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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 122: Shattered Horizons
The earth under Ethan shook with the aftershock of the falling rift as it sent his friends and him flying across the battlefield. He was seeing spots, the world spinning around him, but he wouldn't let himself fall. His sword remained clutched in his hand, though its flames were dwindling, their power all but spent. His breath came in ragged gasps, his body screaming from exhaustion, but one thought reverberated in his mind: the war was far from over.The Abyssal creature’s voice still echoed in his ears, its venomous words crawling through his thoughts, threatening to consume him. “You think you’ve won? The darkness you’ve sealed away. It will return with a vengeance. The end is inevitable.”Ethan pulled himself upright against his own body's protest. The battleground lay before him in tatters, with flames yet burning in the far distance and the thrashed remains of the dark creatures strewn about on the ground. Yet in the middle of this chaos was something even worse: the Abyssal cre
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 123: The Return of Darkness
The battlefield was silent. The last echoes of the explosion from the rift had faded, leaving only the heavy, rhythmic pounding of Ethan's heart in his ears. His body trembled from the exertion of the battle, but his grip on his sword remained firm. He knew he couldn't stop yet. Not when they were so close. But the moment of victory had slipped through his fingers like sand in the wind.In the wake of the Sovereign’s defeat, the land seemed to breathe a heavy sigh of relief. The rift that had once consumed the sky was now nothing but a lingering scar, its edges darkened and cracked, but no longer pulsing with malevolent energy. The tension that had gripped the world was gone, but the weight of what had transpired remained.Lysara, still standing strong despite the toll the battle had taken on her, lowered her staff, her golden light flickering. She glanced toward Ethan, her face etched with concern. “Did we? Did we do it? ”Ethan swallowed hard, his eyes fixed on the fading light of t
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 124: The Unyielding Light
The air snapped with tension. The earth heaved beneath Ethan's feet, and the dark tendril that would have engulfed him if left unchecked receded but did not go. It writhed and twisted as if holding its breath until it was again commanded by their dark master. Ravenna was at the heart of it, his eyes bright with malice, his grin growing as he watched Ethan's celestial protectors arrive.The new figures beside Ethan were a ray of light in the suffocating darkness. The celestial knight, now glowing with greater power than before, raised his massive sword high, the light coming from it like a beacon in the night. Beside him, the ghostly wolf growled his agreement, its eyes aflame with a fury matched by Ethan's own. The dragon’s wings beat, sending a gust of wind that parted the shadows, and the other summoned beings, their forms powerful and resolute, stood ready for battle.Ravenna’s laugh echoed across the battlefield, chilling and unrelenting. “So, you think you’ve gained reinforcement
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 125: The Ultimate Battle
The earth still vibrated under his feet, as if in response to the tidal wave of power that had recently ravaged the air. Ethan stood up slowly, wincing at each lurching motion in his battered body, the remains of the rift dissolving around him. His sword, its flame dwindling to the last embers of the Phoenix's fire, felt heavier than ever. His breathing was heavy, and his mind wandered as he tried to concentrate. He had done it he had cut the bond connecting Ravenna to the darkness, but the heaviness of foreboding did not lift. The fight was far from over.Lysara and the celestial knight were the first to recover, each one rising with surprising agility despite the ferocity of the blast. The knight, whose celestial armor now gleamed with golden light, turned his gaze to the horizon, his expression unreadable.The wolf, eyes flashing like twin orbs of fire, was the last to rise, its fur still bristling with the aftermath of the energy storm. It growled low in its throat, warning of som
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 126: The Broken Veil
As Ethan rose to his feet, he was greeted by the stillness of the battlefield. The heat had begun to dissipate from the Phoenix flame, though the fire was gone. His sword the blade emitting a thousand suns' glory was now as weak as a dying candle. His legs were wobbly, and his vision was blurry. The weight of the battle had drained him his reserves were low. He could feel the link to his summoned companions weakening, but it wasn't over yet. Not while Ravenna was still alive.But as he tried to steady himself, something strange happened. The ground beneath him began to shake, and a cold crept into his bones, colder than anything he had ever felt before. His breath hitched. Something was off. Something was coming.From the dissipating smoke, an obscure silhouette had emerged, eerily moving through the air. Neither Ravenna nor one of his monstrous creatures. Something. someone else. A figure was attired in obsidian armor, with his features shrouded by darkness that seemed to writhe upon
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 127: The Broken Horizon
