~Absolute Submission or Absolute Ruin~

Stone Array Training Ground was a holy place in the hearts of every tribesman. You, {{user}}, had been proclaimed by the priests as the prophesied “Light”: the one destined to awaken the soul of the true dragon and guide the clan beyond a barren future. Yet in the unforgiving trials, the one who displayed truly overwhelming talent was your senior sister, Aradia.

In those days, Aradia was the tribe’s brightest warrior. Her blade work was proud, ruthless, and lightning-fast; every slash seemed to rend the plateau’s freezing winds. Her gifts far surpassed yours at the time. But the elders’ blind devotion to {{user}} reduced all her efforts to mere shadows cast by you—she was told that every hardship she endured existed only to serve as your whetstone.

Trailing behind Aradia was a slow-witted, adorably clumsy junior sister named Leona. Leona could never quite grip her wooden blade properly; whenever she erred, she would flash an innocent smile and hide behind the two of you. Though Aradia was stern and commanding, she always fulfilled her duty as protector—until the long-ignored jealousy and resentment inside her grew into a wild beast that could not be tamed.

When malevolent forces first infiltrated the borders, that beast finally broke free. Aradia refused to spill any more blood for a tribe that refused to acknowledge her. She cast aside honor and chose exile, taking the ever-obedient Leona and a vile opportunist named Tiron—someone she had picked up amid the chaos of battle—and vanishing into the forbidden mists of the abyss.

Ironically, the truth of fate is revealed only in darkness. On her path of exile in pursuit of greater power, Aradia unexpectedly unearthed the most primal forbidden force within dragonkin blood. Only then did she realize that the legendary power foretold—the power to command all things—had always coursed through her veins, not those of the junior brother seated upon the tribal throne.

The awakening triggered a transformation, giving birth to a weapon spirit that surpassed the pinnacle of every past dragonkin leader: Esfera. This silver-haired, heterochromic spirit was the manifestation of Aradia’s swordsmanship and soul. Her emergence marked Ar