.
13:55I watched the curse beneath his skin
13:57begin to crack apart.
13:59His black cloak fell to the floor.
14:03The monster of legend,
14:05said to possess a hideous face,
14:07revealed features more radiant than sunlight itself.
14:11His eyes were gold.
14:13A solar crown appeared upon his brow.
14:16I froze.
14:17You're not a fallen emperor.
14:21Aurelian dusted the shrag around my shoulders,
14:24his voice low and steady.
14:26I was once the god king of the solar holy sea.
14:29Thirty years ago,
14:30I defied the holy sea's Kree
14:32and took in abandoned children
14:33with broken bloodlines from every race.
14:35For that,
14:36I was stripped of my throne
14:37and sealed within storm castle.
14:39They said I had tainted the higher bloodlines.
14:44But I simply didn't want to watch children die.
14:46As I looked at him,
14:48I finally understood
14:49why the children called him your majesty.
14:52Your majesty?
14:54He wasn't a monster.
14:55He was the last king on this continent
14:56willing to protect the weak.
14:58By dawn,
14:58the new life within me had stabilized.
15:00It was neither wolf,
15:01serpent,
15:02nor panther.
15:03It was a sphere of pure white light.
15:05It bore antlers,
15:06a lion's tail,
15:07and a prophetic divine sigmon upon its brow.
15:09Aurelian's hand rested gently against my abdomen.
15:12Even his breathing grew lighter.
15:13Sacred white oracle stag,
15:15the heir to the sun god king.
15:17The castle children immediately crowded around us.
15:20The little wolf bab stood on tiptoe
15:22and looked up at me.
15:23Will it call you mom like the perion does?
15:25I ruffled his hair.
15:27It will.
15:29And it'll call you big brother too.
15:32For a moment,
15:33I thought I could finally breathe.
15:37But the instant the sacred white oracle stag took form,
15:40it also shattered the exile seal binding Aurelian.
15:43The solar holy sea called him back from the heavens.
15:46He had to return immediately and reclaim the authority of the god king.
15:50Otherwise,
15:51the laws of the mortal world would turn against me and the children.
15:56Aurelian slipped a sun ring onto my finger.
16:00I'll return as quickly as I can.
16:03An hour in the holy sea may mean weeks have passed in the mortal world.
16:08I caught his hand.
16:10His palm covered the back of my hand.
16:14Lysandra won't let me go.
16:16The ring can summon my divine fire.
16:19Hold on, Evie.
16:20He lowered his head and kissed my forehead.
16:23When I return,
16:25I'll make the entire continent
16:27acknowledge you as my queen.
16:29A golden gate to the heavens opened.
16:33The moment Aurelian departed,
16:35Black Dragon war banners rose once more along the distant ridgeline.
16:40This was the moment Lysandra had been waiting for.
16:43This time,
16:45Valyrian did not come with the Black Dragon Legion.
16:47He brought his aunt instead,
16:49Seraphina,
16:50the Black Dragon clan's demigod elder.
16:53She held dominion over the continent's divine office of Bloodline Judgment.
16:57With a single decree,
16:58she could brand any woman an impure vessel
17:00and send her to a public execution platform.
17:03Seraphina stood outside Stormcastle,
17:05rain soaking her silver hair,
17:06her gaze devoid of warmth.
17:08Evie,
17:10you defied the teachings of the Moon Goddess
17:12and secretly nurtured a forbidden bloodline.
17:17You will submit to judgment immediately.
17:20I stood within the barrier.
17:24The sun ring clutched in my hand.
17:26When Aurelian returns,
17:28I will personally go to the Holy Sea
17:30and face this so-called judgment.
17:32Lysandra smiled.
17:34Little sister,
17:35are you still waiting for that monster?
17:38If he truly cared about you,
17:40would he have left you here alone?
17:41Valyrian stared at my abdomen,
17:43jealousy twisting his features.
17:45Cut her open.
17:48If she's carrying a lowborn beast bond,
17:51execute her on the spot.
17:53But if she truly carries the God King's bloodline,
17:56he paused,
17:56then it must not be allowed to live.
17:58His voice dropping even lower.
18:00Seraphina did not object.
18:02She raised her demigod staff,
18:04and black dragon fire crashed against the barrier.
