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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
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 130: Eternal Light Awake
The crack in the heavens yawned open, a searing light spilling from the rift; the new figure, a being of radiant power, descended slowly from the divine expanse. Its form is blinding to behold. The creature's features were hidden in a glowing armor of pure energy, but Ethan could feel the immense weight of its presence, a power beyond anything he had ever known.Lysara stood by his side, her eyes narrowed in awe and fear. "This is no ordinary enemy," she whispered softly, her voice barely audible above the wind screaming around them.Ethan tightened his hold on his sword, the flame of the Phoenix flickering inside him, and its light was but a spark in comparison to the blinding splendor falling before them. "Who are you?" he asked, his voice steady, yet his heart raced with the truth that they could be up against something much larger than they might comprehend.The voice of the being echoed in the air, as if it was coming from the heavens themselves. "I am the Harbinger of Light, the
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 131: The Shattering of Reality
The dust settled in the air like a veil, the silence heavy and still after the explosion. Ethan dragged himself up from the ground, his body screaming in protest at every movement, but his frozen muscles didn't let him look away from the sight before him.The figure stood in the center of the ruined battlefield, its eyes glowing with cold, eerie light, sending shivers down his spine. Its presence felt like nothing ever known before that's how his feelings were affected. It possessed such an intense aura that it changed reality itself to fit its mien. That radiating energy alone was able to make the earth shake under their feet. The power felt a little weak compared to his flickering energy while feeling the burning flames of his Phoenix. This is now weakly glowing against that new source.Lysara looked up at the figure, her eyes wide with disbelief, still recovering from the shockwave she felt moments before. "No… it can't be."Ethan turned toward her. "What… what is this?" His voice
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Episode 194: The Shadow That Watches
The world was too quiet.Too still.Asha knelt next to Ethan, blood pooled beneath the wound, his breathing shallow, his pulse weak beneath her fingers. His body was cold, and his veins still ran dark from whatever had attempted to claim him.The crevices through which the hand had come were closed and sealed as if they had never existed.But Asha knew the truth.And then something had gone reaching for Ethan.And next time it wouldn’t miss.Kastiel stood a few feet away, arms crossed, watching the aftermath with disturbing glee.“Well,” he said, tilting his head. "That was dramatic."Asha shot him a glare. "Not. Now."Kastiel smirked but didn’t press.She looked back at Ethan, tightening her fingers around his wrist.“Ethan,” she said, whispering, voice urgent. "Wake up."Nothing.Then.The wind shifted.And the world changed.The battlefield, the blood, the bodies, the ruins.Vanished.Asha’s breath caught.She was no longer standing in the wreckage.She was somewhere else.A place
Episode 193: The Fourth Seal Trembles
Ethan staggered, blood soaking his side as the pain blurred his vision.Veyra’s spear wound still burned, but it was more than a wound.Some part of him had broken free.The third seal was broken.And now.The fourth was stirring.They had an air of otherworldliness.The red moon hanging over us had begun to disappear, but the damage was done.The ground beneath Ethan’s feet throbbed, thin rivulets of black energy oozing out through the fractures.Even the world itself was replying to him now.And that meant something worse was coming.”Asha was already next to him, holding on to his arm, eyes shining with concern.“You’re still bleeding,” she said, voice taut. “We need to get out of here.”Before Ethan could respond.The ground below them exploded.The battlefield shattered.A vast chasm yawned open beneath them, uncoiling tendrils of black smoke that smelled of death and rot.There came a stirring in the dark.Something old.Something is waiting.Asha and Ethan flinched; the size of
Episode 192: The Wolves of the Broken Moon
As soon as Ethan’s blood touched the ground, the world shattered.Not like a crack in stone.Not like a wound in flesh.Like something had ripped reality in two.Asha felt it in her bones a shift, a break, a horrible cracking of balance that sent a pulse of wrong through the air.The earth below them quaked violently, as if trying to determine whether it even existed.And the sky.The red moon pulsed.Its glow deepened, darkened, dripped and seeped into the air like spilled ink.Asha wouldn’t have had time to register any of it before Ethan dropped to one knee, blood spilling from his side.No.She shifted, reaching toward him, but.A spear came crashing down in front of her.Asha slid to a halt, her boots churning up dust.A mocking voice, one they recognized all too well, echoed across the battlefield.“Going somewhere?”Asha was breathing heavily and rapidly.Veyra.The Huntmaster of the Blood Moon towered above her, braced her spear against the shattered ground, wolf-ish blue eyes
Episode 191: The Third Seal Stirs
