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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 82: The Dark Awakening
Rain tapping faintly against broken windows, a cold wind blowing through the remains of a once-great building. The night is heavy, oppressive with the feeling of doom that is about to fall. The distant rumble of thunder is heard across the sky, a warning of the storm that is yet to come.The dust has settled. The battlefield is silent, except for the slow, steady drip of rainwater pooling in the cracks of the ruined stone floor. Ethan stands, his body battered but unbroken, his breath ragged in the cool air. Lysara lies beside him, her form still unconscious but breathing, the flicker of life a fragile thread he clings to. The battle with the strange enemy has ended. Yet in that sense of unease that gnaws at Ethan's heart, he feels that that is where the real war begins.But as the storm outside rages on, the shadows inside the ancient structure stir once again. Ethan's senses flare, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. He can feel the presence of something—no, someone n
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 83: The Ascension of the Eternal Night
A crackling fire burns in the background, the flames flickering and casting eerie shadows across the crumbled stone walls. The cold wind howls outside, a storm raging beyond the confines of the sanctuary. The air is thick with tension, and Ethan's breath comes in sharp, controlled gasps, his body still bruised from the last battle. There's still the pound of rain on the roof, but this time around, with something different an aura of ominousness that sticks to the night.The silence after the battle is overpowering. Ethan stands over Lysara, observing her, his eyes full of worry as she stirs to regain consciousness. His heart quickens as he watches her eyelids flutter open, but something is more: something darker moving ever closer on the horizon. The enemy they had just vanquished was only a herald. True darkness that Ethan feels moving ever closer is far worse.Lysara’s voice breaks through the silence, weak but still filled with that familiar strength.LYSARA: (groggily, her voice a
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 84: The Unseen King
The wind is howling through the ruins of the sanctuary, and the air is heavy with the after-effects of the destructive energy of the battle. The air crackles with the last vestiges of the Herald's power, but a new presence, far more ominous, starts to fill the void. Ethan breaks the silence with his strained breathing, his body still battered from the previous clash. He clenches his fist on the sword's hilt, its blade now a pale ember of magical fire. At his side, Lysara stands white but resolute.The narrator continues, "The air was still, but something stirred below the surface. Ethan's heart was racingnot from exhaustion but from the feeling of an impending doom far worse than any enemy he had faced before. It was a presence, unseen but palpable. It was ancient. It was powerful. And it was getting closer.Ethan's thoughts were scattered. His pulse throbbed in his ears as he glanced over at Lysara, his gaze flickering with concern.ETHAN: (breathing heavy, voice low) "Lysara, someth
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 85: Unseen King
A soft, eerie hum fills the air as the air calms once more after the fight in the previous battle. Ethan lies on the stone floor, with shallow breaths rising and falling from his chest. A faint whisper of wind echoes against the broken remains of the sanctuary, where Lysara kneels beside him, her hand still trembling as it rests on his face.He didn't say a thing after that," Ethan later recalled. The battle with the Unseen King had left its mark—on the world, on Ethan, and on the fragile thread that bound him and Lysara together. The weight of the fight pressed in, heavy, in the silence that stretched between them. The storm had passed, but something was wrong. The air felt still and empty.Lysara's eyes flutter nervously, scanning their surroundings, senses heightened. She knows that the danger has not passed yet. The fight with the Unseen King may be done, but the world is very far from safe. Ethan's power, overwhelming as it may be, cannot be infinite. And the enemies lurking in t
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 86: Shadows Reborn
Fading away the echoes of the last battle in eerie silence. The wind howls through the ruined sanctuary, whispering through the cracks like ghosts.The fight against the Nightlord was over, but the war was just getting started. The warmth of dawn barely caressed the broken rubble of a sanctuary where Ethan and Lysara stood, battered and spent. The air was choked with the smell of burnt shadows and something far worse—a presence that hadn't left yet.Faint footsteps approach. A blade scrapes against stone. A faint growl echoes through the ruins.ETHAN"Lysara… We must go. Something else approaches."LYSARA"We hardly survived the Nightlord. And if something far worse exists beyond this, Ethan, you're injured."The earth groans, heavy, guttural laughter rips through the air. Shadows unfurl like sinuous things and creep towards them.???"Ah… the Nightlord was but a shard of the darkness. Did you think his defeat would be the end of it? No… you have merely cleared the path for something
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 87: Shadow's
The distant sound of wind howling through shattered ruins, faint embers crackling in the aftermath of the battle. A heavy silence lingers before a slow, rhythmic sound of footsteps echoes in the darkness."The dawn had barely broken when the echoes of their battle began to fade. The Nightlord was vanquished, but his demise had left an emptiness, a void that the darkness itself sought to reclaim. Ethan and Lysara barely stood amidst the wreckage, breathless, weary… unaware that something far worse was stirring beneath their feet."A low guttural growl throbs from beneath the broken sanctuary floor, and then the crack of stone moving as if its face cracks. The air's tense.Lysara (her voice trembles but steady determination): "Ethan… do you feel that? Something is.The ground splits apart violently with a thunderous crack. From the abyss, a monstrous entity rises a towering figure clad in obsidian armor, tendrils of shadow writhing like serpents. Its eyes burn with an unholy, crimson gl
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 88: Breathless
The echo of dripping water recedes into the distance. In the air hangs an unsettling charged feeling. Hums in silence.In a very ominous tone with grave"The morning after the night before, Ethan and Lysara arose from the dust of their triumph, the embers of Nightlord extinguished by the wind. But such glass that is forged by peace was not meant to shatter so easily. The abyss had other designs.Thudding footsteps. A monstrous, inhuman growling sound echoes within the hollow sanctuary.LYSARA"Ethan, don't tell me you're hearing that. Tell me it can't be"ETHAN"I hear it. And I feel it. Something's coming. Something worse."The ground shudders, splitting beneath them as black mist rises from the depths. Shadows coil like living serpents, twisting and writhing into form."From the fissures of reality, it emerged. Not a beast. Not a man. But a force, a sentient calamity older than time itself. The Abyssal Warden, harbinger of annihilation."A distorted, eldritch voice echoes, layered w
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) EPISODE 89: THE SHADOWED RECKONING
Darkness again falls over the broken world. The ripples of their last battle still shake the ruins, but peace is never more than an illusion. Ethan and Lysara stand at the precipice of another storm, unaware that an even greater threat lurks in the abyss, waiting… watching… ready to strike. The distant rumble of thunder. Ember crackles from the rubble. A cold wind whispers through shattered stone.) SCENE OPENS SHEPHERD'S FALL, A DESECRATED CITY Boots crunching through gravel. A distant, eerie hum fills the air.LYSARA"Ethan… we need to move. The air… it feels wrong. Like something's watching us." ETHAN"I know. But… I can barely stand." Ethan stumbles, barely catching himself. LYSARA"Then lean on me. We don't have time to rest. If we stay here, we're as good as dead." Lysara pulling Ethan up. The shuffling of feet. A distant screech echoes through the air. But even as they stagger forward, fate has already sealed their path. The night is not empty. And something no, someone s
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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
