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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
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 132: The Final Descent
Chaos on the battlefield. The earth shook beneath the clash of powers. So much so that it was splitting open as if, indeed, the very world's heart was at war with itself. Ethan gasped for breath, fighting to find his way onto his feet, his legs barely supporting him at all. The Phoenix fire in him lit weakly, like a dying ember, against this overwhelming darkness that had engulfed the land.However, even as it appeared to waver, its pure light faltered against the oppressive power of the being before them. The figure, which earlier had loomed only as a vague threat in their minds, now stood fully realized as a towering force of malevolence standing at the very center of the shattered battlefield."Never to win, Ethan," the figure spoke in a voice that was like a death knell, a thing cold and unyielding. "This world will break beneath the weight of my power. You were never meant to stop me. You were only meant to awaken me."His heart slammed within his chest, and he stared at the bein
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 133: The Abyss Awakens
The battlefield was in shambles, the sky twisted and torn, dark clouds swirling overhead as the remnants of the battle echoed in the air. Ethan's body felt like it was being pulled apart. His muscles ached, and his breath came in shallow gasps as the Phoenix flame flickered weakly around him. He could barely hold himself upright, the remnants of his power draining away with every passing moment. And yet, in the depths of his chest, the faintest flicker of hope remained.The figure before them once a looming shadow in their minds was now all too real, a manifestation of darkness and despair that had plagued the land for eons. It had been moments since their final clash, but Ethan could still feel the oppressive weight of the figure's power bearing down on him.The figure's form was now broken into parts, cracks shooting along its massive body, its aura shimmering with a malignant energy. It stood, unmoving for one heartbeat, then let out a low, mocking laugh that sent shivers down Etha
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 134: The Dawning of the Apocalypse
The air was heavy with the smell of battle, heavy with the scent of burnt earth and the acrid sting of blood. Ethan's body shook, his breath coming in ragged gasps as the last vestiges of his power drained from him. His sword, still glowing with the faint traces of Phoenix flame, felt like a dead weight in his hand. He could feel the warmth slipping away, and with it, his strength.Beside him, Lysara also wrestled with her attempt to rise, her face pale and her body battered by the blast. The golden light of her staff flickered dimly, a stark contrast to the overwhelming darkness that began to encroach on them. They fought with everything they had, yet it had been too little. The figure before them a twisted embodiment of corruption stands up with its form writhing like a serpent, struggling to keep its shape. Despite the pure energy that had blown out of Ethan, the figure remained alive and worst was even stronger than before."You are a tenacious one, I'll give you that," he said, h
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 135: The Awakening of the Dark God
The battlefield was under Ethan's feet, as the ground was actually shaking under it, with a rift in the sky expanding all the way through. A deep, otherworldly voice began to resonate across the fabric of reality, sending an unmistakable sense of inevitable doom throughout the air. The voice didn't belong to a mortal creature; it belonged to something much more ancient, far more terrible.The end has come, mortal. Prepare yourself for the dawn of destruction.Ethan's heart pounded within his chest. The weight of the words hung over him, crushing him with a force like a sledgehammer. With all the strength that coursed through his veins, with all the strength he had drawn from his bonds with his companions, a sense of foreboding gripped him. What was emerging from that rift wasn't just a monster. It wasn't just a dark force. It was something ancient, something that had been waiting for this moment for millennia.Lysara stood beside him, her staff crackling with golden energy, and could
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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
Episode 185: The Shadow That Called My Name
The world broke.Not in a blast, not in a brutal collapse, but in unwinding as if reality itself was being remade, ripped apart at the seams of existence. The light that had burst forth in the Rift wasn't redemption. It was transformation.And Asha was trapped in between.The pressure of the explosion hurled her across the floor, her body floating in midair, her ears ringing with something that was not sound but memory: thousands of voices talking all at once.Ethan!She struggled to get up, struggled to reach for him, but she couldn't see only glimpses of things that had already occurred, things that ought not to have occurred.The Hollow Crown.The battlefield that wasn't a battlefield. The throne, waiting and empty.And Ethan.Ethan, standing before it.Not now. Not in the present.Before.Before he had ever left.Before he had ever been Ethan.Asha gasped, pushing forward, pushing herself back to the now.And suddenly, she was falling.The ground reformed beneath her feet, hard an
Episode 184: The Rift Remembers
A World UnravelingAsha's cry was gone into the abyss.The Rift opened wide, devouring them in a sea of nothingness.No, not nothingness.Something far worse.Something that had existed and had no business ever existing again.The instant her hand had curled around Ethan's wrist, the world had collapsed. The sky tore apart like shattered glass, the earth curved beneath her, and then there was a tug, a savage, screaming tug tearing her down, down, down.The feeling wasn't like falling.It was like being erased.The blackness that surrounded them wasn't anything. It was everything thick, choking, heavy with whispers, heavy with names.Asha held onto Ethan as hard as she could, her heart pounding against the cage of her ribs. But he was frozen, too frozen, like the force of the Rift had already gotten inside him, already started its slow, inexorable claiming.She opened her mouth and attempted to call his name.The words did not exist.Something was amiss.Something was re-weaving itself
Episode 183: The Name That Was Never Meant to Be
The Night That ListenedThe world did not settle.Though dawn crept over the ruins, coloring the shattered stones with pale light, the air stayed restless, tinged with the resonance of something that shouldn't have been said.The words of the chronicler had shattered the thin silence Ethan had held onto, fracturing something within him that was never whole to start with.Asha watched him, still.He had not budged since those words had escaped the Chronicler's lips."You were never supposed to leave that throne.""You were the last."Ethan had just stood there, his shadow reaching in directions that did not exist, his shoulders rigid, his fists at his sides. He did not flinch, did not question.He only listened.As if he had known this truth all along.The Chronicler had withdrawn back into the ruins, its shape breaking down into parchment and ink, but its words remained.Cain, usually the most vocal of them, sat in uncharacteristic silence.Raven moved restlessly, eyes flicking betwee
Episode 182: The Fractured Oath
The battlefield was wrong.It hadn't just changed it had been rewritten.Asha knew it in her bones, in the air she breathed, in the way time itself dragged between each heartbeat. The world was still here, but it was cracked at the edges, as if something huge had gnawed on its shape and spat it back out.The Hollow Crown was no more. The occupant of the throne had departed, but its departure was worse than its arrival.For it had left behind something.Ethan.Asha's fingers still throbbed where he had held them.The black was receding from his eyes, but not all the way, as if whatever had attempted to take him had only rested, waiting for the moment when it could drive its teeth in deeper.He wasn't talking.He was observing.Observing the throne. Observing the void where the thing had sat.Observing his own hands, as if he didn't know if they were still his.Asha pushed aside her discomfort and stepped closer."Ethan"A breath. A flash of movement.She wasn't aware of him getting up,