The battlefield had darkened again, but not in the right way.The kind that felt temporary.The sort that meant something was getting ready to happen.Asha continued to grip Ethan’s wrist, her pulse pounding.The flavor of the dark that had nearly swiped him from her was still clinging to her skin, the long whisper of what shadows had desired to be him but what he’d never become, what he’d never been, what he had never wanted.Ethan was breathing hard.The sludge in his veins had ceased to grow darker, the occasional speck of black that had graced his skin fading, but he had not so much as stirred since the King had vanished.His hands were still shaking.His shadow wasn’t.Asha turned to Kastiel. “Tell me what just happened.”Kastiel exhaled and gave a stretch, but achingly, and his golden eyes were fierce.He said, “The second seal breaking, it means his past is waking. “And the third seal?” His smirk widened.“Ones going to be a hell of a lot more impatient.”The wind shifted.Asha
Episode 190: The Nameless Legion
Ethan lay unmoving.Asha placed both hands on his chest, felt his heartbeat too slow, too faint.His breath barely whispered past his lips, his body shaking as if something inside him was crumbling to the ground.But that wasn’t what frightened her.It was the names.Ethan still whispered them.A faithful, ceaseless roll of voices forgotten in time.She tried to shake him. “Ethan! Wake up.His body thrashed violently, his breath catching as if he were drowning.And then.The world shifted.Asha felt it in her bones.The air thickened, and the ground underfoot trembled like something below is rising.Then.The corpses rose again.Asha spun, her sword in her hands.The battlefield was no longer a battleground.It was a graveyard that wouldn’t stay buried.And in the center of it all.A new figure emerged.Asha’s breath hitched.Because this was one that was different.This one wore a crown.The King of the NamelessWhen he first showed up, the dead ceased moving.They didn’t attack.The
Episode 189: The Second Hunter
The ground of battle had been soaked in red.Asha gasped each breath, the sword dripping thick, blackened blood from the creature she had just slain. The dead that were never supposed to be there lay splayed about them, with bodies so fresh it was as if they’d just dropped.But it wasn’t over.The first seal had broken.And something bigger was coming.Ethan was beside her, his blood streaming down his chest as the black strands from his injury shot out of his body once more. Its shadow curled oddly below, reacting to something below it no one else could feel.Then.The ground trembled.Asha snapped her head up.The darkened sky split open once more.A second figure crossed over.Another Hunter Enters the FieldThe air grew cold.Not the kind of cold that came with winter but the kind that came with death.But the figure who stepped out of the shade was nothing like Veyne.This one stood taller and broader, its segmented skin wrapped in sheets of black armor that seemed hammered out o
Episode 188: The First Seal
The absence, once faceless, left too poignant a silence.The world had returned to a dead calm, but the wrong kind of calm after a storm, not before one.Before a hunt.Asha knew that silence, Asha.It meant they weren’t alone.She tightened her hold on my blade, stepping toward Ethan.His breath was still coming in jagged bursts, and his fists were balled at his sides.His shadow had stuck to him for the time being, but she could still see the tension in him.She spoke low. “We need to move.”Ethan didn’t respond right away.He stared at the place where the faceless ones had stood.Not where they had vanished.Where they had watched him.Like they were waiting.Waiting for him to remember.Asha clenched her jaw. No.Whatever else they wanted, whatever he was to them, they were wrong.And she was not going to let them take him.Ethan finally breathed out, his voice firm but far away. “We’re not alone.”Asha’s breath stilled.Then.The shadows moved.Asha reacted instantly. She twirled
Episode 187: The Nameless One
The battlefield fell silent.For one suspended, fleeting moment, the world seemed to hold its breath, like reality itself stopped spinning, waiting to find out what he’d done.Then.The thing shattered.Not in the way a body breaks. Not with bone, not with blood.It unmade itself.The air quaked, the place it had occupied folding in on itself, and for one dreadful instant Asha glimpsed something beneath.A snapshot of what used to be, ripped from your grasp.Then it was gone.The wind shifted.Not as a storm builds, not the taste of rain, not the faraway rumble of thunder, but something much deeper.Something unnatural.When she had seen it, Asha had felt it in a marrow-level way.She gazed out to the horizon, to the dimming sky, at the lack of clouds, a massive shadow pulsating across the heavens, traveling fast.Her heart raced in her chest like a trapped bird.Ethan saw it too.His back went stiff, and his shadow twisted howling under him as if it recognized the encroachment of the
Episode 186: The Teeth of the Forgotten
Asha hit the ground hard.The blow expelled the air from her lungs, and she tumbled across the parched soil.Her limbs throbbed with pain, but she hardly registered it.Her mind was still spinning from what had just happened from the throne, from the Rift, from Ethan ripping himself free of the past that had tried to eat him.She dragged herself to her feet, wheezing, vision swirling.They were back.The battlefield surrounded them, familiar but … wrong.The air was heavy now, thick with energy, as if the planet itself had tilted out of alignment.The sky wasn’t bleeding anymore, but it wasn’t right either; colors swirled in shapes they shouldn’t, as if the Rift had made a bruise that wouldn’t go away.And beside her.Ethan.He was on all fours, breath short, fingers dug into the ground as if he needed to attach himself to something real. His shadow still not quite right writhed unnaturally, stretching in directions it didn’t belong.Asha swallowed hard.“Ethan.”He didn’t answer.A b
