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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
Bargain Infernal Episode 65: The Abyssal Coronation
The battlefield lay in ruin.Scorched earth. The smell of blood and sulfur heavy in the air. The twisted remains of demons and abyssal creatures scattered like discarded puppets. The Legion knelt, heads bowed before their new master.Alex stood among the carnage, unmoving.His body pulsed with energy the abyss singing in his veins. His hands ran black with ichor, the last remains of the Abyssal King's lifeblood. His once-golden eyes, now voids without bottoms, flickered with something unnatural.Power.Dominion.Something inside of him had finally broken free.And there was no going back.His father stood beside him, a knowing smirk playing on his lips. "Do you feel it now, my son? The weight of your throne?"Alex did not respond. His eyes ran over the kneeled horde of abyssal warriors. Thousands of them. Creatures of shadow, of nightmare, of pure malice. They had once served the Abyssal King without question.But now.They were his.A strange, almost sickening satisfaction curled in
Bargain Infernal Episode 66: The Harbinger’s Reckoning
The chasm trembled.Over the battlefield a hush came, so heavy it absorbed lingering war echoes into its depth. The abyssals, kneeling with submission, rose now with nervous movements, those unnatural bodies now quivering in the presence carried by their approaches.The Herald of Oblivion was near.Alex felt it before he saw it: a creeping void in the fabric of reality, a presence that did not step into existence but devoured everything around it. Shadows recoiled from its form, tendrils of darkness slithering away as if terrified of what walked among them.It was out of the ruinous mist that the figure appeared, wearing armor as dark as a dying star, rimmed with veins of crimson fire. Its helm did not carry a face but instead an abyssal void where eyes should be, swirling with endless hunger. With every step, it broke the ground; fissures of molten death spread from the chasm below.Alex's father, the one who had planned his downfall, the one who had breathed power into his veins, st
Bargain Infernal Episode 67: Rise of the Forsaken
Darkness consumed everything about him.No sound, no shape, no timing existed except the open emptiness stretching in all directions. Alex Mercer floated in space. His body weighed nothing, and his soul hovered and flickered like a dying ember.He should be dead.The Harbinger's blade had cut through his very core, severing the power that bound him to the Abyss. He had felt himself unravel, felt the tendrils of oblivion consume him. And yet.He was still here.A whisper slid through the void."You are not yet finished."Alex's eyes snapped open if he even had eyes anymore. He saw nothing but shifting blackness, writhing tendrils of void energy coiling around him like serpents.Then the pain hit.It was not physical but something far worse. It clawed at his very essence, tearing apart the fabric of his being and stitching it back together with something darker, something ancient. He screamed, but no sound came forth. The abyss was remaking him, reshaping him into something beyond morta
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Episode 200: The Day of Redemption
The earth had been rent asunder. The heavens had cracked open. But now, in the aftermath of the battle, there was a stillness. A calm that seemed almost unnatural, as though the world itself had been holding its breath, waiting for this moment.Helena stood alone at the edge of the ruins, her hand pressed to the cool stone of what had once been a great wall, now reduced to rubble. Her fingers traced the cracks, as if seeking some sign that the world she once knew was still there, beneath the destruction. She closed her eyes, taking a slow, deep breath, and the weight of everything they had lost pressed down on her chest.She thought of the faces they had seen fall, the countless souls who had given their lives to this war. Friends. Strangers. Heroes. She thought of the world that had been swallowed by darkness, of the innocence that had been torn away. The battle had taken everything. And yet…A whisper of wind brushed her cheek, and for the first time in what felt like forever, she s
Episode 199: Final Descent
The fight had been on for hours, but Alex and Helena were not done. They were drained of their last drops of energy; every punch was a swat of finishing blows. The sky above was split apart by the crash of calamity, the earth below their feet cracked and blood-soaked, the battleground. They were a relentless force of abyssal creatures, clawing their way up from the very depths of hell itself. And above them, the dark creature they had been battling the twisted, monstrous being of molten rock and shadow—did not back down.Alex's eyes were wild with fury, his entire being charged with the hellfire he had summoned. Every breath burned like the underworld's flames. His body had become a vessel of destruction, and he was fighting this battle for what seemed like a lifetime. It was not just the creature in front of him but the darkness within himself, the abyssal power that threatened to consume him with every passing moment.Helena fought at his side, her blade slicing through dark creatur
Episode 198: The Horizon
The light had changed the battle scene, returning what was lost. The earth cracks had closed, and the lifeless land was now dotted with the first green shoots. Yet with all this peace, Alex couldn't shake the unease growing in his chest. The light was pure, potent, and alive, and it had pushed the void back. However, with its presence came something darker, something ancient, which had awakened from its slumber. The battle was far from over.As the warmth of the sphere ebbed away, the air shifted around them. The air, once still and inert, had become dense and heavy; it seemed almost as though it were waiting to break into the daylight, out of the shadows. There was a humming, pulsating vibration through the ground that lay in the pit of Alex's stomach. Like a heartbeat almost, but life's not this: that was deeper, much, much older.Alex: (on point, grave) "It's coming now."Helena: (eyes scanning the horizon) “What is it? The darkness… It’s not gone, is it?”Alex: (tightening his gri