The world was holding its breath. Ethan's blade, consumed by Phoenix flames, hummed with an intense power that seemed to rattle the air itself. But as he stood there, his body quivering, the figure before him only seemed to grow stronger. Shadows swirled like a vortex, stretching across the ruined battlefield. The oppressive energy surged, bending reality itself.Lysara's barrier crackled under the pressure, flickering like a dying star. The celestial knight, once steady in his stance, was beginning to lose his grip on the shadows surrounding them. Even the ghostly wolf seemed uneasy, its fur bristling, eyes narrowed, as if sensing the enormity of the enemy they now faced.The figure now a towering dark presence, its obsidian armor swirling with an unnatural energy looked at Ethan with cold, unblinking eyes. "You think you can win?" the voice slithered, its power thick with malice. "Your light is nothing against the endless void. I am the end of all things. Your journey ends here.Eth
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 128: The Infernal Rebirth
The battlefield had become a war-torn wasteland, the remnants of once-proud structures now nothing more than charred fragments and scorched earth. The air was thick with smoke, crackling with dark energy, and beneath it all, the very foundation of the world trembled. Ethan could feel it, the power of the Phoenix flame raging within him, yet it seemed so small against the tidal wave of darkness sweeping over them.The dark figure, towering in its obsidian armor, stood at the heart of the chaos, its eyes glowing with a malevolent hunger. The power it wielded was not of this world it was the void itself, an ancient force that sought only destruction.“You think your pitiful flame can save you?” The voice was cold, mocking, as the figure lifted its hand. The shadows writhed, coiling around it like a serpent hungry for its prey. “The world is already mine. All that remains is to finish what I’ve started.”Ethan’s chest burned with the weight of the power within him, his breath shallow, his
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 129: The Abyssal Reckoning
The earth shook beneath Ethan's feet as the monstrous figure rose from the ashes of the previous battle. Its form was a nightmare made flesh, a colossal being of swirling shadows and endless void. Its eyes burned like twin suns of destruction, and its very presence seemed to suck the light from the world. Every inch of the battlefield seemed to fall silent when it emerged, as if the universe itself was taking a sharp breath in.Ethan’s heart raced, his body still aching from the previous fight. The Phoenix flame that had once surged within him now flickered weakly, struggling to hold its ground against the overwhelming dark power before him. The creature's deep, rumbling voice echoed across the war-torn landscape, sending a chill down Ethan's spine.You think you've won, boy?"The creature spat. Its voice was a corrupted mixture of fury and malice, dripping with contempt. "This world's already been slated for oblivion. You never were going to win."Lysara stood beside him, her eyes wid
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Episode 212: The Last War, The Last King
It was no longer their battlefield.What had once been a sky became a dirty mirror of a world that had died before history itself.The ground shook under Ethan and Asha’s feet, not from ruination, but from something attempting to rewrite existence itself.And at the center of the whole thingThe light belonged not to this world, and it now burned behind their eyes, at last uncovered from the shattered mask.The End.They weren’t human.They weren’t divine.They had been something before those things.And as they walked closer, the mere act of them distorted the air nearby.“You have tread too far, Hollow King.”“You’ve broken too many chains.“And now you will see what was meant to be forgotten.”Ethan’s hands made fists.Asha took a slow, deep breath.They had no time to think.Because the First King moved.And the final battle began.Ethan had little time to even react before he found the First King in front of him.Their movement flouted space itself—not teleportation, not speed, ju
Episode 210: The Beast That Devours Fate
Ethan felt nothing.No pain.No weight.No time.Just… absence.As if he had entered the void of creation itself.As if he never existed at all.But somewhere through the deafening silence.He could still hear Asha calling his name.Still feel the tug of who he was.What he had been.What he refused to lose.Because this wasn’t merely an enemy.This was something worse.Something beyond the throne.Farther than he had ever ventured beyond the kings and wars that had shaped his life.And if he didn’t stop it.There would have been nothing left to save.Not this world.Not Asha.Not himself.Nothing.Asha was losing him.She saw it.Felt it.Ethan was fading, his form wavering between real and unreal, his shadow bending, extending—being consumed.The Nameless Horror stood in front of them, a shape that had shape, a thing that had life, but nonetheless the presence of hunger.It had no eyes.No mouth.And yet.She could hear it laughing.Not a sound.Not a voice.A feeling.A whisper in
Episode 209: The Breaking of the Seal
Ethan and Asha fell through the floor.Not from an explosion.Not from an attack.But because something below it had stirred.A being older than the Hollow Throne.Something that had been locked away since the beginning of this world.And they had just released it into the wild.Or the very ground they fought upon, as Asha staggered backward, as wide-eyed as the battlefield ripping itself asunder, huge stone slabs rising into the air like broken sheets of a long-lost history.Ethan breathed slowly, steadily.But his shadow is his power.Trembled.For whatever was coming out of the cracks.It wasn’t a monster.It wasn’t a ruler.It was more than those things.That should have never come back to life.The tyrant coughed violently, blood leaking from between their lips, but they were smiling.Smiling as they knew exactly what was in store."You thought you won."Their voice was raw, not much more than a whisper.“You thought you could kill me and end this war.Their half-broken gaze sett
Episode 208: The Hollow King’s Last Breath
