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KaizaAnd then, the silence. Deafening. For a moment, it seemed as though the whole world had been halted abruptly, violently. But in the blackness, something moved. A whisper, soft and insistent, echoed in Kaiza's mind. "You are not alone."
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Tides Of Eternity Episode 22: The Waking Abyss
The air around Kaiza was oppressive, a deadly oppression that clung to his skin, trying to choke the air from him. The cold numbed everything: even his senses, which began trying to cooperate when he attempted to move.His body weighed heavier than ever. He felt like he was sinking into the abyss. He was blind; everything was black, a void that swallowed him whole.Mina. He had to find Mina.A sharp, searing pain shot through his side, snapping him out of the suffocating blackness. His mind struggled to focus, the adrenaline from the battle still coursing through his veins.The sharp taste of blood filled his mouth as he coughed weakly, his hand instinctively reaching for his side where the creature's claws had torn through his flesh. He could feel the warmth of his own blood, sticky and cold against his skin.Kaiza. Kaiza!"Mina's voice distant, fragile cut through the darkness like a beacon, drawing him back to the surface. His pulse jumped at the sound, his hand quivering as he rea
Tides Of Eternity Episode 23: The Price of Immortality
The moon was low in the sky, casting a pale glow across the ravaged landscape. Kaiza's breath came in sharp, strained gasps as he stumbled through the desolate wilderness. Every step was agony, his body still trembling from the brutal fight with the creature in the cavern.The pain from the gash in his side throbbed with each movement, but it was nothing compared to the weight that pressed down on his soul.Mina walked beside him, her face pale, eyes haunted by the horrors they had just endured. She had been strong throughout the battle, her resolve unwavering, but Kaiza could see the fear in her eyes now, the shadows of their journey creeping into her soul."You don't have to keep going, you know," Kaiza said, his voice rough, almost a whisper. He hadn't meant to say it, but the words spilled out before he could stop them. "We can turn back. You don't have to do this anymore."Mina didn't respond. She kept walking, her eyes forward, fixed on the dark horizon as if she saw something b
Tides Of Eternity Episode 24: Oppressive Energy
All the world about Kaiza and Mina appeared to melt away into darkness; it was as though the air had grown charged to an intensity neither of them could have ever dreamed existed.The earth beneath their feet was unstable and shifting, dragging them toward the center of a chasm opened before them. Kaiza's chest tightened, his breath getting short as black tendrils of shadow wrapped about his limbs and pulled him deep into the darkness.He could hear Mina’s voice, frantic and strained, but the words were muffled by the overwhelming force that was dragging them downward."Mina!" Kaiza shouted, his voice barely reaching her as the shadows closed in, suffocating the space between them. He reached out, but her form was becoming a blur, disappearing into the dark.The further they descended, the more the shadows twisted, each movement like a living thing, suffused with a hunger that made his skin crawl.His breath came in ragged gasps, each inhale thick with the oppressive energy pressing i
Tides Of Eternity Episode 25: The Crucible of Shadows
Kaiza’s mind was a blur as the darkness consumed him. His senses were overwhelmed by the oppressive weight of the void, and yet, despite the overwhelming silence, he could still feel it a presence, watching, waiting.Every fiber of his being screamed for him to move, to find Mina, to escape this nightmare, but his body refused to obey. He was trapped, suffocating in the very air that had once seemed to promise a way out.His chest heaved in desperation as the darkness pressed in tighter, but then something changed. A flicker of light pierced the oppressive blackness, barely visible at first, but then growing steadily brighter, blinding in its intensity.For a fleeting moment, Kaiza wondered if he was dreaming or if he had already crossed into some other realm.The light grew brighter, pulling at him, tugging at him as if by an invisible thread. Slowly, painfully, Kaiza felt himself moving toward it, though his limbs felt leaden. Every step he took seemed to take every last bit of ener
Tides Of Eternity Episode 26: Despair
Kaiza’s heart thundered in his chest as he plummeted deeper into the abyss, his body weightless and helpless. The world above him vanished, swallowed by a darkness that stretched endlessly, suffocating him. His mind screamed for clarity, for control, but nothing came. He was trapped in a nightmare—no different from the one he had been living for centuries.He had scattered thoughts and memories of agony clashing inside his head. Mina. Her anguished face when the darkness ravaged her. The light, which had flickered so brightly before, was suffocated. No… I can't lose her. I won't.As he fell, the cold emptiness of the abyss seemed to stretch forever. His breath caught in his throat, and the weight of helplessness pressed down on him. He had fought for so long, clawed his way through centuries of torment, but now, in this moment, it felt as if everything had been for nothing. The curse—the very thing he had been running from was here. It was closing in, and it had Mina.The pounding of
