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Tides Of Eternity Chapter 132: The Abyss Takes Its Due
Kaiza had seen monsters.He had fought the Hollow King. He had battled the Forgotten Lords. He had experienced visions that tore the illusion of reality.But this?This was worse.The First Hunger now loomed before him, a beast so ancient and cracked that it had forgotten all its own particulars but one final urge.To devour.The First Hunger itself, it appeared, had been rejected by reality, as the temple teetered and quaked and cracks yawned across the sky.Kaiza’s breathing was sharp and quick, his mind still revolving with shock from the visions the blacksmith at the crux had thrust into him. The sigil he’d touched still burned him as it had etched into his skin, and his chest was hot with his memories of being so close to him.But none of that mattered.Not right now.That was because Soryn was kneeling on the ground, trembling, her golden eyes aglow with something built out of the mortal plane, something dark.The Abyss had marked her.And Kaiza did not know whether he could bri
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 133: The Abyss Unleashed
The world shattered.Kaiza felt it happen: a deep, unnatural rupture, as though something had reached through reality itself and peeled it like rotten flesh.Above them, the sky was gone.Not darkness.Not storm clouds.Just absence.Some void of black where the sky should have been, stretching into sporadic nothingness, eating away at the remainder of the world.And from that emptiness, the Abyss bled into reality.Not slowly. Not like creeping tendrils.It came like a tidal wave.A flood blackened, writhing, curling its way through the ruins like snakes made of hunger.It was this instant provocation, however, that Kaiza barely had time to react to before the earth trembled beneath his feet, the entirety of the temple giving way to the weight of something unseen.His heartbeat pounded in his ears.Because he understood what the hell this was.This was not simply the First Hunger.This was the Abyss itself.And it could no longer be content to lurk in the shadows.Soryn’s Transformat
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 134: The Abyss Watches
The world was dying.The temple had vanished, swallowed by the endless black sea below them. The sky, if it could be called that anymore, was a writhing, formless void, throbbing as though it were an organism, exuding hunger into the atmosphere.Kaiza was at the edge of the destruction, and his body ached with something new, something wrong.Something hungry.From the moment he had removed the Abyss from Soryn and inserted it into himself, everything had shifted.He could feel it now.A pressure on his mind. A voice whispering in a tongue he didn’t speak but which he somehow knew.He was marked by The Abyss long ago.But now it had finally accepted him.And that scared him more than anything.Soryn was gasping at his side, still exhausted from recent events. But her golden eyes, clear again, not touched by corruption, were fixed on him, sharp and assessing.She knew.She could see it in him.And she was waiting to find out what he would do next.The Harbinger lingered further back, hi
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 135: The Shadow Gambit
Duskfall had never been a quiet place.Even in the dead of night, it breathed with danger, whispers in shadowy alleyways, steel pulled in the flicker of lantern light.And Kael walked right into it tonight.The Hollow Lords had made their move.Now, it was his turn.Smoke still spiraled off the ruins of the watchtower behind them. Blood seeped into Kael’s sleeve, mixing with the agony thrumming in his shoulder.Ronan had stood overhead, watching, before disappearing into the night.Mocking him.Daring him to strike first.Kael clenched his fists.Fine.He would.Selene cleaned her daggers and stepped to his side. “So, great leader, what’s next? ”Dain rolled his shoulders. “And then if you call it ‘another ambush,’ I swear by all the gods.”Kael ignored them. His silver eyes raked the crumbling rooftops in front of him.The Hollow Lords were more than just assassins.They were the architects of power.And if they thought that Kael was simply going to sit and wait for them to come for h
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 136: A Realm of Blades
The Price of FireThe Black Spire still burned.Smoke billowed through the sky, wrapping along the rooftops of Duskfall like the last gasp of a dying god. The fire had devoured it all: the Hollow Lords’ secret ledgers, their armories, their painstakingly woven lies.But not Ronan.Kael wiped blood from his mouth, his breath sharp and ragged. His ribs throbbed where Ronan’s blade had struck flesh, the wound shallow but persistent. A reminder that he hadn’t managed to stop this.Dain stood by the stone parapet, watching the flames climb. “Well. That was fun.”Selene sheathed her daggers. “Not the word I’d use.”Kael exhaled slowly. The Hollow Lords had suspected he would be impulsive.But they were not counting on him to reduce their stronghold to ashes.Still, something felt wrong.Too easy.Too.There was a noise in the darkness.A horn.Low. Echoing.Kael’s stomach tightened.Selene frowned. “That’s not a city watch signal.Dain’s hand fell to his sword. “No. That’s a war call.”Kael’
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 137: The War Against the Abyss
