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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
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 160: The Price of Power
The battlefield was a nightmare of fire and blood.Ethan’s breath came in ragged gasps as he stood amidst the carnage. His sword, its once-pristine blade now cracked and dripping with black ichor, pulsed with unstable energy. Around him, the remnants of the corrupted army lay in twisted, smoldering heaps, but the battle was far from over.The Abyssal Devourer loomed in the distance, its many faces contorted in agony and rage. Its limbs, grotesquely elongated and pulsating with darkness, reached out hungrily, devouring the very essence of the fallen warriors. Beyond understanding that's what this creature was. A living nightmare. A thing that shouldn't exist in this world.Ethan wiped the sweat and blood from his face, his mind racing. His companions Ignis, the armored knight, and the lion were still standing, but barely. Their forms flickered, their energy dangerously low. The battle had pushed them beyond their limits, and yet their greatest enemy still towered before them, unscathed
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 161: Shadows of the Forgotten
The battlefield was in shambles, saturated with the blood of friend and foe alike. The air reeked of death, and the faint echoes of dying screams still lingered. Ethan rubbed the crimson streak from his face, his body barely holding together from the wounds that marked his flesh. His sword pulsed with energy, feeding off his dwindling life force, demanding more.Across from him was a new nightmare.From the depths of blackness, there came an appearance: a hulking giant in armor darker than the night itself. The shape seemed to writhe and ripple, like reality itself couldn't abide this thing's being. Twin fiery eyes fixed upon Ethan, their burning intensity enough to make shivers run along his spine.The Abyssal Warden was gone, but in its place stood something far worse."Ethan!" a voice called from behind. It was Lena, her face smeared with blood, her arms trembling from exhaustion. She clutched her daggers tightly, eyes darting between Ethan and the abomination before them. "We have
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 162: Requiem of the Fallen
Darkness. Silence. An endless abyss.Ethan floated in the void, weightless, his body suspended between existence and oblivion. His heartbeat was faint, each pulse slower than the last. Memories flickered before him his past, his friends, the battles he had fought. Then came the voice. Low. Ancient. Cold."You are not the first to fall. You will not be the last."A sudden force yanked him downward. The darkness twisted and coiled, forming grotesque hands that clawed at his limbs. Ethan struggled, thrashing against the invisible chains that pulled him deeper into the void. A crimson glow pulsed beneath him, illuminating the abyss in sickly light.Then he saw them.Hundreds no, thousands of warriors, all clad in tattered armor, their hollow eyes staring into nothingness. The remnants of those who had come before him. Those who had wielded the artifact’s power… and failed."Ethan! Wake up!"A distant voice shattered the void. Lena.The abyss convulsed. The ghostly figures shrieked as ligh
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 163: Darkness Clashed
The sky was shattered. The gaping void above them pulsed, a swirling vortex of malevolent energy, its crimson eyes blinking in chaotic rhythm. The battlefield, once littered with the corpses of fallen monsters, now trembled under the weight of something far worse.Ethan's breathing was rough, his eyes blurring. The artifact on his chest throbbed spasmodically as it sensed the breach in reality. He felt the weight of his choices pressing down on him. He had won the battle, but by doing so, he had unleashed an even greater horror.A deep, guttural growl reverberated through the air. From the chasm in the sky, an enormous clawed hand emerged, its obsidian surface rippling with dark energy. The fingers flexed, talons gleaming in the dying light. Then came the rest of it a hulking abomination of fused bodies and writhing appendages, its maw splitting open into a grotesque grin.Lena coughed, clutching her wounded side as she stumbled to Ethan’s side. “Tell me we have a plan.”Ethan tighten
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 164: Ashes of the Fallen
The battlefield was silent eerily so. The explosion of light that had erupted from Ethan’s final charge had left nothing but a smoldering crater in the heart of the abyss. The ground was cracked and scorched, and the air shimmered with residual energy. But as the dust began to settle, a new dread crept over those who had survived.Lena clutched her chest, struggling to catch her breath. The knight, still battered and dented, stood rigid, scanning the horizon for any sign of Ethan. Ignis, though wounded, let out a soft growl, his wings folding tight against his back. They had retreated, as Ethan had commanded but none of them could shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong.Then, the air split with a low, guttural rumble.A ripple of darkness slithered across the battlefield. It began as a whisper, an echo of something ancient and restless. And then, from the center of the crater, a clawed hand emerged massive, charred, and pulsing with void energy. The earth trembled as some
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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
