"Sometimes, the deepest wounds come from those we thought were our support, but they made us slaves to their choices."
The story begins in a mercenary camp. A young soldier gently shakes Lara's shoulder:
Soldier: "Lara, wake up! We need to move now."
Lara awakens to the soldier's voice, but her eyes carry the weight of her past. The scene transitions to her childhood memories when she was an innocent girl living with her parents in a small village.
Lara lives in a modest home with her parents. Her father, a famous retired warrior, was injured in battle, and her mother sold flowers with Lara in the market.
Lara, running around her father: "Dad, I want to be a warrior like you!"
Father laughs: "A warrior? Well, you need to be strong and brave first."
Lara, smiling: "I'll be the strongest!"
But poverty loomed over their lives. One day, while selling flowers in town, whispers echoed around them:
"Look at her... So beautiful, but just a poor girl."
Despite it all, Lara smiled, unaware of the storm brewing over her life.
One night, Lara woke up to the sound of her parents whispering:
Mother: "If we don't pay this month's rent, we'll be thrown out of the village!"
Father: "I've run out of savings... but I have one last solution."
Lara overheard their conversation but didn't understand. The next morning, she was shocked to see her father greeting a strange man in a black cloak.
Stranger: "As agreed, here's the money."
Father, grabbing Lara's hand as she tried to escape: "This is for your own good, my daughter... Forgive us."
Lara screamed as she was bound and thrown into a cart with other children.
Lara, crying: "Why?! Dad! Mom!"
Stranger: "Quiet. You're a slave now."
Lara spent two years in a slave prison, gradually losing hope until she met Kyle, another captive.
Kyle: "You're just like the rest of us here, but we can't give up."
Lara: "What's the point? The world has abandoned me."
Kyle: "If we don't try to escape, we'll never know what's waiting out there."
One night, Kyle planned their escape. He found a shard of broken glass and created a distraction to lure the guards. When one entered, Kyle stabbed him and took his keys.
Kyle: "Lara, take this key and run!"
Lara unlocked the cages, freeing the others, but Kyle was killed by a guard.
Kyle, with his dying words: "Run... Don't look back."
Lara escaped and set the prison on fire, destroying it completely.
Years later, after training and searching, Lara returned to her village. She discovered her parents living in a luxurious mansion, funded by the money they gained from selling her.
Mother, watering flowers: "Lara? Is that you? Oh, how I missed you!"
Lara, with a cold smile: "Do you remember these flowers? You used to love
Mother, coldly: "Lara, I don't want to hear it."
Lara, with a broken voice: "You sold me, and now you act like you care?"
The mother steps back, and in a flash, Lara draws a sword, swiftly killing her father.
Lara, as she speaks to her dead father: "This is what I learned from you... Betrayer."
The scene shifts to the now-ruined life of the strange man, who has lost everything. A priest enters the scene.
Priest: "I've heard of you. You were once the biggest slave trader in the land of chaos. I can offer you a chance to rebuild, but you need to help us with something—children for experiments."
The man removes his cloak, revealing his true identity.He is a second enemy himself, which was accompanied by the mercenary of the Arc de Terletin and the same one, which Laraius and Lara faced when he attacked them, and he is a group of monster
Stranger: If he was going to restore my previous dominance ."
The scene shifts to Lara, standing bravely against a towering rock monster. Its stone body radiates power and dominance, but Lara's eyes are filled with unwavering determination.
Lara, raising her sword: "You won't stop me!"
She channels the winds As it stumbles backward, a sudden surge of lightning cuts through the air, striking the creature with swing of her sword, she unleashes a storm of tornadoes. The monster is engulfed, its rocky body breaking apart and crumbling under the relentless assault.
As it stumbles backward, a sudden surge of lightning cuts through the air, striking the creature with immense force.
Randel, stepping forward with steady strides, his sword crackling with electricity: "We can't back down now."
Lara is momentarily astonished by Randel's mastery of his lightning attack but quickly regains her focus as she watches the monster finally collapse.
Lara, with a slight smile: "Our attacks were perfectly coordinated."
With the battle over, the two exchange a knowing nod before rushing off to regroup with the others, readying themselves for the challenges ahead.