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Bargain Infernal Episode 57: The Eye
The roar that burst from the abyss was not just sound. It was a force one that rippled through reality itself, warping the air, shattering glass in the buildings around them, and sending Alex and Mara stumbling backward.Alex clenched his jaw against the pain still lancing through his skull, his fingers digging into the hilt of his sword like a lifeline. The visions had faded, but the lingering weight of what he had seen clung to him like a curse.The city was collapsing.Not in that manner of dilapidated structure that crumbles with time but in a more unnatural, eerie way. Streets twisted, darkness deepened even further, and shadows that began to bleed into the abyss extended like a pulsing infection swallowing everything in sight.And a thousand golden eyes stared at him from the abysmal reaches.Come home, child of the fallen.The words caressed his thoughts once more. Chilling shivers ran from his spine.No.He gritted his teeth and forced the voice out. He wouldn't let it control
Bargain Infernal Episode 58: Descent Into Darkness
Tendrils of shadow wrapped themselves around Alex's limbs like living chains, pulling tighter with every desperate struggle. His body was being dragged toward the abyss, toward the gaping maw of darkness that pulsed like a living entity, whispering his name in a voice that made his soul shudder.He dug his fingers into the crumbling concrete beneath him, his nails scraping against the debris, but it was futile. The abyss wanted him. The Harbinger had claimed him.And worst of all some part of him felt like it had always been meant to happen."No no, I won't!" he gritted out, every muscle in his body straining against the pull.The abyss responded.A shockwave of raw, eldritch power erupted from its depths, throwing splintering cracks through the ground. Buildings that barely remained standing crashed down, their ruins tumbling into the void. The air twisted, warping as if reality itself was unraveling at its seams.And the Harbinger? It stood at the edge of the abyss, regarding him th
Bargain Infernal Episode 59: The Harbinger’s Words
Darkness.It wasn't just around him it was inside him, crawling into his lungs, sinking into his veins like an illness. The deeper Alex fell, the more he felt his body come unraveling. His limbs felt weightless, his mind fogged, and his very soul seemed to flicker, like a candle struggling against an unseen wind.He didn't know if he was still falling or if he had already hit the bottom.Maybe there was no bottom.Maybe the abyss had always been inside him, waiting for him to return.No.His fingers curled into fists, his breath ragged. The Harbinger's words echoed in his mind "You are mine now, Alex."The hell he was.His body fought it at first, heavy, slugging with inertia, forcing itself to shift. He bit down on gritted teeth, reaching for what, he could not tell. There was no ground, no walls, no sky. Nothing at all, just dark, endless formlessness.And something shifted.Whispering-quiet but utterly clear, darkness whispered."You fight in futility."That was not the Harbinger's
Bargain Infernal Episode 60: The Abyss Hungers
The darkness was infinite, crushing.Alex continued to fall.The throne was beneath him, its jagged edges rising from the void like the bones of some ancient beast. The whispering voices had grown louder, insidious, wrapping around his mind like chains."Sit upon the throne, and all shall be yours."He gritted his teeth, fighting against the pull. Every instinct screamed at him do not sit.But the throne wasn't waiting on him. It called, its presence curling around his limbs like an invisible force.And then.A hand grabbed his wrist.A sharp pull yanked him to one side, ripping him from the free fall. He gasped as his body jerked violently and his momentum crashed into a solid form."Mara?!"She held onto him tight, her fingers digging into his arm with desperation.You think I'd let you fall alone?"She snapped, her voice shaking.Alex barely had time to process what was happening before the abyss reacted.The shadows roared.The throne below them trembled, and the darkness twisted i
Bargain Infernal Episode 61: The Abyss Within
Darkness still clung to Alex's skin.The earth beneath him felt too solid too real after the weightless void of the abyss. He staggered, his breath coming in sharp gasps, his fingers still coated in shifting black tendrils that pulsed with unnatural energy.Something inside him had changed.No something inside him had awakened.Mara eyed him warily, holding her broken spear in a defensive stance. Her eyes, however those sharp, storm-gray eyes held something else. Not just fear.Doubt."Alex," she said cautiously. "What happened back there?"Alex clenched his fists. The abyss was still inside him, lurking beneath his skin like a parasite. He could feel it twisting through his veins, coiling around his soul. His own reflection had warned him.Or maybe it had taunted him."I don't know," he admitted, voice hoarse.Mara took a slow step forward. "Then why do your eyes look like that?"Alex stiffened. He hadn't dared to look again. He didn't need to. He could feel the change. The way his v
Bargain Infernal Episode 62: Baptism in Blood
Alex's breath caught.The voice boomed through the empty valley, each syllable sinking into his bones like a curse. The weight of it was crushing, filling the air with an unyielding sense of inevitability."Welcome home, my son."No.No, that couldn't be.The King of the Abyss wasn't just a myth-he was a nightmare. A being of pure, unrelenting destruction. And yet, the voice resonating from the fortress wasn't just familiar.It was part of him.Mara seized his wrist, her fingers like steel. "Tell me I didn't just hear that."Alex couldn't answer. His body felt frozen, his blood thick with something ancient and wrong.Then, the fortress moved.The gates that loomed before them trembled, shifting like the ribs of some colossal beast. The very air pulsed with malevolent energy, the sky above roiling with crimson lightning.And out of the very foundations of the fortress, figures emerged.Hundreds.Tortured parodies of humanity, their silhouettes stuck to twisted, elongated limbs. Some wi