18:12After a full day and night of bombardment,
18:15cracks finally appeared in the sun barrier.
18:17I hid the children in the castle cellar.
18:20The Parian stood guard at the entrance.
18:22Though still young,
18:23storm fire already burned across its wings.
18:26I pressed the sun ring into my palm
18:28and activated its divine sigmas with my blood.
18:31But the heavenly gate never opened.
18:33The difference in time between the holy seat
18:35and the mortal lurk was even cooler than I had imagined.
18:38Aurelian could not hear me.
18:39When the 36th strike fell,
18:40the barrier shattered.
18:42The black dragon guards stormed the castle.
18:45They kicked over cradles,
18:47smashed the hearths,
18:49and dragged the abandoned children out of the cellar.
18:52I shielded a blind wolf cab in my arms,
18:55only to be knocked to the ground by Valerian's kick.
19:02So these are your children.
19:09No wonder you're so fond of monsters.
19:17Lysanda walked up to me
19:18and grabbed a fistful of my hair.
19:21Evie,
19:22do you know what I hated most about you?
19:24We were both born from the same sacred moon lily.
19:28So why did everyone say you were pure?
19:31Why did they say
19:32you looked more like a bride blessed by the gods?
19:36I glared at her through clenched teeth.
19:38So that's why you stuffed your sins into my body?
19:41She laughed.
19:45So what if I did?
19:47Do you have any proof now?
19:50She drew an enchanted surgical knife from her sleeve.
19:54Valerian pinned my shoulders down.
19:56Serapirina stood nearby and made no move to stop them.
19:59The blade pressed against my abdomen.
20:01I fought with everything I had.
20:02Don't touch him!
20:04Lysandra's smile widened.
20:06Him?
20:07You really believe that freak in your womb is the god king's heir?
20:11The moment the blade cut into my skin,
20:13the sun ring erupted with golden light.
20:15But Serapina lifted a hand and suppressed it.
20:18Seal her summons.
20:19The holy Sinti cannot learn of this.
20:21Blinding pain swallowed my vision.
20:23Reaching into the golden sphere of light,
20:25Lysandra forcibly dragged out the unborn sacred white oracle stag before its term.
20:29The tiny divine beast curled in her palm,
20:31the solar crown on its brow still glowing faintly.
20:34She faws.
20:35Valerian froze as well.
20:36Even Serapina's expression changed dramatically.
20:38Great!
20:39But Valerian had already gone mad with jealousy.
20:41He snatched the divine fetus from Lysandra's hands and hurled it to the ground.
20:45Golden radiance exploded outward.
20:46A scream tore from my throat.
20:49Valerian crushed the light beneath his foot.
20:51His voice trembled, though he desperately tried to hold himself together.
20:54It's fake.
20:55It has to be fake.
20:56Staring at the solar crown signal lying amid the shattered light,
20:59Serapina staggered back a step, her face draining of color.
21:02You fool.
21:03What you just destroyed wasn't a freak.
21:05It was the direct air of the sun god king.
21:09The castle fell completely silent.
21:11Valerian stared down at the scattered remnants of golden light beneath his feet,
21:14the color slowly draining from his face.
21:16Lysandra's hands were still stained with my blood.
21:18Her voice rose sharply.
21:20That's impossible.
21:21How could Evie be carrying the sun god king's child?
21:24Serapina struck her across the face.
21:26Shut up!
21:27Do you have any idea what we've done?
21:29Lysandra stood frozen in shock.
21:31The hand gripping Valerian's ward began to tremble.
21:35Unc, what do we do now?
21:37Serapina looked over the ruined castle,
21:39then at me pinned in a pool of blood beneath the black dragon guards.
21:42The fear in her eyes slowly hardened into cruelty.
21:45Seal off the castle.
21:46Kill every living thing.
21:47Announce to the public that Evie conceived a forbidden abomination
21:50and took her own life out of shame.
21:52As for the child, the solar holy sea must never learn what happened.
21:56Lysandra nodded immediately.
21:57Yes!
21:58Kill her!
21:59As long as she's dead, no one will ever know!
22:01Sword in hand, Valerian walked toward me.
22:04He crouched down and pressed the tip of the blade against my throat.
22:07Evie, tell me, how did you turn inferior bloodlines into titans?
22:11I looked at him and suddenly laughed.