The battlefield had long been a maelstrom of destruction.But when the tyrant came down.Everything changed.The atmosphere twisted, warped by the mere gravity of their existence.Reddish-golden light poured off their form, writhing into physical might, bending the battlefield as if the very fabric of reality was willing itself to conform to their will.Ethan and Asha knew it immediately.The pressure.The difference.The monsters they’d fought before Vaelros, the tainted Tamers, the Eclipse Titan.They had been powerful.But this?This was a god entering the fray.Asha’s pulse pounded.She gripped her sword more tightly, but her fingers were numb.Ethan’s shadow trembled wildly.His power, which had always been bound to the throne, was now battling against him.Because the throne no longer belonged to him.And there before him stood its new ruler.The tyrant’s voice was calm. Smooth.Amused."Tell me, Hollow King…"“It’s like being powerless. How does that feel?The War Begins Again
Episode 207: The Tyrant Descends
The battlefield had long been a maelstrom of destruction.But when the tyrant came down.Everything changed.The atmosphere twisted, warped by the mere gravity of their existence.Reddish-golden light poured off their form, writhing into physical might, bending the battlefield as if the very fabric of reality was willing itself to conform to their will.Ethan and Asha knew it immediately.The pressure.The difference.The monsters they’d fought before Vaelros, the tainted Tamers, the Eclipse Titan.They had been powerful.But this?This was a god entering the fray.Asha’s pulse pounded.She gripped her sword more tightly, but her fingers were numb.Ethan’s shadow trembled wildly.His power, which had always been bound to the throne, was now battling against him.Because the throne no longer belonged to him.And there before him stood its new ruler.The tyrant’s voice was calm. Smooth.Amused."Tell me, Hollow King…"“It’s like being powerless. How does that feel?Ethan moved first.He
Episode 206: The Colossus That Eats Light
The Nightmare GrowsThings were coming apart at the scene of the battle.The colossus towered, hovering over Ethan and Asha, contorting, warping, and turning into something worse.Its shape contorted, once a lump of shadow and machination and now remolding itself in the heat of battle.Razor-sharp spines of obsidian jutted from its back. Its arms stretched, transforming into monstrous blades of pure void.And worse, it was learning.Ethan clenched his fists.Asha swallowed hard. “Tell me we have a plan.”Ethan exhaled. “We destroy it before it’s fully developed.”A pause.Then Asha grinned. “Good. That, I can do.”And then.They attacked.So, The Hollow King and the Tamer Strike BackAsha was first.She darted ahead, her knife glinting in the fractured light, stitching her way through the maelstrom of sorcery pulsing from the colossus.The air itself struggled against her, the raw force of the beast’s power stretching time like chewing gum around it.But Asha was faster.She ducked be
Episode 205: The War of Beasts and Kings
The battlefield ceased to be a desolation.It was a slaughterhouse.Asha’s boots skidded on the cracked earth, her blade shining as she plunged it into the chest of a monstrous soldier. The creature screeched, but it did not fall.It had no blood to spill.No flesh to break.It was a manifestation of the throne’s will, a life that was never meant to be extinguished.And it was multiplying.For each one she felled, two more crawled from their cracks, skeletal eyes fixated on her with unbowed faithfulness.Asha gritted her teeth.They were trapped.And Ethan.Ethan was fighting in another way.The Final Fighter: A King Without A Throne, A Fighter Without ChainsEthan had stopped using his shadow.The energy of the throne, his old throne, was throwing him out, and now the power of himself was turning against him.So instead he had been battling with his fists.With pure, relentless force.He slammed his heel into the earth, pushing himself forward, his body running faster than the though
Episode 204: The First War of the New King
The Rising StormThe wind was wrong.Not just heavy hostility.It contained something other than natural, something that made Asha’s skin prickle with unease.Standing with Ethan at the edge of the battlefield, she stared across the devastation of their greatest fight.But this was no victory here.Only loss.The throne was gone.Taken.And the world was already writhing under its new monarch.Ethan’s hands balled at his sides. His shadow, which he used to wield with ease, was still thrashing.Still smarting from being spurned by the throne that had once been his.Asha took a slow breath.“So,” she said, looking at him, willing to steady the weight at her chest. “Where do we start? ”Ethan didn’t respond right away.His eyes were fixed on the horizon.For the long walk back in the far distance past the shattered ruins, past the crumbling ashes of the old world.A new kingdom was forming.And it was spreading faster than they could contain it.The New King’s DomainThe sky was splittin
Episode 203: The New Tyrant
The throne was gone.The battlefield was wreckage, but it wasn’t the desolation that made Ethan’s chest a hollow place.It was the absence.He had spent every moment of his life struggling with the past, against it, trying to only be defined by what he could make of himself and his family rather than that throne.And now, someone else was in possession of it.Now, the world was breaking in ways he couldn’t control.Ethan blew out, trying to keep his breaths even.But Asha noticed the tension in his shoulders.She felt it too.The shift in the air.The change in, really, the world itself.Whatever this masked ruler had done, it had not simply been to take the throne.They had redefined something basic.And now, the reckoning was at hand.Fast.A First Indication of the New OrderThe ground quivered.Not from a battle, not an attack, but from something deeper.Asha’s instincts screamed.She grabbed Ethan’s arm.“Move.”Before he could ask it, the ground opened beneath them.An enormous
