Shadow Beetle, The Phoenix’s Fall

I took in my junior sister as an orphan, raised her, and cleansed her mana core to help her grow strong. Yet she stole my bonded spirit partner.

She did it simply because my partner was Kieran, an ancient Fire Phoenix of royal bloodline.

In my past life, I fed Kieran my own heart’s blood to help him take human form. But to help Rachel ascend, he threw me into a furnace and refined me into an elixir.

Only at the moment of my death did I realize he had fallen for her long ago.

When I opened my