Bargain Infernal Episode 63: The Abyss Calls
The earth shook beneath Alex's feet.Before him loomed the huge demon, born from the abyss itself, its body writhing with a thousand tendrils of shadow and bone. A monstrosity, born from nightmares, standing as a grotesque monument to the darkness that Alex had striven so hard to resist.Yet, as the void awakened inside him, whispering in a voice that sounded far too well known, he knew one thing for sure.This was not just another fight.This was a trial.His so-called dad stood at the castle gates, his form a choking absence of power. The bone mask hid his visage, but Alex could feel his eyes, heavy with anticipation."Show me, my son. Show me what you really are.The demon roared, its voice splitting the heavens, a guttural scream that sent tremors through the valley. The very air around it burned, reality itself warping under its presence.Then it moved.Alex barely had time to react.The demon's claw jagged, filled with abyssal runes descended with catastrophic force. Ground shoo
Bargain Infernal Episode 64: Throne of the Abyss
The air stank of blood, fire, and rot.Alex froze, his body shuddering under the weight of the chasm. The pit below him writhed like a living thing, and from its depths something monstrous began to stir a shadow too large, too evil to understand.His father's masked figure loomed beside him, a twisted sense of amusement in his stance."Do you feel it now, Alex?" the man whispered. "The call of your true home?"Alex clenched his fists. His breath was ragged, his mind fraying at the edges. The abyss inside him howled, eager to consume, to unleash.But he wouldn't let it.Not yet.The ground beneath them quaked violently.Then.The sky split open.From above, black lightning streaked down like spears, impaling the already broken landscape. The chasm below expanded, and they emerged.The Abyssal Legion.Hundreds no, thousands of grotesque, armored figures crawled out of the darkness. Their bodies were jagged and contorted, forged from bone, shadow, and suffering. Their eyes glowed crimson
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Episode 224: One Final Strike
The world fractured.At the moment the boy lunged towards him, his sword clashing against the Hunter’s blade of shadow-steel, reality shattered like glass.His feet were no longer standing on solid ground.The battlefield the stars, the ruined earth pulsed, tremblied, shifting like an unënded painting.For one terrifying second He felt himself being torn in two.Not by a blade.Not by the Abyss.By time itself.He staggered back, gasping, his vision going double, reality fracturing into two separate lines of incident at once.One he stood here, fighting, existing.In the other he had never been born.Never consumed mermaid flesh.Never imagined, never suffered, never fought.Just gone."This is the correction."The Hunter’s voice remained steady, uemotional."Your existence is an error."Kaiza bared his teeth, pushing forward, screwing his sword back alight."You talk too much."And then he attacked again.The Impossible DuelThis time he moved faster.He could still taste the Abyss
Episode 223: The Last Throne
It was no longer their place of battle.The sunless sky was now a filthy mirror of a world that had perished before history.”Under Ethan and Asha’s feet, the ground shook, not with ruination but with something trying to rewrite existence itself.And the whole thing revolves aroundThe light wasn’t from this world, and now it burned behind their eyes, finally exposed by the broken perishable mask.They weren’t human.They weren’t divine.They’d been something before all of those things.And the closer they got, just their walking warped the air next to them.“You have walked too far, Hollow King.”“You’ve shattered too many chains.“And now you will see what should have been forgotten.”Ethan’s hands made fists.Asha inhaled slowly and deeply.They had no time to think.Because the First King moved.And the final battle began.Before Ethan even had the time to react, he found the First King in front of him.Their move defied space itself—not teleportation, not speed, but the here and
Episode 222: The Ones Who Devour
The sky was breaking.Helena became the epicenter of the battle that should have never been.The Firstborn were no more, their sacred monarchy rent asunder, their celestial kingdom fallen to ruin.But the universe had no love for vacant thrones.And now.It had been supplanted by something else.Reality tore, the sky splitting open like a wound that wouldn’t heal.Out from the void, they came.Not Hollowed.Not firstborn.Something else.Older than war itself, something.They did not have names.They did not have faces.They were churning, writhing aspects of the consummate void, their nacreous flesh contorting into a thousand forms at once—humanoid, monstrous, holy, forgotten.And when they spoke.It wasn’t with voices.It was with thoughts that did not belong to Helena, curling into her thoughts, unwinding her like leaves of an old book."You do not belong here."Helena’s entire body tensed.The Hollow King did not move.The Old One merely watched.Silver fire sizzled along the edge
Episode 221: The Thing That Should Not Wake