Kaiza’s blade penetrated the First Hunger, and for the first time it reacted.Not by vanishing.Not by brushing off the attack as if it were nothing.It reeled back.Its black mass of a body quivered, its hollow face twisting, shifting, trying to make sense of everything that had just happened.Kaiza didn’t hesitate.He shifted again, faster than thought, faster than he had ever done, his sword a streak of black flame as it cut through the formless creature once more.The Abyss had attempted to transform him into its weapon.But he wasn’t going to be exploited.Not by them.Not by anyone.The First Hunger writhed like a living thing, its shape distorting, fracturing like a mirror turned to shards.Kaiza grinned.“Now, not so untouchable, either, right?Then.The world collapsed.The sky screamed.As soon as the First Hunger was touched, the Abyss responded: the air around them rippling like the surface of water, space folding over itself like living tissue.Kaiza had no sooner caught h
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 138: City of Hollows Calls
Kaiza stepped forward.As soon as his foot crossed the threshold of the Hollow City, the air was gone.Not the wind. Not the temperature.But air itself.Sound faded, the very weight of reality warping as though space itself had bent in order to allow him entry.The ruins behind him, the battlefield, Soryn, the Harbinger, the First Hunger faded like a dream lost in waking.And the Hollow City embraced him home.An immense, infinite sprawl of gnarled towers, streets that went nowhere and everywhere, and a sky that wasn’t a sky at all.It was alive.Watching.Waiting.Kaiza breathed shallow and slow, his senses taut, his body wound.Because he had done this before.Not in visions.Not in nightmares.But in another life.Which the Abyss was making him relive.And this time there would be no turning back.“Son of a whore,” Soryn swore viciously as Kaiza disappeared from sight.Just a moment before, he’d been standing right there.Then he was gone.No sound. No trace.As if the Hollow City
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 139: The Throne That Devours
Kaiza was at the edge of something definitive.The Hollow Throne hung before him, throbbing with the latent force that a ruler had not tasted in forever. Abyssal energy crackled around him, dancing in the air, twisting and writhing like some living creature, waiting for him to choose.The shadowed Kaiza struggled behind him, the form flickering in and out of existence.It was dying.Not from wounds.But because it had been rejected by Kaiza.This was no ordinary battle.It was a war for identity.And Kaiza was winning.But the Hollow City had yet more in store for him.As his fingers brushed the throne’s armrest, the city responded.The streets buckled and twisted, the ruined towers crumbled, and walls cracked open to display the endless emptiness beneath them.It was alive.And it was hungry.Kaiza’s chest tightened.Five hundred years fighting the Abyss.Now, it wanted him to ascend its throne.And the worst part?It was tempting."Take your place."The shadowed Kaiza’s voice was qui
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Chapter 149: The End of the Rewrite
The stars had come back.But peace, Kaiza understood, was not always quiet. It was a tension—the quiet after a storm, the stillness after a scream, full of everything left unspoken.He stood at the boundary of memory.Though his body had been erased from the world, his mind was still anchored, resonating like an old melody in the Archive Between Worlds, the place where stories were never spoken, where truths too hazardous to be remembered were kept.And in its changing halls of golden filaments and ash-hued stone, Kaiza roamed. Not lost. Not captive. But seeking.For the past had not yet released him.Mount Umbra. Years before the end.The Shadowborne children were taught to never flinch.Kaiza recalled the sting of snow searing across his naked toes at initiation. A knife in his fist. A mask upon his eyes. His father's voice, ice as black stone:"Loyalty is not love. It is law."They grew up in silence, taught to dominate a dozen kills before their thirteenth name-day. Feelings were v
Chapter 148:The War of Existence
The sky was torn apart.Not like an explosion.Not like thunder.But like the very fabric of sound itself, it ripped asunder.Kaiza didn't even have the moment to blink before the entity shifted.Not with power.Not with speed.But with absolute, mindless inevitability.It didn't attack in the sense that an enemy would.It redefined the battlefield.In one instantKaiza was standing on solid earth.He was tumbling into a chasm of shattered timelines, each one splintering away like delicate glass.His golden flames flickered, fighting against the force pulling him down.He froze.Not because he caught himself.Not because he landed.Because the entity demanded it.Kaiza growled."You think you can control me?"The entity's voice surrounded him."I already do."And thenThe world crumbled.Kaiza balled his fists as the rules of reality warped around him.The entity's golden-black fire engulfed everything.Shredding the battlefield, reforming it in real-time.The sky turned into an ocean
Chapter 147: The Collapse of Reality
The sky tore apart.Not like lightning.Not like a storm.Like glass breaking.The Hollow City shattered, shattering into a thousand reflective shards, each one revealing a different possibility.Some revealed Kaiza triumphant, golden flames in his grasp, the entity dissolving to dust.Others revealed Kaiza was gone, nothing but a memory of what had been.But the worst onesThe ones that made his chest constrictRevealed the world lost.Not destroyed.Never having been at all.The thing moved first.One moment, it stood before him.Next, it was all around him.A dozen forms of itself blurred in and out of existence, attacking from various directions simultaneously.Each sword is pointing for Kaiza's heart.But Kaiza didn't even blink.He didn't need to react.Because nowHe knew the game."You don't get to decide anymore."Kaiza reached out with his will, his mind, his very soul.And reality listened.In an instantEvery version of the entity vanished.Not because Kaiza dodged.Not bec
Chapter 146: The War of Unmaking
