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Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 100: The Rise of the Fallen
Time itself seemed to slow around Ethan. The air around him was heavy with the inevitability of doom. The Unseen, its massive jaws clamping now tight around his form, squeezed with a force that would not let go. Darkness surrounded him; it stayed on top of him, suffocating him in its grip. Pain shot through his body as the creature's teeth dug deeper, threatening to crush him to oblivion. But even now, when all seemed lost, one thought shone in his mind like a burning flame, eternal: I won't give up.His vision blurred, the pain intensifying, but in the depths of his despair, something within him began to stir. The summoning energy his power had been drained almost completely, but it was still there, pulsing deep inside him, waiting. He had always known that it was more than just a tool it was a part of him. A reflection of his will.Ethan's eyes snapped open. His breath came in sharp gasps, and despite the crushing darkness around him, he focused. He wouldn't die here. Not like this.
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 101: The Abyss Unleashed
The battlefield was silent once again, but this silence was not peaceful. It was the calm before the storm. Ethan’s heart thundered in his chest as he stood at the edge of the rift, his sword raised, its light flickering in the oppressive darkness that had consumed the sky. The air itself seemed to warp, bending around the ominous force that now loomed above them.The presence from the rift was no longer an unseen force it was manifesting before their very eyes. From the depths of the darkness, a shadow began to take shape, an entity so vast and terrifying that it seemed to tear at the very fabric of reality itself. It was a creature that defied description, its form constantly shifting, as though it existed in multiple dimensions at once. Its eyes, if they could even be called eyes, burned with an infernal light, casting an eerie glow over the shattered earth.The architect stood before the rift, his arms raised in triumph, his expression twisted in a deranged smile. “This is the tru
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 102: The Abyssal Heart
The mighty roar from the rift shook the earth, a tremor so strong it seemed the very ground beneath their feet rippled beneath their strides. Ethan's heart pounded in his chest as his sword drank in that primordial energy, his hand struggling to keep up with the force of the Fallen King's grip. The darkness around him was crushing, but Lysara's divine light, now embracing him, brought the shadows back inch by inch."You cannot defeat me," the Fallen King hissed, its voice a monstrous rasp that echoed through the air like a thousand whispers. Its eyes gleamed with malice as it tightened its hold on Ethan, lifting him from the ground as if he were nothing more than a puppet. "You are weak. All of you are weak."But even as the Fallen King’s oppressive force bore down on him, Ethan refused to give in. His eyes locked with Lysara’s, the unspoken understanding between them clear. She was not backing down, not now, not when they were this close. She channeled her magic through her staff, th
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 103: The Stand
The world was crumbling down.Ethan's feet pounded against the decaying earth as the rift above him roared with unstoppable force. The Archfiend loomed over him, its huge wings flicking the air with deadly precision, and its claws scraped against the land with destructive power. Every movement it made sent shockwaves through the battlefield, rattling the ground beneath them.But Ethan had no time to hesitate. He had no time to think about what he was up against. His only thought was forward to stop it.The Heart of the Abyss pulsed violently from the rift, sending tendrils of sickly energy spiraling into the Archfiend, strengthening it further. Ethan could feel the immense pressure building around him, a suffocating weight that threatened to crush him with every breath. But as the creature's claws slashed toward him, Ethan's resolve only hardened."I won't let you destroy this world!" Ethan shouted, raising his sword high.With every ounce of strength he could exert, he propelled hims
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 104: The One Who Rules Over
The air reeked with a burning stench of earth as the ground was pounded with an earthquake response. The stones crumbling above him gave off echoes, and above the battlefield the large rift over Ethan pulsed its energy in constant waves, bending the very sky as it rent itself in half.Ethan stood frozen, his heart still racing, and the sword remained glowing with all the combined energy of the Phoenix and his summons. Slowly, the monstrous figure before him began to coalesce. Like nothing he'd ever seen in his life before, it rose up a great figure, sheathed in armored shadows, edged with dark energies, and those eyes, well, they pulsed with unholy light and seemed to dig into Ethan's very soul like a sharp iron rod.A deep, rumbling voice, colder than ice, echoed across the battlefield. "So, the child thinks he can end the Abyss. Foolish. The true master of the Abyss has arrived.The figure raised a gauntleted hand, and the rift responded. The world around them let out a deafening ca
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 105: The Tension
The earth shook as Ethan and the dragon thrust forward, their combined strength smashing into the towering figure of Daelon. Energy shot outward in shockwaves, tearing at the battlefield like a cacophony of power. The flames of the Phoenix clashed with the tendrils of darkness surrounding Daelon, and for one instant, the Abyssal master faltered. His titanic form shuddered.Ethan’s heart raced, the energy coursing through his veins pushing him beyond his limits. He could feel the Phoenix’s power flooding into him, amplifying his strength, but even that wasn’t enough. Daelon’s form was recovering too quickly, his dark energy surging and weaving around him like an impenetrable barrier.“You think you’ve won, child?” Daelon’s voice came, distorted by the power of the rift. It echoed with a deep, oppressive resonance, the tone dripping with malevolent amusement. “You think your fleeting power can defeat the Abyss itself?”Ethan's grip on his blade whitened as he came to face the monstrosit
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 106: The Shadow's Awakening
The battlefield was a maelstrom of chaos. The earth trembled beneath the force of the clash between Daelon's dark energy and the Phoenix's fiery inferno. The world itself seemed to buckle and bend, as if reality were being twisted apart by the sheer power of their battle. But amidst the chaos, something far darker had stirred.Ethan's vision blurred as the energy from the flames of the Phoenix coursed through him. His body was on the verge of collapse, his strength fading with every passing second. The fire that once burned bright around him now flickered weakly, a fading ember in the face of Daelon's relentless dark surge.Then, in the midst of the storm, a crack echoed through the air.It wasn't merely the sound of battle; it was the shattering of some kind of divide, something long pent that contained a force beyond anything they faced.Out of the split in the air above, a shape took form. Colossal, it stretched down over them like a darkness given flesh, and in eyes burning with t
Rise of the Tamer ( Bound by the Beast) Episode 107: The Terror Rises
The tear in the sky thrummed with dark energy, its mouth wide open, devouring the very fabric of reality. The battlefield was a war zone, consumed by the clash of light and shadow, each pulse of energy threatening to obliterate everything in its path. Ethan's heart was racing, his breath labored from the immense strain of the battle. The fire of the Phoenix still surrounded him, but even its fiery brilliance felt like a flicker in the overwhelming darkness. Daelon's laughter echoed through the battlefield, mocking the efforts of all those who dared to oppose him."You cannot hide from the Abyss, Ethan. It is inevitable." Daelon's voice rumbled through the chaos, his figure shifting within the shadow, a force of malice and darkness that could not be fully seen.But then, within the tension, the earth shook again.Something was coalescing from the crack something even blacker than the Abyss itself. The air became cold, suffocating, like the very life had been drained from it. Ethan's he
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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
