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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 36: A Shattered Hope
The ground shook beneath Ethan's feet as the dark creatures came forward, their grotesque forms skittering across the forest floor like some malignant swarm of nightmares.His pulse quickened, his chest tight with the weight of the artifact pulsing in his hand, the power inside him throbbing with dark intent, urging him to let it all out at once, to indulge in the chaos and destruction beckoning.“You think you’re in control?” Kaelen’s voice sliced through the noise, cool and mocking. “You can’t fight it forever, Ethan. You’ll become just like them. You’ll be mine.”Ethan’s teeth gritted together, his mind a battlefield. He could feel the artifact pulling at him, trying to force him into submission, but he couldn’t let go. Not now. Not when everything was at stake.His eyes locked with Lysara's, her face taut, but her hand on her sword never wavering. She was the only one who had stood by him from the very start, even when all hope seemed lost. He couldn't fail her. He couldn't let Ka
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 37: A World in Ruins
The darkness suffocated.Ethan caught his breath in ragged gasps as he stared into the abyss where Mia had just vanished. His body was shaking because of the shock, the burning sensation piercing his very being, as if needles had been fired through his very soul. His soul had left his body like it had no existence, an empty, throbbing hollow inside him.No." he whispered, his voice undistinguishable from the earth-shattering roar of the chasm that had gobbled her up whole. "No.no.no. No.His hands trembled to reach out, but there was nothing. No, not that. Nothing but swirling blackness, it seemed, to laugh at the desperation of the man. The ground beneath his feet cracked and shuddered in protest, like the earth was rebelling at his failure. It had all been his fault. He could have been quicker. He should have been stronger.But he wasn't.Not a man strong enough to save his sister.The hand on Lysara's shoulder tightened like a vice, and still, still couldn't help him back to the ed
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 38: Shattered Realities
The world became silent.All that had once been living, all of it fighting for its life, went silent, faded into an asphyxiating nothingness. The air was heavy, unnatural, like breathing underwater. Ethan's lungs constricted; the pressure in his chest rose as the darkness swallowed him whole. He could hear nothing but his own heartbeat: quick, irrational, and brutally deafening.His mind was racing. What had just occurred? Where was Kaelen? Where was Lysara?But when his eyes snapped open, he was no longer in the forest.The scene before him was stark, unnaturally still. The trees, the earth, even the sky were gone, replaced by a barren wasteland of jagged stone and swirling shadows. It was a place that defied reason, a place outside of time and space."Where in the hell am I?" muttered Ethan softly, unsure his words had an audience, even for himself.He took one step forward, and the ground grumbled beneath him in protest. Every inch of this place felt wrong, like it was waiting for
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 39: The Shattered Veil
Ethan gasped for air as the world outside him erupted into mayhem. The darkness that had swallowed the arena seemed to spread and twist, crawling up the walls of his mind, drowning him in a suffocating darkness. His senses blurred. The taste of copper filled his mouth, and the earth beneath him shook violently, the very fabric of reality crumbling to dust.He had been here before.He had felt it before, that crushing sense of dread, the one that clawed at your insides, gnawed at your very soul, until you couldn't even tell what was real anymore. The suffocating pressure, the fear that no matter how hard you fought, the darkness would swallow you whole.This time was different.This time, Ethan wasn't alone.A distant scream echoed through the black void, sharp and full of pain. It was Lysara.He clenched his fists, his heart pounding in his chest. Her cry sliced through the crushing darkness like a blade through flesh. It was the sound of a soul being torn apart. Ethan couldn't let th
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 40: The Voice
Darkness closed in around Ethan like a vice, suffocating him, squeezing the life out of him. The pain in his chest felt like a knife being twisted, the wound deep and unrelenting. He gasped, trying to force air into his lungs, but it felt like the world itself was pressing down on him, the weight of Kaelen's power crushing him into the ground.Ethan's vision blurred, the edges of his world fading to black as the violet energy crackled around him like a living thing, its pulse beating in time with his own frantic heartbeat.His body screamed for release, for freedom, but there was nowhere to go. He was trapped in this twisted void, and Kaelen was the predator and the cage all at once."You really thought you could stop me?" Kaelen's voice was ice, dripping with contempt. "You never had a chance."Ethan curled his fists as his mind screamed for an out, a way to fight back, but his body seemed frozen, unable to move due to the immense power Kaelen held. The pain that threatened to tear h
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 41: The Battle Within
Ethan's world exploded in a haze of white-hot pain as he collapsed onto the ground. His vision fluttered in and out of focus, but there was nothing more than the raw, searing agony coursing through his veins, clawing at his consciousness like a savage beast determined to tear him apart. Every breath felt like a struggle, as if he dragged himself deeper into the abyss.He could feel Kaelen was behind him, the twisted power of the force flowing through the air like a suffocating cloud. The bastard was enjoying this, seeing him writhe in agony. Ethan clenched his fists, making himself breathe past the pain, his mind racing to clear itself. He had to fight. He couldn't fall apart now.His heart pounded within his chest as he struggled to crawl onto his hands and knees, the ground lurching with each thud. His limbs were heavy, made of lead, yet he couldn't let Kaelen win. No way. He couldn't let his loved ones fall because of his weakness.Through the haze of pain, he thought of Lysara. Th
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 42: Shattered Bonds
The world was silent.Ethan's heart thumped in his chest as the blinding light began to fade. His eyes were wide with panic as he scanned the destruction around him. Everything seemed suspended in time. The wind died, and even the trembling earth had stopped moving. There was no sound, no movement, except for the chaos in his mind.What had just happened?Where was Lysara?He didn't dare take even the briefest of breaths as he forced himself upright. His body was crying in exhaustion, every muscle protesting his steps, yet he made it work, the dizziness spiking inside him with his blurry vision from blood welling through a jagged tear at his temple. But none of that mattered.He couldn't waste one ounce of concentration on himself.He couldn't lower his defenses one step.Not now that Lysara's at risk.Lysara!"he yelled, his voice hoarse and urgent. He scanned the ruin around him, his heart beating in his head. But nothing. The power that had so fiercely danced between them was no mor
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 43: The Breaking Point
The world was chaos, a whirlwind of changing shadows and driving energy. Ethan's body ached with agony, every muscle screaming in protest as he tried to protect the one person that had come to mean everything in his life: Lysara.The air was heavy with tension as Kaelen's laughter echoed in the background, a sharp, cruel sound that seemed to rip through Ethan's very soul. It wasn't just a sound. It was a declaration. A victory.Or so Kaelen thought.Lysara's shape was faltering, her body shaking as if the act of standing was more than she could bear. The light that once burned so bright within her was dimming, flickering like a candle caught in a storm. Ethan's heart clenched at the sight, a sharp pang of desperation gnawing at him.He couldn't let this happen. He would not let her slip away."Lysara!" he cried again, this time his voice raw, despairing. He forced himself to push through the pain in his chest, Kaelen's dark magic still heavy with its weight to suffocate, and ran towar
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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
