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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Chapter 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 every u
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Chapter 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 unnaturall
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Chapter 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 sought t
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Chapter 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, you may c
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 180: The Throne of Forgotten Names
The world was breaking.Not in body alone, not in land alone in memory itself.It was happening; Asha could feel it, her thoughts fraying at the edges, unraveling like some old tapestry being picked piece by piece by piece. What was she forgetting? What had she already lost? Her own name tasted heavy in her mouth, as though it was at best half hers.And yet the Architect of Graves stood, unchanged, untroubled, unblemished, and its being was a chasm in the fabric of reality.Ethan remained on his knees, breathless, his body warring with reality.The black chains that had bound him before were gone but only because they’d been replaced by something worse.The very shadow he cast had turned against him.It slithered up his body like ink, like living tar, sliding beneath his skin, staining his veins.His fingers trembled, his breath hitched, and for the first time since Asha had met him, he looked frail.Defiance had always been his strength.His will, unbreakable.But now?Now something
Episode 179: The Lament of Hollow Thrones
The world had ended.And yet worse was already on the way.Asha was breathing hard and scrambling up off the ground, the field of battle a tangled, unrecognizable wreck. Colors that didn’t exist churned in the sky above, the very air shredding itself as if in rebellion against reality itself.The Nameless Choir, by contrast, had smashed the order of things to flinders, a song out of tune digging into the very bones of reality and unraveling them, one thread at a time.Yveth loomed a thing of infinite hunger, its zillions of teeth grinding together as it feasted upon the world itself. But now even it hesitated, its impossible form quaking under the weight of something even it could not comprehend.Ethan, or what's left of him, stood recklessly before it. And the voice it was speaking in strange languages, a new tongue he once knew, but each word had been swallowed whole, replaced by the buzz of death, the rumble of hell.Asha had witnessed him cheat death before. She had witnessed him
Episode 178: The Maw of Perdition
The world was broken.Asha could still taste ash in the air, thick and acrid, clinging to the insides of her lungs like something alive. The battlefield if it could still be called that was no more than broken earth and bleeding sky, a wound rent in the very fabric of reality.The cuneiform figure had done something to Ethan, something that couldn't be explained. He was standing, yes, breathing, yes, but incorrectly.The void had taken him.And now it was looking at him through them.Cain remained rigid with the sword trembling in his hands.His face was ashen, and he was panting in short, coarse breaths.Even Raven, the ghost of them all, was the only one to be unnaturally still, her fingers flitting along the hem of her cloak as though she’d just be giving up on this place and leaving.But Asha could not move.She could only stare at Ethan at what had once been Ethan.His formerly recognizable features had contorted, the planes and angles of his face darkened by a thing moving under
Episode 177: The Hollow Crown the Ashen Reckoning
The sky bled ruin.Colors with no place in this world twisted through the heavens, putrescent violets and rotting blacks that twisted like wounds in the seat of reality.But the battlefield, already a Sargasso Sea of lost flesh and cracked subsoil and the hush of final embers, trembled under something formless, merciless, only hungry.Asha stumbled, dragging a streak of blood from her brow, the air heavy with the decay that made her lungs hurt. Cain was still rising to his feet, his sword a useless tremor in his shaking hands. Raven, always the specter, had already melted into the dark, cold and observing. Calculating.And then there was Ethan.Or what was left of him.He stood at the center of the slaughter, his body cloaked in writhing coils of silver and black, his eyes those twin eclipses alight with something beyond human understanding. He avoided looking at his friends. He did not acknowledge their pleading, horrified stares.He was staring into the face of the Warden of Ash.A
Episode 176: The Hollow Crown
