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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 46: Storm of Darkness
The earth shook beneath Ethan's feet, a rumble that felt like the very foundation of the world itself was cracking open. The air around them was thick with an oppressive, suffocating energy that made it hard to breathe. His heart pounded in his chest, every beat a drum of war. But it was the voice that cut through the chaos, deep and resonant, that shook him to his core."It's not over, Ethan. Not by a long shot."The words vibrated through his skeleton, chilling him to the marrow. For a moment, the battlefield held its breath, the air thick and heavy with the sense that something was waiting for the storm to break. Then, the shadows stirred again, swirling around them like a hungry swarm, closing in with an unstoppable force.Ethan gritted his teeth as his body hummed with leftover power. This couldn't end like this. Lysara couldn't be allowed to succumb to the darkness.Lysara!"Ethan's voice cracked; his eyes locked on her, desperate. She stood there, still quivering. Her eyes flick
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 47: Ethan's Blood
The world was on fire.Ethan could feel the heat licking at his skin, the roar of the flames in the distance, but it wasn't fire that had him pinned to the ground. It wasn't even the storm of chaos swirling around him. No, it was Lysara. She stood at the center of the storm, her form a silhouette in the bright, searing light, a force of nature beyond his comprehension.And he couldn't get to her.The bar—the one that had just dropped him on the ground a moment before—remained in his mind. Invisible, a stronger force than he had ever met, a power so ancient and suffocating that his skin crawled at its mere thought.Lysara's eyes were wide with fear, her hands reaching out to him, but the power swirling around her kept them apart, keeping her just out of reach. Her once bright, fierce eyes were now clouded with an ominous darkness, the same darkness that had been creeping into their world ever since Kaelen had appeared.Ethan felt his heart pounding in his chest, trying to move upwards.
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 48: Shadows of Betrayal
The air was thick with tension, a storm building on the horizon, both in the skies and within Ethan’s chest. The pulsating power from the artifact coursed through his veins like wildfire, but there was no time to get lost in the intoxicating surge. No time for hesitation.Behind him, Lysara’s sharp breaths were audible, but even she wasn’t slowing down. She was ready for whatever came next because she knew the stakes. And so did Ethan.The forest was silent, eerily so, as if it were holding its breath. Every snap of a twig, every rustle of leaves felt magnified, the quiet before the inevitable storm. But Ethan wasn’t fooled. The monster the one who had caused all this destruction was still out there. He could feel it, like a shadow clinging to him, waiting for the moment to strike."Stay sharp," Lysara muttered, her sword gleaming in the moonlight as she scanned their surroundings.Ethan nodded, but his mind was elsewhere. His thoughts were swirling around the same question that had h
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 49: Unyielding Shadows
The night had become a battleground, the once peaceful forest now a landscape of destruction. Trees were torn from their roots, the air filled with the crackling of magical energy and the deafening roars of monsters. Ethan's heart thundered in his chest as he stared at the towering beast before him. Its eyes glowed a sickly green, the very air around it warping as if reality itself bent to its will.He could feel it; the creature's presence was suffocating, like a dark cloud settling over him. This wasn't just another monster. No, this was something worse. Something more ancient, more powerful.“You’re really going to fight this thing, aren’t you?” Lysara’s voice broke through his focus, sharp and filled with a mixture of disbelief and defiance. She stood beside him, her sword still glinting in the moonlight, but even she could sense the overwhelming danger.Ethan ground his teeth. "We have no choice." His voice was low, a growl of frustration bubbling up. The creature's massive form
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 50: Shadows of the Past
