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Bargain Infernal Episode 79: Darkness
The fall was endless. Darkness swallowed Alex Mercer and Helena whole as they plummeted through the gaping maw of the abyss. Wind howled past them like the tortured wails of the damned, clawing at their bodies as if eager to rip them apart before they even hit the bottom. Shadows curled around Alex's limbs, their whispers slithering into his mind, tempting him with power, with release, with the promise that he could be more than Lucifer's pawn if only he surrendered.But Alex had never been one to surrender.With a snarl, he opened wide the yawning abyss of his wings, the jagged obsidian edges slashing through the suffocating void. Helena tumbled through the void, her fingers barely reaching him. Their hands locked in a desperate grip just as the abyss spat them out into a new nightmare.They ran into a denuded wasteland of burnt rock and rivers of molten earth. The hit sent shock through the earth. Dust and hot embers spat into the sour air heavy with sulfur. Alex groaned his way to
Bargain Infernal Episode 80: The Devil’s Awakening
Darkness crept into Alex's veins like poison, cold and corrosive. The whisper in his mind slid through his thoughts, coiling tighter with each passing second.You are mine now.His fingers dug into the scorched earth as he fought against the force crawling through his soul, but the struggle was futile. A searing heat ignited within him not the warmth of hellfire, but something more insidious, more ancient. Something that did not belong to him.Lucifer was before him, eyes gold glinting in mirth. "Feeling it now, aren't you?" he breathed softly, the words laced with silk, dripping poison. "The power, the hunger… the start of what you're going to become."Helena lurched upright; the streaks of blood across her face glistened as her eyes darted wide in fright. "Alex, fight it!" she yelled at the top of her voice, quivering yet steady. "Don't let him have you!Alex raised his eyes to her, but something in his gaze had shifted. His pupils had become slits, with irises lighting from within
Bargain Infernal Episode 81: Wrath Unleashed
The world around Alex Mercer collapsed into nothingness. A cold, merciless void swallowed the battlefield, leaving only the deafening echo of the snap that had shattered his soul.Helena lay motionless at his feet, her lifeless eyes frozen in time, her body discarded like a broken doll. Her presence, her fire, her unwavering resolve all snuffed out in an instant. A choked breath rasped from Alex’s lips, but he wasn’t breathing. He was drowning in something far deeper than air, something that smothered reason and replaced it with raw, unrelenting rage.Lucifer stood over her, golden eyes gleaming with amusement. He tilted his head, watching Alex closely, waiting for the inevitable break. “There it is,” he murmured. “The moment you finally understand.”Alex’s fingers curled into fists. Shadows pulsed violently around him, writhing and distorting, responding to the overwhelming force of his fury. The abyss within him no longer whispered. It roared, drowning out every thought, every hesit
Bargain Infernal Episode 82: Resurrection of the Damned
A deafening silence surrounded the battlefield. Alex Mercer's breath rasped in his throat, his body shuddering from exhaustion, rage, and something deeper something clawing at his sanity. His fingers dug into the scorched earth as he knelt beside Helena's lifeless body. Except she wasn't lifeless anymore. Her eyes black as the void stared up at him. A twisted, unnatural thing. No warmth, no recognition. Just an abyss staring back at him, something ancient and wrong lurking beneath the surface of the woman he had fought so hard to protect. "Helena?" he whispered, his voice raw, hesitant. She blinked once. Then twice. Her lips parted, but the sound that escaped was not her voice—it was layered, guttural, and inhuman. Alex," the voice slithered, mocking and warped. A cold chill shot through his spine. He tightened his grip on his blade, muscles tensing. The abyss had claimed many, but never had he seen it wear someone like this. Then she moved. Faster than a human, faster than eve
Bargain Infernal Episode 83: The Entity
The sky above writhed with darkness, tendrils twisting like a living thing in the maelstrom of a violent storm. The battlefield was in ruin, cracks splitting the scorched earth beneath Alex Mercer's feet. His chest heaved, blood trickling down his temple, and his sword still slick with the remnants of the darkness purged from Helena. And yet, despite his victory, dread crawled up his spine.Lucifer didn't move. His slow, rhythmic clap echoed through the silence. His golden eyes gleamed beyond amusement with satisfaction and expectation. He tilted his head to one side, a smirk never wavering from his perfect, unearthly face."Bravo, Alex." Lucifer's voice curled through the air, smooth and intoxicating. "That was a show worth watching."Alex tensed his grip on his blade, disregarding the white-hot fire that bolted through his limbs. Helena was alive, but barely. He needed to get her out of here. Now. But Lucifer. Lucifer wasn't done with him."What do you want?" he spat the words out,
Bargain Infernal Episode 84: The Devil’s Gambit
The sky had shattered.A wound in reality itself bled darkness, pouring abyssal horror into the world. It loomed above Alex Mercer, its shape shifting between fire and shadow, a colossus of pure destruction. The air trembled beneath its presence, the ground fracturing beneath its weight.Alex's pulse throbbed through his head. His body screamed for rest, but he couldn't afford weakness. Not now. Not with this thing bearing down on him. He clutched his sword, its blade still shining softly with the embers of his power, and struggled to stand.Lucifer, untouched by the chaos, smiled in an unnatural sort of satisfaction.Beautiful, isn't it?"he thought, gazing up at the entity as though admiring some masterpiece. "A being above demons, above gods. A fragment of the abyss itself." His golden eyes flicked over to Alex, full of laughter. "Come now, hunter dear. Don't you even think that choice is any more yours anymore?Alex ignored him. He focused on Helena, stirring weakly on the ground.
Bargain Infernal Episode 85: The Horror
Darkness coiled around Alex Mercer’s fingers, crawling up his arms like living veins of corruption. His breath came in ragged gasps, his body barely holding itself together after the battle. The battlefield was silent now, the abyssal colossus vanquished, yet something far worse had taken its place.Him.Helena stared at him, her green eyes wide with horror. He could see the way her fingers twitched, hovering between reaching for him and pulling away. The silence stretched between them like a chasm, and for the first time, Alex felt truly alone.Lucifer knelt beside him, one knee pressing into the scorched earth. A slow smile played on the fallen angel’s lips, his golden eyes brimming with satisfaction.I must say, I had my suspicions," Lucifer mused, his head canted to one side. "To see it firsthand, though… Oh, Alex, you truly are a masterpiece.Alex gritted his teeth, trying to shake the whispers clawing at the edges of his mind. The abyss inside him was restless, writhing beneath
Bargain Infernal Episode 86: Abyss Unchained
A crushing weight bore down on Alex Mercer. He wasn't falling he was plunging, dragged into an abyss deeper than anything he had ever known. Darkness devoured him from all sides, suffocating, pressing against his skin like something alive. His mind screamed, but no sound escaped. The last thing he remembered was Helena's outstretched hand, her desperate scream lost in the void as something ancient had seized him. Now, there was only silence. Then a voice. Whispering. Echoing. "You were never meant to belong to him." Alex tried to move, but he had no body. He was thought consciousness suspended in an endless sea of shadow. The abyss was inside him now, twisting through his veins, whispering secrets he didn't want to hear. Visions flickered through the darkness memories twisted and broken. He saw himself, standing at the crossroads of death and damnation, Lucifer's golden gaze locked onto him with amusement. He saw every battle, every kill, every choice that had chipped away at the
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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,