Tides Of Eternity Episode 27: The Edge of Oblivion
Kaiza's heart pounded as darkness consumed him whole. He had been here before, in this suffocating place where nothing made sense and every step plunged deeper into a void threatening to swallow him whole. This time, it was different. He was not alone.Mina. Still, he sensed her presence within him, but he couldn't see her face. It's a thin and faint line that shines like dying stars in eternal darkness. This is where one could sense it: the fearful confusion, mixed with most acute pain and anguish. Everything inside of his chest churns with every one of his pulses, reminding him of what was to happen.He did not want to lose her not again."Mina!" he cried, his voice husky, and staggered forward through the dark. His whole nature urged him on, told him to rush free from this terrible gloom that oppressed him; but it clung to him, alive as some slimy animal, its wet embrace closing around his knees, dragging him back. It was not only the curse that was upon him that did this—it was th
Tides Of Eternity Episode 28: The Blast
Kaiza's world was a blur of darkness and chaos. He had been swallowed by the crack in the ground, and now the weight of the darkness seemed to be bearing down on him like an inevitable force. Breath came in short gasps. His body was sore from the fall, each muscle screaming with protest, yet he did not stop. He could not.His mind was racing, desperate to grasp some semblance of control in the overwhelming nothingness around him. He had fallen deep into a place far worse than the shadows he had already endured. His pulse thundered in his ears, drowning out everything else, until the only thing he could focus on was one single, burning thought.Mina.She was out there. Somewhere.He could feel her. Her was like a cord pulling him forward through the vise-like absence. Even in this place of hell, even now, he could feel her fear and pain. Alive. But how long? Just how much further could he draw her back when whatever evil lingered in that darkness devoured her whole?He pushed himself t
Tides Of Eternity Episode 29: Shattered Illusions
The blinding light engulfs Kaiza, overwhelming his senses, burning his eyes and his throat as he manages a desperate gasp for air. He feels himself being pulled in all directions as if the fabric of reality is ripping apart. He can hear the growl of the creature, far away now. A growl almost of frustration and disbelief. But one thing holds firm amidst the chaos.Mina.It was as if a thread was threaded through the light itself, drawing him toward her. Every cell in his body screamed to move in that direction, to sprint toward her and keep her from whatever horrors were waiting for them both.But the light was growing, expanding, a blinding, celestial force threatening to consume everything in its path. Kaiza's heart thundered in his chest. Was this the end? Had he failed her already? The light pulsed around him like the beat of a heart, and he was caught in its rhythm—too weak to resist, yet too determined to let go.Then, with a sudden shift, the light faded. The world around him sn
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Chapter 111: The Unseen Devourer
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The sky split open.Not a crack, not a tear a WOUND.Reality itself screamed through jagged fractures slicing the Hollow City’s abyssal skyline.The eddying darkness distorted, pulling apart at the frayed edges, spiraling into something worse.Kaiza sensed it before he saw it.A pulse. Not of abyssal energy, not of flame, but something else. Something older than both.And it came from Mina.She was close.Her presence seared his senses, unrefined and unrefined. But something was off.Something within her that’s not supposed to exist.Kaiza gingerly gritted his teeth and sat despite himself.His body objected, the Judicator’s wound still gnawing on his being, but that was irrelevant.Nothing else mattered but reaching Mina.The Hollow King had stood from his throne.His golden gaze raged, but for the first time, it wasn’t trained on Kaiza.Their eyes were fixed on the fractured sky.On her."Impossible." The Hollow King’s quiet voice took on something, not amusement this time.Not with
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Kaiza had little time to react.The blade arrived faster than was thought possible a silver line, a ribbon of flame and destruction, splitting the air. His instinct screamed to move, but his body, still bruised and raw from the chasm, was too slow.A stabbing pain detonated in his side as the edge of the blade tore flesh, the impact slamming him down onto the vibrating black streets. Blood spattered in all directions, sizzling against the living ground on impact.Not abyssal. Not shadow-forged. Something else.Kaiza ground his teeth, his breaths harsh and erratic as he shoved himself upright, glaring at his assailant.And there they stood.A gauzy figure, draped in silver and fire, their form rippling in the half-light of the Hollow King’s domain. Their armor was not solid but fluid, shifting like seeping metal, pulsing with sinuous lines of deep crimson. As was their sword the weapon that had shredded him, tauntingly, bloodless of the same stuff, swinging between solid steel and liqu