The world ended.Not in flames.Not in ruin.In nothingness.The streets of the Hollow City disappeared.The sky overhead ceased to exist.The air itself wavering, as if a memory attempting to remember its own presence.Kaiza alone in the center of it all a solitary figure against an adversary that was not meant to exist.His golden eyes ablaze.But for the first time everHe wasn't certain if he existed anymore.The figure in front of him his distorted reflection grinned."You're beginning to comprehend, aren't you?"Kaiza clutched his sword tighter."I comprehend that you speak too damn much."The figure chuckled."Like a man who doesn't know he's already lost."And thenIt moved.Kaiza had barely enough time to respond.The instant the entity charged, the very fabric of reality unraveled.Not with force.Not with power.With certainty.Wherever the entity stepped, the world no longer was.The Hollow City disappeared in patches, chunks of buildings, strips of sky—all vanishing in a
Chapter 145: A King Without a Throne
For the first time in five centuries, the Hollow City was silent.No screaming.No war.No whispering darkness hiding in the cracks of reality.Kaiza stood in the middle of it all free.The Abyss was gone.Not locked away.Not hiding in the shadows.Gone.He had done the impossible.He had rejected it.Not by fighting it.Not by dominating it.But by letting go.And yet something did not feel right.Kaiza let out a sharp breath, rolling his shoulders.His body felt lighter.As if he had lost something he had carried around for so long that he didn't even know what it felt like to not have it.The Abyss had been integrated into his very being.And now, without it…Who was he?Kaiza tightened his fists."Is this what freedom is meant to feel like?"Because it didn't feel good.It felt empty.Like he had been opened up and something had been torn out.Something that, terrible as it was, had at least been a part of him.Kaiza's golden eyes blazed, but there was no abyssal fire burning in
Chapter 144: When Titans Collide
A howl of unleashed darkness erupted from under the Hollow City.The earth cleaved open, a torn edge slashing through stone, spewing out coils of abyssal flame into the air.And out of that tear something stirs.Something immense.Something ancient.Kaiza stood upon the ruined battlefield, his gold eyes fixed on the churning whirlpool of darkness that had burst forth from his own blow.He'd done it.He'd awakened the Abyss.And now he had to make it through."Every last one of you, move!" Kaiza bellowed.But it was already too late.A brutal shockwave erupted outward, shattering the Hollow City and leveling buildings to rubble.The air itself cracked, reality fighting to maintain its shape as the Abyss awakened from its deep sleep.The sky contorted, folding in upon itself, and Kaiza could sense it.The Abyss was hungry.And it had waited too long.The First Hunger awakened.The impossibly huge hand, black and smeared with shifting constellations of void, faltered for the first time.
Chapter 145: The Choice That Ends a Kingdom
Kaiza's breathing came sharp and jagged.His fingers were constricted around the wrist of his other self, the King of the Hollow City.The battle's weight still resonated in his bones, his muscles crying out from the fight, which had transcended time itself.And yet he did not attack.The king sneered, golden eyes flashing with dark pleasure."What's wrong?""This is what you wanted, isn't it?"Kaiza's hold grew tighter.He could finish it now.A single strike. A single cut.Erase this alternate version of himself.Reclaim the Hollow City as his own.But the longer he stared into his own twisted reflection, the clearer it became.This wasn’t just about a throne.This was about who he would become."Damn it."His golden eyes flashed."I’m not you."And that was the moment he made his choice.A King Must FallKaiza let go.The king swayed a little, his sneer failing for the first time."What?"Kaiza took a step back, sheathing his sword."I don't need to kill you to win."The throne room
Chapter 144: The War of Kings
Kaiza stumbled forward, his breathing labored, his heart pounding in his ears.The Hollow City lay before him, but it was not the same Hollow City he remembered.It was unmarred by war.The towers rose high, spires reaching into a moonlit sky that should not be.The streets were spotless, thronged with moving people walking, speaking, and living.For an instant, Kaiza couldn't catch his breath.This was impossible.It had never been true.It had never been anything more than a dream."And yet here I am."A weight, heavy as lead, dropped into his chest.He had rewritten destiny.The Abyss had never swallowed this city.The Hunters had never been forgotten.And he had never turned into a monster.Kaiza let out a harsh breath, raking a hand through his dark, sweat-matted hair."So what the hell do we do now?"The Harbinger's Warning"Kaiza."The voice was low, even.He turned to glance at the Harbinger, who stood a few steps behind him, silver eyes acute, expressionless.He hadn't budged
Chapter 143: A War Against the Unwritten
The darkness engulfed Kaiza entirely.In one instant, he stood before his previous self, the Hollow City intact, reality itself refusing to believe that history had been altered.The next.He was plummeting.Not bodily.Not through air, or chronology, or even the Abyss.But through something deeper.Something older.Something that should not exist.Something that had waited.And at its center something watched.Kaiza's body struck solid earth, but it felt nothing like the real world.The sky, or what passed for a sky, was a chasm of writhing shapes and wisps.The air tasted too thick, weighing upon him like a thousand invisible fingers.He pushed himself up, his golden eyes furrowing as he turned.And then.He saw it.The figure.It stood where his former self had once stood, regarding him with a look that belonged to no living thing.Kaiza had battled gods.He had fought the Abyss.He had witnessed things without a name.But this.This thing was wrong.Not as the Abyss was.Not as the