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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 152: The Piece of His Soul
The air was thick with ash and the acrid stench of burning shadows. Tendrils of darkness writhed and twisted like serpents over the battlefield, seeking purchase on what little light remained. Ethan stood at the epicenter of chaos, his body trembling with exhaustion but refusing to falter.Sweat dripped down his brow, mingling with streaks of blood on his face, but his grip on the blazing sword never wavered. The luminous entity he had summoned, an embodiment of his will, hovered protectively behind him, its wings radiating golden brilliance. "We can't hold this forever," Ethan whispered through gritted teeth, looking at Ignis, the battered dragon whose flames flickered weakly. The once-mighty beast's scales were scorched black, its wings torn and bloodied. The knight, wielding a now-dulled sword, staggered as if each step cost him a piece of his soul. The lion, emblematic of courage, limped forward with defiant snarls despite its matted fur and wounds. The void had adapted to ever
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 153: Shadows of Reckoning
The air crackled with energy as the aftermath of the previous battle settled into eerie silence. Smoke and ash swirled around Ethan, his body battered and bruised but still standing. His sword, now flickering with a dim, unstable light, hung heavily at his side. His breath was ragged, each inhale a struggle against the crushing weight of exhaustion.Behind him, the aftermath of the battlefield seemed to go on for an eternity: a graveyard of twisted shadows and fallen monsters. Ignis, his magnificent dragon summon, had vanished into its ethereal state, shimmering faintly in the air like a protective ghost. The armored knight, though valiant in its resilience, had crumpled into fractured armor scattered across the earth drenched with blood. Ethan's lion companion stood at his side, its golden mane dulled with grime, growling low and steady.But there was no time to rest.From the thick haze, a new presence emerged one that sent a chill down Ethan’s spine. The darkness rippled unnaturally
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 154: On the Edge of Oblivion
A deafening silence followed the collapse of the temple walls. Dust spiraled upward, mingling with the acrid scent of scorched earth and shattered stone. Ethan stumbled to his feet, blood trickling from a cut above his brow. The light from his sword flickered weakly, casting desperate shadows against the ruined battleground. His breaths were ragged, each inhale a struggle against the weight of exhaustion pressing on his chest. "You can't fail now," Ethan whispered to himself, his grip on the hilt of his sword tightening. The fallen allies came into his mind: the sacrifices they had made for him to get to this point. He owed them victory. Behind him, the colossal figure of Ignis roared defiantly, flames reigniting despite the thick darkness pressing in. The dragon’s wings beat against the air, scattering fragments of corrupted shadow beasts that lunged from every direction. Beside Ignis, the armored knight swung its gleaming blade, carving through tendrils of black energy that sough
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 155: Igris
The battlefield was far from silent. The dark energy hummed eerily through the air, the oppressive weight of the emerging darkness pressing against Ethan's chest like a suffocating vice. His muscles screamed in protest, yet he forced himself upright, gripping his sword tighter as he faced the figure that had risen from the remains of the Abyssal Warden. Obsidian-plated, this figure stood without movement, eyes burning into Ethan as jagged cracks ran across its plated body, pulsating with a deep crimson glow like it was just barely containing something inside of itself. "I have heard the stories of your fight, boy." The figure's voice was like grating stone, raw and laced with condescension. "The tamer of beasts, wielder of light. And yet you stand on broken ground, barely able to lift your weapon." Ethan's jaw set. "Who are you?" The figure cocked its head to one side. "Names are but momentary things, lost in the rivers of time. But if it makes you understand your smallness, yo
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 156: Time Stop's
The battlefield was silent for just a moment.Then, the darkness roared back to life.Ethan's sword struck true, a blinding arc of light carving through Noctis's form. For a split second, the shadowy warlord's armor cracked, splitting apart like shattered obsidian. But instead of falling, Noctis let out a guttural laugh."Fascinating," he murmured, his voice dripping with amusement.Then, the world exploded.A shockwave of dark energy shot outward, flinging Ethan through the temple's ruins. He smashed through stone and debris, his body battered and bleeding. His vision blurred, but he pushed himself to concentrate, blinking away the dust and blood.His friends Ignis, the knight, and the lion remained bound up by corruption that seemed to be devouring their bodies. Their eyes flashed between fierce resistance and fawning submission, locked in an internal battle raging against the shadow infecting each of them.Ethan ground his fists together. He could not lose them. Not now. Not ever.
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 157: The Battle Erupted
The air trembled with a suffocating weight.Ethan’s grip tightened around his sword, sweat dripping from his brow as he stared up at the nightmarish entity that had emerged from the rift. It was unlike anything he had ever faced a colossal amalgamation of shifting limbs, spiraling eyes, and a mouth that stretched across its entire grotesque form. Its presence alone made the battlefield feel smaller, as if reality itself bent to accommodate its unfathomable mass.Noctis stood beside it, his expression one of dark amusement. "Behold, the Harbinger of Oblivion," he said, voice laced with reverence. "Your struggle ends here, boy."Ethan’s heart pounded. He had barely managed to reclaim his allies from corruption, and now they stood at the precipice of something even more terrifying. He glanced to his side Ignis, the knight, and the lion. They had recovered, but their breaths were heavy, their bodies battered.They were running out of time.The Harbinger let out a sound that wasn’t a roar
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 158: Light and Shadow
The sky remained split, golden radiance spilling from the heavens like a divine wound in the fabric of reality. The armored figure descended with a deliberate grace, their spear of light crackling with untamed energy. Ethan felt the sheer power radiating from them a force beyond anything he had encountered before.Noctis narrowed his eyes, his grip on his blade tightening. "So, the gods finally intervene," he murmured, his voice laced with disdain. "How predictable."The figure touched the ground, their luminous eyes locking onto Ethan. "Rise, warrior. This battle is far from over."Ethan gritted his teeth and pushed himself up, ignoring the searing pain in his side where Aiden’s corrupted blade had pierced him. Blood stained his clothes, but he refused to falter. "Who? Who are you?""I am Lysara, Warden of the Celestial Accord," the figure declared. "The abyss has defied balance for too long. It ends now."Before Ethan could respond, the Harbinger of Oblivion shrieked, its colossal f
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 159: The Whirlwind
The battlefield was dripping with blood and shadow. Steel on flesh rang out through the temple ruins. Ethan gritted his teeth, his arms numb from the sheer force of combat. His sword, now glowing with a flickering ethereal light, dripped with the dark ichor of fallen enemies. Ignis circled overhead, unleashing torrents of fire that turned the swarming shadow beasts into piles of smoldering ash.But it wasn't enough.The enemy was relentless.From the gaping void left behind by the Abyssal Warden, a new horror emerged. A towering figure drenched in jagged obsidian armor, its body pulsing with dark energy. Its face is a twisted mask of agony, hollow eyes glowing with a violet hue burning with an unnatural hunger. Its fingers elongate into razor-sharp talons dripping with the blood of the fallen.The Abyss General had arrived.Ethan didn't even have time to process the situation before the general surged forward, closing the distance in a blink of an eye. He raised his sword to block, bu
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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