Chapter 108: The Devouring
Silence.Thick. Absolutely.Not even breath, not even motion, not even time: just a vacuum.Kaiza fell through it.Or maybe he stood still as the rest of the world went on.He couldn't tell.There was no ground, no sky, no up, no down only the suffocating embrace of nothingness collapsing around him like a coffin lined with whispers.Mina was gone.The last thing he heard her make wrenched from her throat, guttural and pained, as the gullet of darkness devoured her.He had reached for her. Clawed at the darkness.But his fingers had encountered only empty space.And then Nothing.Now he floundered in that nothingness, the remnants of his corpse aching, the wounds raw and open.Where the masked figure had touched him, his chest still smoldered, as if something had been clawed out of him or ripped from him, something that was inside him and had been a piece of him, something vital.Was he dead?No. That would have been a mercy.A movement in the void something shifted.A shake, gentler
Chapter 107: Unleashed
The void roared.Black flames licked at the ground, devouring the creatures of the abyss as embers at the end of life are sent out upon the wind.The wails of the damned rampaged ever and ever, ringing in the desolate void, as the horror of noumenon mixed and knotted, their forms rotting in the gluttonous conn.And at the heart of it, standing in the inferno, was Mina.But she was no longer only Mina.Kaiza could hardly stand, his body bruised and bleeding, but his breath caught when he saw her.The fragility of the girl he had vowed to protect was gone.The trembling voice that had called his name in the dark was gone.What was left is something older. Something raw.Her form was still human in outline mostly but the air around her hummed with something worse than abyssal corruption.An ultraviolet light burned behind her eyes, cosmic and blistering, crowded with something incomprehensible to my feeble flesh.Her dark hair lashed in the wind, the energy circling her limbs, a moving t
Chapter 106: Dark
Kaiza barely had time to respond before the form of the abyssal entity washed over him like a tidal wave of pure void.It felt as though an avalanche of darkness was going to consume him whole.The shadows wound tighter, binding themselves around his limbs like living chains, burrowing into his skin and burning with cold fire; his ribs screamed their protest.A cough tore from his throat, thick and wet. Blood trickled down his lips, red on infinite black.His vision swam, fading in and out of consciousness, but his fingers still tightened around his sword.He wasn’t done. Not yet.The figure towered above him, the mask cocked slightly as if in amusement.“Still fighting?” Its voice gliding along, the sound of a thousand voices crawling into his skull.“Pathetic. “Your void does not give, Kaiza. It does not bargain. It only devours.”With a flick of that wrist, a spire of obsidian-black tendrils burst from the ground to skewer Kaiza through the shoulder.He hardly had time to register
Chapter 105: The Eclipse of Hope
The void crackled in unnatural, eerie silence. It was a heavy weight, cold, suffocating in the air. The blue flame of Kaiza’s sword flickered in the stifling dark as his chest rose and fell with every ragged breath. It had been the blast from Mina that very titan that had devoured her that had slammed him down onto the broken earth, the impact leaving him aching from the force of the attack. A single thought raced through his mind.She’s still in there. She has to be.The darkness writhed around him, beating with an unstuck beat. He climbed onto his knees, fighting back the weight of the bottomless well. His gaze darted back to Mina no, no longer Mina but the monstrous, void-soaked shape she’d taken on. Her body shimmered with dark matter, her movements sickly smooth, as if she were a piece of the shadow itself.Her armor, once silvery, was now a collection of black and shadow, a jumbled mess of the power of the void. Her eyes were sick with ancient hunger, a lust for destruction, but
Chapter 104: The Fallen Star
The sky was torn asunder.Mina no, the titan now occupying her body stood in the distance like a dark star. Her once glowing golden armor tarnished a dark, devilish red, and her eyes glistened with a void-like hunger that devoured the very light around her. With each movement, every breath, it was as if she was remaking reality itself, with the void creeping up and crawling from within, claiming her for itself piece by piece.Kaiza stood, frozen, his heart breaking bit by bit. His breath labored; his hand shook on the hilt of his sword. He knew this wasn’t Mina anymore. His praise for the girl who had stood by him, he counseled, the girl that first had shown him the light, was lost. The girl he’d battled tooth and nail to protect was something else now something terrifying, something beyond his comprehension.And yet… her voice Titan’s voice, but still Mina’s still rang in his mind.“The girl is gone, forsaken one. Now, only I remain."Kaiza’s sword shimmered with a ghost of blue flam