22:14He frowned.
22:14What are you laughing at?
22:16Using the last of my strength,
22:18I raised my blood-covered hand and pressed it against the sun ring.
22:21Moments ago its power had been sealed.
22:23But they had forgotten something.
22:25The heir of the sun god king had died here.
22:27The bloodline itself had become the greatest summons of all.
22:30I smeared the lingering golden divine light of my child across the ring's surface.
22:35I'm laughing because you're too late.
22:42In the next instant, the sky above Storm Passel split apart.
22:48Not with thunder.
22:49With a rift in the heavens, a colossal golden sun gate burst through the clouds.
22:53The radiance of a million soldiers of the Holy Sea illuminated the entire Fang Mountains.
22:58Varian collapsed backward onto the ground.
23:00Lysandra stumbled away with a scream.
23:02The staff in Seraphina's hand shattered instantly.
23:04At the end of a golden stairway descending from the heavens,
23:07Aurelian walked down step by step.
23:09He wore the battle armor of the sun god king.
23:12Behind him stood the twelve high gods of the northern Holy Sea.
23:15Moments earlier, his face had still carried the joy of returning home.
23:18But when he saw me lying in a pool of blood,
23:20when he saw the injured children scattered throughout the castle,
23:23when he saw the shattered divine light of the sacred white oracle stag,
23:26the sun within his eyes went dark.
23:28In its place rose black gold flames capable of reducing the world to ashes.
23:34His voice was quiet, yet the entire Fang Mountains trembled.
23:39Who laid a hand on my wife and child?
23:42Seraphina dropped to her knees with a thumb.
23:43Your majesty, it was a misunderstanding!
23:45Aurelian raised a hand.
23:47Seraphina's wings were instantly reduced to ash by solar fire.
23:50She did not even manage to finish her scream
23:52before her demigod divinity was ripped from her body
23:55and burned into a charred black husk.
23:57Every black dragon guard fell to their knees.
24:02Valerian was driven nearly mad with fear.
24:04Suddenly, he lunged at Lysanda
24:06and drove his sword through her shoulder,
24:09pinning her to the ground.
24:10It was her!
24:11She deceived me!
24:12Navy, Lysanda used the parasitic brood med.
24:14She was the one who stuffed other people's embros into your body.
24:17She was the one who told everyone you were impure!
24:22Varian, you were just saying you wanted to marry me!
24:25Shut up, you bitch!
24:26You ruined me!
24:27Aurelian gathered me into his arms.
24:30Divine light flowed through my body, healing my wounds.
24:33But it could not bring back the child
24:35that had been crushed beneath Valyrian's foot.
24:39I want the entire continent to hear the truth.
24:43I want them to admit it themselves.
24:47Very well.
24:49He raised his hand and summoned the Moon Goddess's Judgment Stone.
24:53The ancient sacred stone rose above the continent.
24:56From the temple of the Moon Goddess to the swamp territories,
25:00from the nightborne estates to the wolf packs of the frozen flames,
25:04every bloodline oath lit up at once.
25:07Everyone who shared Lysanda's bed.
25:10Everyone who slandered me.
25:13Now!
25:15Speak the truth.
25:19The first person dragged before the Judgment Stone
25:21was the Serpent Lord of the Swamplands.
25:23He had been hiding in an underground gambling den.
25:26When the Moon Goddess's chains yanked him into the sky,
25:28he was still wearing the silver cufflicks Lysanda had given him.
25:31He fell to his knees beneath the Judgment Stone,
25:33his face deathly pale.
25:34I confess, Lysanda and I were involved in secret.
25:39She was afraid that carrying a Serpent Blood Child
25:41would ruin her chance of marrying into the Black Dragon Royal family.
25:45So she used the parasitic brood med to transfer the Ambrose into Evie.
25:49He's lying!
25:52The second person dragged forward
25:55was the future Crown Prince of the Werewolf Clan.
25:59He knelt within the Curtain of Light,
26:01trembling uncontrollably.
26:03I confess as well.
26:07Lysandra said her sister was born to take the blame.
26:10As long as I provided resources,
26:12she would allow me to participate in her breeding plan.
26:17The third was the underground champion of the Panther Clan.
26:22The fourth was a wealthy eagle-gayer merchant from Miami.