The Eclipse DevoursAn ancient, hollow, endless howl cracked the sky.The ground shuddered under the weight of the battlefield.It was no mere sound it was a force, a vibration that slithered under the skin, coiled around the bones, and whispered in the ears of those who caught its unseen gaze.Asha’s breath hitched.Shit, she thought, as she gripped the useless hilts of her snapped daggers tighter, her mind spinning.That sound… It wasn’t Ethan.Cain was spitting blood onto the parched earth as he pulled himself upright.His muscles shrieked, but his instincts shrieked louder move, fight, survive.But how the fuck were they supposed to fight that?Ethan or what remained of him stood frozen there, head thrown back, silver-black chains slithering around his arms like live creatures.There was not even a hint of recognition in his face, no flash of familiarity.Just a slow, spooky smile as his monstrous eyes glimmered like twin eclipses.And then… he spoke."He comes."The ground split
Episode 175: The Awakening of the Heir
The Space Between Life and DeathEthan floated.Weightless. Silent.Suspended in the infinite black between existence and oblivion.His body was gone, shed like an old husk.What was left was something different.Something unfinished.A resounding voice echoed through the void. Smooth.Cold. Familiar."Still fighting, even now?"Ethan’s mind stirred.His soul was heartlessly chained, rattling now, deep and powerful and dark-run purgatorial energy coursing through it, each pulse sending blinding pain clean through him.Then he saw him.Silver eyes fall like dying stars of the Eclipsed King at the center of all the void.Ethan’s teeth clenched, battling against the pain, summoning himself his shape flickered, uncertain, a golden glow fighting against the black webbing that invaded his arms.“You’re in my head,” Ethan rumbled, his voice hoarse. "Get the hell out."The king just tilted his head and smirked."Oh, Ethan. This is not your head anymore.”The abyss shook.And with that, Ethan
Episode 174: Chains of the Fallen
The AftermathOn the battlefield, it was like the calm before the storm.From broken soil, smoke curled.The sounds of battle faded, leaving behind a heavy silence as the air hung with the burden of recent events.Ethan lurched forward, gasping for air like a wounded animal.His limbs throbbed with pain, every vein still coursing with the lingering power of the fusion.Every fiber of his being told him he ought to be dead.And yet he stood.He had survived.Yet something within him felt … off.He shook not just because of the immense effort but also for something deeper, something that could not be seen.Cain sat hunched over near him, a hand pressed against his chest where the abyssal tendrils had grasped him just moments before.His skin was still dark in places, veins blackened from lingering corruption.Asha pressed against a broken edge, panting.Blood still ran from her shoulder, but her violet eyes were glued to the spot where the Eclipsed King had disappeared.Raven, always th
Episode 173: The King Who Was Eclipsed
The Rift OpensThe air split like cracking bone.Reality tore itself apart behind Ethan, birthing a swirling vortex of writhing black and crimson light.The battlefield jerked, as if the very laws of gravity had paused, either in worship or in terror.A new presence had arrived.And it was watching.Before he saw it, Ethan felt the shift. An energy pulse that made the abyss tend away.As he gripped his sword tighter, a slow pressure, viscous and monstrous, seeped from the rift, curling the spine like a whisper of death.Even the figure in the hood, the architect of so much pain, paused.Then from the void a hand appeared.Not like the viney brutes of the abyss, nor the squiggly tentacles of the Whohnthe.This was something different.A hand impossibly perfect, impossibly human, dressed in silver rings and covered in eiderdown, shadow-like tattoos that warbled like constellations.And then he stepped through.The Arrival of the King (that he eclipsed)As he stepped out fully into the f
Episode 172: Dominion
Darkness seemed to engulf Ethan whole, a void deeper than darkness.His screams muffled in the void, his body gleefully weightless yet crushed beneath a weight he would never know.His mind warped, thoughts twisting into whispers some his own, some foreign, invasive, and hungry.A voice slithered through the darkness."Let it go, Ethan. Let the pain evaporate… Surrender, and you shall live again.”No.He fought against the pull, the unseen shackles pulling him deeper, and clenched his fists.The power, the abyss it wanted him to give in. To become something else.His breath hovered in his rib cage, his body quaking on the brink of erasure. Images flashed through his mind Ignis, his fierce dragon companion; Osha, the knight who fought beside him; the Lion, his stalwart beast, who still battled the foe.His friends, the ones who had died.Asha. Cain. Raven.He couldn’t lose himself.Ethan thundered through the abyss with a defiant roar, his soul ablaze with golden light.The darkness sc