The Silence Before the EndThe battlefield was quiet.Too quiet.Helena found herself in the ruins of a war that had rewritten history. The Firstborn's God-King was vanished, their form crushed into void, their heavenly horde blown away like dust.The Hollowed had won.And yet.The heir was wrong.Heavy. Tainted.Like something was waiting.“Yup,” Cain gasped, running a bloody hand through his hair, his silver eyes showing some signs of uneasiness. “Please tell me it’s not just me that feels this.”Helena gripped her throbbing fingers, the black-fire dagger still buzzing in her hand. "You’re not."The Hollow King hadn’t budged.They froze there, their shape like a void, their head cocked slightly, listening.Helena stepped forward slowly, the ground crackling beneath her boots. The Firstborn were disappearing, their godly light blinking out like red stars in the firmament.They had lost.So why did it seem like something worse had just begun?Then.The world shifted.The Veil Splits O
Episode 220: The Forsaken vs. the Divine
Helena did not kneel.Not to kings.Not to gods.Not to the Firstborn, who had cut history to shape and made it fit.She had stood against death.She had stood against fate.And she would stand now.Even as the God-King of the Firstborn loomed before her, his celestial fire coiling in the air like an executioner’s blade.As the burden of their command bore down upon reality itself, compelling everything to bend.Helena stood tall.Her dagger blazed with black flames, oscillating between the Hollow King’s strength and something more ancient.Something that was hers and hers alone.The battlefield was silent.Even the Hollow hesitated.Because no one had ever disobeyed the Firstborn’s command and survived.Until now.The God-King’s expression did not change.They took a slow step forward, their silver eyes calm and infinite, burning with cold.“Then I will break you.”The world shattered.A void pulled inward, the air itself ripping apart as the God-King began his assault, faster than l
Episode 219: The Forsaken Queen
Helena felt everything.The Hollow King thrummed through her as she surged forward, a scintillation of wicked pleasure that burnt in her blood like a fire that would never run soft. Not only did it fill her, it transformed her.No longer was she Helena, the fighter who had resisted destiny.She was something more.Something that never was meant to exist.And as she stood at the very center of the battlefield, surrounded as she was by another ruin crumbling around her, one of a war older than time itself, she understood.The Firstborn knew it, too.They had expected a rebel.They had expected resistance.But they hadn’t expected this.They had not believed she would survive the Hollow King’s might.And they did not expect her to turn it against them.”His silver eyes, previously flooded with naught but icy apathy, now sparkled with another emotion.Fear.And Helena?Helena smiled.Then she attacked.Her movements were like a storm, her new blade slashing through the Firstborn’s ranks.
Episode 218: The Moment When the World Picked a Side
The battlefield froze.Helena’s voice still rang in the ruins, suspended in the air like a blade poised to fall."I will fight for the truth."And just like that.She had chosen a side.The Hollow King turned its void-like eyes to her, unreadable.Cain gaped, his breath ragged, his silver eyes bouncing between disbelief and something else. Something closer to fear.The Firstborn did not speak.They didn’t scream in rage or throw accusations of betrayal.Instead.They smiled.And Helena learned something a little too late.She had walked into a war older than she could understand.And each side had been waiting for her to make a choice.Now.There was no turning back.The Gods Strike FirstThe Firstborn moved first.Helena didn’t have time to react before the sky itself lit on fire.The clouds parted, hurling javelins of heavenly fire onto the battlefield. The Hollowed howled, their flesh caught alight, their bodies liquidizing beneath the assault.The pallor of the air cracked apart b
Episode 217: The Gods Must Bleed
A Sky That ShattersThe heavens collapsed.The sky literally ripped apart, opening like a wound in reality itself, and Helena hardly had time to scream. The battlefield below was engulfed in golden fire and infinite darkness, as though the universe itself was tearing in two.The Firstborn were the falling stars, their weapons blazing with heavenly fire, their silver eyes lit with righteous fury. The Hollowed howled back, their broken voices rising like a war hymn, thair void-forged blades craving vengeance.This wasn’t a battle.This was annihilation.Helena moved.She ducked, avoiding a sweep of a Firstborn warrior that cut through the air where her head had only seconds before been. The heat of their blade seared against her skin, too near, too quick.But she was faster.She spun, her dagger slicing through their divine armor, and, for the first time, she heard the sound she never thought she’d hear.A firstborn screamed.Helena’s breath hitched.She could kill them.And if she coul
Episode 216: The Ah Which Ends Worlds
A Throne of Lies, A War of TruthHelena’s breath was quick and brittle, her heart pounding against her rib cage.The Hollow King knelt before her.Not as an enemy.Not as a monster.But as a warrior awaiting a response.The gods had walked the earth before her, and the earth had been their altar. They stood behind their King, all soulless eyes on her, waiting for her to make a choice.And in the distance.Something else was coming.Something worse.Cain moaned next her, spitting blood from his mouth. “Well,” he muttered, “this complicated fast.”Helena barely heard him.Because she wasn’t looking at Cain.The throne of the Hollowed, upthrust from the ruins, split reality like a jagged wound.It was waiting for her.And deep inside, she knew.If she did that, if she chose the Hollowed, there could be no undoing it.She would not only be battling the Firstborn.She would be waging war on the very gods themselves.And it was a war no one had ever won.The Hollow King’s voice was gentle,