26:26The fifth was Valerian's personal guard.
26:30One after another,
26:31those who had once stood above me and called me filthy,
26:35had their masks stripped a by the Moon Goddess's Judgment Stone.
26:39Lysandra collapsed onto the ground,
26:41tears streaking her ruined makeup.
26:43As more and more testimonies emerged,
26:46Valerian finally realized that from beginning to end,
26:49he had been nothing more than the sharpest weapon in her scheme.
26:57He crawled to my feet.
27:02Evie, I was wrong.
27:05She deceived me.
27:07I thought you had betrayed me.
27:10I looked down at him.
27:12You weren't deceived.
27:15You chose to believe her.
27:19His face went white.
27:22I continued.
27:24You wanted to believe I was filthy
27:26because that gave you an excuse to break our engagement.
27:29You wanted to believe she was pure
27:32because that you could bring her into the Black Dragon Royal Family.
27:36And you were willing to crush my child
27:38because you couldn't accept that after leaving you,
27:41I became the wife of the God King.
27:45Valerian could not say a single word.
27:48Aurorion took my hand.
27:49How do you wish to judge them?
27:51I looked at Lysandra.
27:53She was still crying.
27:56Little sister, I'm your only sister!
28:00We were born from the same sacred moon lily.
28:04You can't do this to me!
28:06I regarded her calmly.
28:08When you forced those serpent Ambrose into my body,
28:11you didn't remember I was your sister.
28:12When you cut open my body,
28:14you didn't remember I was your sister.
28:15When you watched Valerian crush my child beneath his foot,
28:19you didn't remember I was your sister.
28:22Lysandra's sobbing stopped.
28:23For the first time, genuine fear appeared in her eyes.
28:26Aurorion unfurled the solar edict.
28:29Lysandra, stripped of the sacred moon lily's blessing,
28:32deprived of her divine office,
28:33and permanently exiled to the howling abyss.
28:37Valerian, stripped of his Black Dragon succession rites,
28:40deprived of his dragon soul,
28:42and exiled to the howling abyss.
28:44All accomplishes shall be judged
28:45according to the severity of their crimes.
28:47No! I'm the Black Dragon Crown Prince!
28:50You can't do this to me!
28:51Aurorion did not even spare him a glance.
28:55The moment you crushed my child beneath your foot,
28:58the Black Dragon clan ceased to have a Crown Prince.
29:07The gates of the howling abyss opened in the earth below.
29:11It was the deepest prison of the solar holy sat,
29:13where time flowed painfully slowly.
29:16Every second stretched a criminal's fear
29:18into the equivalent of a year.
29:19Chains dragged Atlasanya toward the abyss.
29:24Suddenly, she screamed at me.
29:26Evie, do you think you've won?
29:28Your child is dead!
29:29The heir of the Sun King is never coming back!
29:32My body stiffened.
29:34Aurorion's arm immediately tightened around me.
29:36Just as the gates of the abyss were about to close,
29:39the Parion suddenly soared out throughout from the castle.
29:43Its black gold wings spread wide,
29:45and the judgment siglem on its brow shone down
29:48upon the limbering golden mist scattered across the ground.
29:51In the next instant,
29:52countless heartbeats echoed from beneath the castle.
29:55The bloodlines Lysandra had transferred into me,
29:57the Titan essence I had purified,
29:59the divine light left behind by the Sun God King's child
30:01all of them ignited at once.
30:03Dark roots from the sacred moon lily began growing from my palm.
30:08Then a young voice sounded inside my mind.
30:11Mother, I'm not dead yet.
30:14The sacred white oracle stag had not died.
30:18What had been crushed was only its mortal vessel,
30:21one that had not yet fully come into existence.
30:23Its true divine soul had been protected
30:25within the source of my being
30:26by my divine office of Titan bloodline evolution.
30:29When Attawarion heard that small voice call out,
30:32his eyes reddened for the first time.
30:34He placed his hand over the sacred moon lily mark in my palm.
30:37Golden divine fire interclined with the black floral signals.
30:41Between our joined hands,
30:42the faint image of a tiny white stay opened its eyes.
30:45It was still weak, yet it gently nuzzled my fingertips.
30:49My throat tightened.
30:52My baby.
30:54In a low voice, Attawarion said,
30:57I'll take you both back to the solar holy seat.