Episode 197: The Spark of Hope
The light ahead flickered like a dying ember, casting a pale glow over the shattered landscape. It was faint, but there was a small, stubborn defiance against the darkness that had nearly consumed the world. Alex and Helena moved toward it, their footsteps echoing in the hollow silence left behind by the chaos.The air was still, heavy with the remnants of the abyss. Each breath felt weighted, as though even the atmosphere had been scarred by what had passed. The ground beneath them was cracked and barren, but there was something about the way the light shone through the haze that made Alex believe just for a moment that there was still something worth saving.Helena: (quietly, observing) "It feels like, like everything is waiting. Like the world is holding its breath."Alex: (gravelly, focused) "It’s not over yet. Not by a long shot."They pressed on, the journey heavy with the weight of the battle they had just fought. The path was uncertain, littered with debris, but Alex’s eyes we
Episode 196: Aftermath
The explosion had stopped. The sound was deafeningly silent. Helena's ground crumbled as the remnants of the abyss dissipated, but it wasn't a relief. There was no victory. Just emptiness that engulfed her.Helena: (whispering frantically) "Alex. Alex, where are you?"She scanned the devastation around her, her heart pounding in her chest. The rift was gone, its tendrils retracting into the ground like the remnants of some nightmarish creature. The air was still thick with the lingering residue of darkness, and yet, there was no sign of Alex.The sky above them, once twisted with shadow, was now eerily calm, the storm having passed. But this calm felt wrong like the world was holding its breath, waiting for something more.Helena: (shaking, speaking to herself) "He has to be here. He can’t be. gone."She ran through the rubble, calling out his name, but only the wind answered. Her hand tightened around the hilt of her blade, the weight of the weapon a hollow comfort in her grasp. She
Episode 195: The Final Hour
The air stank of smoke and rot, heavy with an acrid flavor. What used to be a city lay strewn before Alex and Helena as if it were a graveyard: buildings shattered, broken, rising like tombstones in the deserted land, all skeletal and speaking of the desperate fight they went through. Now, the world felt colder—as if the air had been hollowed out.Helena: (soft, grim) "How much longer can this go on, Alex?"Alex: (determined) "As long as it takes. The abyss isn’t done with us yet. And we won’t stop until it is."They had just finished dealing with the last of the creature's tendrils. The rift had closed, but there was no peace. The storm had calmed, but the tension was palpable, as if the calm before the storm held something far worse yet to come. It was clear now: the abyss had a plan. It wasn’t merely an enemy to be defeated. It was a force, a presence, an ancient evil that had only begun to reveal its true form.Helena: (with a sigh) "This place. It's like nothing is real anymore.
Episode 194: Descent Into Madness
The world had become a battleground. The city lay in ruins behind them, a monument to the chaos that had overtaken their lives. Alex and Helena, standing amidst the devastation, could feel the weight of what they had just accomplished. The creature, an embodiment of the abyss, was gone, but its shadow still lingered in the air. The ground was cracked, the sky darkened, and the very fabric of reality seemed to pulse in unnatural rhythms.Helena: (low, somber) "What are we even fighting for now? This place. It's a graveyard."Alex: (gritting his teeth) "We're fighting for the world that's left. We don't stop until it's all gone, until it's finished."Alex's voice was heavy with the weight of their struggle, hours of fighting, endless battles, and the constant, gnawing pressure of the abyss clawing at his mind. They had come so far, yet there was still so much to do. The world, what was left of it, was a fractured reflection of its former self. And Alex knew that, deep down, the abyss wa
Episode 193: The Reaper’s Reckoning
The remnants of the city loomed behind them, twisted steel and concrete jutting out of the ground like skeletal remains. The air still smelled of charred flesh, burnt remnants of a world that had nearly been consumed. Alex and Helena stood in the shadow of the destruction, their faces grim as they stared into the horizon, where the first signs of the coming storm appeared dark clouds swirling ominously in the distance.Alex: (gritting his teeth) “I thought we had more time. I thought we could end this.”Helena: (softly) “We can still try. But whatever we’re facing, it’s not just demons or the abyss anymore. We’re up against something older, something more dangerous than we can even comprehend.”The ground beneath them trembled ever so slightly, sending a shiver down Alex’s spine. He could feel it the pull of the abyss, as if it had sensed their uncertainty. The darkness was alive. It responded to their fears, feeding on it, growing stronger.Alex glanced at Helena, her sword still gri
Episode 192: The Storm of Violence
The air was heavy with the acrid scent of burnt flesh and smoke, and hellfire still hung faintly in the air. Alex and Helena stood together amidst the ruins of what had once been a city. The battle was over, but its aftermath clung to every corner: destruction, chaos, and the silence that follows the storm of violence.Their breaths were heavy, the adrenaline of the fight still coursing through their veins. Helena wiped the blood from her face, her sword still in hand, its edge now darkened with the stain of the battle. Alex could feel the weight of the abyssal energy within him, like a constant hum in the back of his mind, a reminder that the war was far from over.He looked over at Helena. Her eyes, which had been bright with determination, were dulled now with fatigue. She was standing yet still fighting, but Alex could see the cost of the fight, endless as it was. To both of them.Alex: (softly) "We did it… but it's not over, is it?"Helena: (shaking her head) "No. It's only just