The beast was battered and bloodied but not defeated. A massive form writhing in the air, it was pulling from under Tanya as she pressed her hand against the chest of the creature, forcing it down. Dark energy radiating around the creature pulsed like a heartbeat and threatened to break free from Tanya's control.Ethan's heart pounded in his chest, his breath coming in sharp, ragged gasps. Tanya's appearance had completely thrown him off he hadn't expected her to be the one to save them. And yet, here she was, standing between them and certain death. It didn't make sense. Her power. It was like nothing he had ever felt before. It radiated from her like a storm, something primal, ancient.Why the hell are you doing this?"Lysara spat into the darkness, her sword still in hand, though she felt on edge because she had no idea who to trust.Tanya didn't say a word. She just kept her hand outstretched, eyes fixed on the creature writhing beneath her hold. Ethan could feel the tension in the
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 51: BLOOD AND SHADOWS
The eerie silence of the battlefield lingers. Wind howls through the broken trees.Darkness swallowed the world. Ethan's breath hitched as his vision blurred. The last thing he saw before the abyss claimed him was Lysara, her body flung through the air like a ragdoll, crashing into the rubble. And then nothing. Just black.A gasp tore from Ethan's mouth as he jackknifed upright. His head throbbed, his body screamed in pain, but the battlefield didn't care. The world was still burning. Lysara wasn't moving. The beast loomed above them, its grotesque form pulsating with unnatural energy, growing stronger. And in front of it—Tanya. Still standing. Still watching.TANYA (calm, but darkly amused):"You really don't know when to stay down, do you?"ETHAN (spits, voice raw with fury):"I should've known you weren't here to save us."Ethan stumbles forward, his fingers tightening around the artifact. It pulses, energy crackling like static.TANYA (mocking):"Save you? Ethan, I was only ever h
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 52: Blood of the Fallen
The air was heavy with the smell of blood and burning ash. Ethan forced himself to his feet, gasping for air, his eyes fixed on the monstrous form towering over him. The creature's mutated body pulsed with dark energy, feeding off the devastation it had wrought. Bodies lay strewn across the battlefield friends, enemies, all victims of this unrelenting nightmare.Ethan clenched his fists, feeling the artifact hum with energy. He could not fail now. Not when everything was on the line. Ethan shifted his gaze toward Lysara, who was barely standing, her blade slick with the blood of fallen enemies."Stay behind me!" Ethan barked, his voice hoarse from exhaustion.But Lysara was no blind follower. With a gleam in her eye, she pushed forward, her sword slicing out in a deadly arc. The creature let out a fury of roars as her blade bit into its flesh, sowing a flow of energy through its form. There, it stumbled but only for a moment.And then it struck back.One claw lashed out, the force of
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 53: Blood and Betrayal
The sound of heavy breathing and distant screams echoes in the background.The night was steeped in crimson. Smoke and embers writhed through the air, bringing the stench of charred flesh and fresh blood. Ethan stumbled forward, his muscles screaming, his fingers shaking around the artifact that throbbed with raw, untamed energy.A shadow loomed in the distance, a towering creature of malice, jagged limbs twitching with its feast on the scattered bodies across the battlefield. Ethan's heart pounded against his chest. He had to move. He had to survive.A low growl. A monstrous beast. LYSARA (panting, desperate):"Ethan! We can't let it get away! We end this. Now!"Ethan took a deep, labored breath, holding his sword tight. A bestial roar sends shockwaves through the ground.A flash of movement Lysara had run forward, her sword shining like a splinter of moonlight. The creature swung its monstrous head in her direction, the glow of its eyes burning with an unholy fire, and it struck.[
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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
Episode 170: Reaver’s Destruction
A still, black static climbed over the battlefield, thicker than tar, devouring the whispers of the dead.The stench of blood and burnt flesh filled the air.Ethan froze in place, breathing shallow, limbs still sore from his tussle with the Abyss Reaver.But his fatigue didn’t matter now.A much greater enemy had been born from the void.The person before him was still shrouded in shadows, golden eyes flickering like embers in darkness.The air bristled with malevolence, a suffocating weight crushing down on Ethan’s ribs.The voice from the void, smooth with malice, echoed in his head:“Join me, Ethan. You’ve started to embrace the darkness that lurks in your soul.”The knuckles of his fingers turned white as he gripped his sword.The fatigue, the lacerations, the burden of every painful conflict fought they didn’t matter.He had come so far, escaped death countless times.And he wasn’t about to stumble now.But before he could answer, the ground shook violently beneath him.A monstro