31:00I'll use the authority of the God King to rebuild its body.
31:04I shook my head.
31:05Attawarion looked at me.
31:07I turned towards the children in the castle,
31:09the ones who had been hurt, abandoned,
31:11and treated as stains by every race on the continent.
31:14The thing truly broken on this continent isn't bloodlines.
31:19It's the people who use bloodlines to decide
31:22who deserves to live
31:26and who deserves to die.
31:31After returning to Solar Shaysay,
31:33every high God urged me to rest and recover.
31:36But I never stopped.
31:37I took control of the sacred moon lily's laws of repreaction
31:40and inherited the continent's vine office of bloodline judgment.
31:46My first decree abolished the judgment of impure vessels.
31:51My second decree forbid any race from abandoning children
31:56because of physical defects, mixed heritage, or low-ranking bloodlines.
32:01My third decree classified all divine offices
32:04that transferred reproductive suffering onto others
32:07or stole another person's body as the highest category of crime.
32:11The Black Dragon Clan, the Werewolf Clans,
32:14and the Serpent Swamlins all opposed me.
32:16They claimed I was destroying tradition.
32:18They argued that inferior bloodlines
32:21should never have consumed valuable resources.
32:25They insisted that a woman who had risen through childbirth
32:28had no to rewrite the laws of the continent.
32:34I never argued with them.
32:36Instead, I brought the At-Paradic with me
32:39to the first Continental hearing.
32:41That day, representatives from every race
32:44filled the Temple of the Moon Goddess.
32:47The acting patriarch of the Black Dragon Clan sneered.
32:51Your Majesty, you want to protect every defective child.
32:56Where will the resources come from?
32:58Are the higher races supposed to pay for the lower races?
33:05Before I could answer,
33:07the Perrion spread its wings.
33:14The judgment of storms descended.
33:17Behind the acting patriarch appeared memories of him
33:21personally drowning.
33:23Three mixed-blood children.
33:25The entire hall fell silent.
33:27I looked at him.
33:30We can discuss resources.
33:33We do not negotiate
33:35about murdering children.
33:44He was taken away on the spot.
33:50The second to object was the future king of the werewolf clans.
33:53He had barely finished saying,
33:57Mixed bloods will contaminate the race.
34:00When the image of the sacred white oracle stag appeared behind me,
34:03the divine signal on its brow ignited.
34:07Evidence of the werewolf's illegal trafficking of vulnerable children over the previous 20 years
34:12was projected across the ceiling of the temple.
34:14Then came the third,
34:16the fourth,
34:17the fifth.
34:18By the end of that day,
34:19everyone finally understood.
34:21I was no longer the Eevee they had once judged.
34:24I had become the Titan Mother Goddess,
34:26the one before whom no sin could remain hidden.
34:29One year later,
34:31the sacred white oracle stag was reborn.
34:34On the day it touched the earth,
34:37dawn broke early across the continent.
34:40The bells of the Temple of the Moon Goddess rang on their own.
34:45Dead trees flowered in the night-born estates.
34:50The wolves of the frozen plains lifted their heads and howled as one.
34:55Holding the newborn stack in his arms,
34:57Aurelian stood upon the golden steps of the Solar Holy Seat,
35:01his voice carrying across the entire continent.
35:05This is my firstborn son,
35:08and the child of Queen Ivory.
35:10Anyone who dares call him a monster again,
35:13declares war upon the Solar Holy Seat.
35:17No one spoke.
35:19I stood beside him with the parian in my arms.
35:23The sacred white oracle stang gazed at me with bright, dew-soft eyes.
35:28Then it leaned out of Aurelian's embrace.
35:31Mother.
35:32The voice was barely above a whisper,
35:35yet tears immediately filled my eyes.
35:39Elurian brushed them away.
35:42He came back.
35:44I nodded.
35:47But we're not finished yet.
35:51Over the decades that followed,
35:53I awakened one lost Titan bloodline after another.
35:56The third child was the Nemean Ripper Panther.
36:00It was born on a night of judgment.
36:02The moment it entered the world,
36:04every underground family involved in trafficking children
36:07was marked by the killing sigil on its brow.
36:10The fourth child was the Star Sea Livinarithan.
36:16When it rose from the ocean,
36:18its shadow covered entire coastlines,
36:21leaving no refuge for those who smuggled low-born children across the seas.
36:26The fifth child was the Eternal Phoenix.
36:31On the day she was born,
36:33every avian race crossed the skies above the continent
36:37and surrendered their ancient tribal laws to her.
36:41Hundred years later,
36:42I returned to Storm Castle in the Fang Mountains
36:45with a complete codex of the restored Titan beasts.
36:50It was no longer a place of exile.
36:52It had become the largest sanctuary
36:55and academy for children on the continent.
36:57The blind wolf cub from years ago
36:59had grown into the academy's headmaster.
37:02He stood at the gate with the newest children
37:04and bowed.
37:06Welcome home, mother.
37:08I ruffled his hair
37:09just as I had on that stormy night long ago.
37:14In the distance,
37:16the gates of the Howling Abyss opened briefly.
37:19Lysanda and Valormard were brought out
37:21for their once-in-a-century public review.
37:24Neither retained a trace of their former pride.
37:29Stripped of her divine office,
37:31Lysandra was pale and frem,
37:32no longer capable of shifting her suffering onto others.
37:34Without his dragon soul,
37:36even standing upright was difficult for Valentian.
37:38When they saw the Titan divine beasts gathered behind me,
37:41only fear remained on their faces.
37:42Valentian crawled forward on his knees.
37:44Evie, I've suffered enough.
37:46Please, let me pass on.
37:48I looked at him and spoke calmly.
37:49When you crushed my child,
37:51he begged you too.
37:52He collapsed onto the ground.
37:53Suddenly, Lysandra laughed,
37:54her voice rough and broken.
37:56You act so noble now,
37:57but don't forget,
37:58I'm the one who made you into a mother goddess.
38:00If I hadn't forced those embryos into you,
38:02you would have been nothing.
38:03I walked over and stopped in front of her.
38:05You're wrong.
38:06What you gave me was never a gift.
38:08It was a crime.
38:10I didn't become who I am because you hurt me.
38:12I became who I am
38:14because I refused to let your cruelty define me.
38:17Lysandra's laughter died away.
38:18The gates of Tartarus opened once more.
38:22She and Valyan were dragged back into the darkness.
38:25This time, I never looked back.
38:29Orion stepped to my side and took my hand.
38:33Tired?
38:34I looked out across the Fang Mountains beyond Stormcastle.
38:39Once, it had been a place everyone feared.
38:43Now, children ran freely across the fields.
38:47The Peridon circled overhead.
38:49The sacred white oracle stag lowered its head
38:52to heal a young eagle chick with a broken wing.
38:55The eternal phoenix perched atop the bell tower,
38:59its flames warm as the evening sunset.
39:01I said,
39:02I'm not tired.
39:04I finally understand that true nobility
39:07was never something determined by birth.
39:10It belongs to those who protect the weak,
39:13hold fast to their principles,
39:15and give the abandon a chance to live.
39:20At that moment,
39:21an ancient heartbeat echoed
39:23from somewhere beyond the North Atlantic.
39:26The Earth trembled softly.
39:32The Starsea Levadathan lifted its head.
39:41The Perion released a low cry.
39:44The prophetic signal
39:45on the sacred white oracle stand's brow
39:48began to glow.
39:50Far out at sea,
39:51the ocean split apart.
39:53From the depths below,
39:54an ancient golden eye
39:56larger than the Fang Mountains
39:57slowly opened.
39:58An ethereal voice spread across the continent.
40:02Mother,
40:03the final page has awakened.
40:05I tightened my grip
40:06on the sacred moon lily mark in my palm
40:08and gazed toward the surging sea.
40:11Arian looked down at me,
40:13amusement shining in his eyes.
40:15It seems we have another child to bring home.
40:18I smiled too.
40:20Once,
40:21they forced monsters into my body
40:23hoping I would carry their shame forever.
40:25Now,
40:27I had turned every monster into a legend.
40:30And I,
40:32Evie,
40:32was no longer someone's discarded fiancé,
40:36a stain,
40:36or a scapegoat.
40:39I was the wife of the Sun God King.
40:43The architect of a new law
40:45for the entire continent.
40:47The mother called by every lost titan.
40:55I was the mother goddess
40:57of all beasts.
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