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Tides Of Eternity Chapter 79: The Flames
A storm of embers flitted through the shattered streets, whipping in the caustic air like fireflies in a graveyard. The fiery smell of sultry soil danced with the prick of burnt ozone, the acrid taste of his enemies still in the thick, dry heat. Kaiza stood on the debris, his breath hot, his body sore from seen and unseen injuries. He gripped his reforged blade tighter in his hands, its humming blade edge singing with the steel of his will.He had lost too much. He had bled and fought and suffered more than any man should have to. But the war was not finished not yet.“Joshy” broke through silence instantly, like a viper through the night, a sense of foulness in the air, the very touch of the essences in the atmosphere like a physical force. It was ancient, older by eons than any voidspawn he had faced in the past, and unlike those vermin, this one did not creep in the dark.It welcomed the fire.The ruins rang with a slow, measured clap. Kaiza spun around, eyes narrowing at a figure
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 80: Ashen Requiem
Kaiza had little time to process before the wave of flame washed over him. Fires surged like a tsunami, devouring all in their way. He raised his arms, trying to summon the last dregs of his energy in order to create a shield. Blazing blue flame erupted from his body and crashed into the Harbinger’s hellfire in a tempest of heat and rage. The impact reverberated across the shattered battlefield, splintering rock and casting embers into the charcoaled air.The blast hurled Kaiza backward. He plowed through the remains of a fallen tower, his body slamming into debris and then rolling to a bitter stop. His breath came in ragged gasps, his limbs shaking with fatigue. He attempted to get up, but his muscles protested with every hobbling motion. And he stood among corpses corpses that had been blessed, corpses that sizzled and rotted with the foul smell of struggle hot blood the smell of carnage flesh burning not the flesh of his own, but that of the battlefield, carnage flesh dead on the gr
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 81: Always and Forever
In front of Kaiza stretched an undisturbed silence. All around stretched blackened ground for miles, and the air was heavy with smoke and the respectable hiss of crackling embers. His body was in pain, a thousand years of wounds flaring, fatigue eating at him. The curse of immortality hung over him like a sky filled with black clouds, a hunger that was both ancient and new, a forgotten instinct that had imprinted itself into the marrow of his bones; the weight of centuries settling as an iron chain that could never be loosened.The Arbiter’s voice rang in his mind, clean and unrelenting. “You will have no time remaining, you timeless wretch. The choice will come soon. And when the end arrives, will you embrace it? Or defy fate once more?"That question ate at Kaiza and forced him to face the one truth he had tried so hard to deny. He could hear the clock ticking in the marrow of his bones, an ancient countdown he had forgotten long ago.For a moment, Kaiza let himself breathe, letting t
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 82: The Heirs of Fate
The air was heavy, saturated with the acrid aroma of burning ash and the biting bitterness of smoke. Kaiza gripped the sword tightly in his calloused hands, his knuckles so white from the force. He sucked in sharp, ragged gulps of breath to meet Malgorath, the Ashen Watcher, who stood before him like flesh made wraith. The skeletal figure’s voice, dripping with mocking contempt, resonated throughout the silence of the ruined battlefield.“You’re too late, Kaiza,” Malgorath’s voice slumbered like a hatchling pulled from dark dreams; his desolate stare navigated the ashes of the burnt world they were standing in. “Your path of reckoning has already started. “The will of the Eternal One cannot be undone.”Kaiza’s heart beat hard against his ribcage. The words were no less than a roost that he couldn’t shake off. The Eternal One. The name congealed in his mind like a blade, a testament to the curse that bound him to the earth for all eternity both immortal and cursed. Beck had long since g
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 83: The Malevolence
Kaiza’s vision swirled, bent, the world curling around him into a vortex of shadows the length of reality. And the darkness engulfed all around him as his heart raced to the rhythm of the rising pulse of all that his body was fighting against.No longer could he feel the cold, hard earth beneath his boots, nor the weight of his sword in the grip of his hand. As if he had been torn from the fabric of reality and thrown into a space that was neither light nor dark, neither here nor there.That soft voice whispered again in his head.“Kaiza… is that the end you long for?He knew that voice. He hadn’t heard it in a long time, though, so long, in fact, since he’d felt it around. His breath hitched, memories rushing, tracing their way back to the forefront of his mind before the curse, before the never-ending wars and battles, before the shackles of immortality dragged him back to this world over and over again.The voice was familiar Mina.“Mina?” Kaiza inhaled sharply, invoking the name as
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 84: Anger of the Shadow
Kaiza's heart thudded against his ribs as the wave of power rolled over him. His sword, once slow and cumbersome, now hummed with raw energy, crackling with the fire of his will. The shadows around him receded a little, like the receding tide, but not enough. The Harbinger of the Void stood before him, unshakeable, a mountain of darkness and silence.His breathing was hard gasps, but Kaiza felt something stirring deep within him something ancient, something primal. It was a piece of him that had lain dormant for centuries, buried beneath the weight of immortality and the curse. But now, with this foe standing before him, it surged to the surface.The Harbinger of the Void, the being that declared itself to be the end of all things, regarded him with a cold, calculating stare. Its obsidian armor shone with a light that was not of this world, and the shadows that clung to its form seemed to whisper, like voices from beyond."You cannot win this, Kaiza," the Harbinger's voice was a deep,
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 85: Emissaries of the Aberrant
The form before Kaiza towered with an almost otherworldly aura, its shape twisting and curling like smoke, but its reality impossible to deny more ancient than anything Kaiza had ever experienced. Its eyes burned with an evil radiance, the color of extinguished stars, and it radiated an aura of endless darkness. It was greater than a creature of the void; it was the embodiment of the very end of time itself.Kaiza's sword shook in his hand, every muscle crying out in protest. The reassuring weight of immortality, once a comforting constant, now seemed a cruel yoke binding him down to an endless struggle. The foe before him was no mere symbol of evil, no savage creature. This beast was purpose. It was a force beyond his understanding."Who are you?" Kaiza's voice thundered, echoing across the barren battlefield, his throat dry and cracked.The shape did not answer immediately. Instead, it flowed, its shape spreading in slow, measured motions, like something ancient waking from long slee
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 86: The Unbroken Chain
Kaiza's heart pounded in his chest as he looked over the battlefield. The silence was oppressive, the echoes of war hanging in the air like the smell of an old nightmare that had long since faded. His gaze searched frantically for any glimpse of Mina, but there was nothing only the desolate wasteland of ash and smoke where the sky had been consumed by darkness. The Keeper's cold laughter still lingered in his mind.It is done, Kaiza," the voice thundered, cold and icy, as sharp as the edge of steel. "You cannot be freed from the cycle. You cannot be free of me."Kaiza's breast constricted, and he was momentarily suffused with the pressure of the centuries weighing him down. The Keeper's statement was not an utterance but a fact that stirred deep in the recesses of his being. The immortal curse had weighed on him for so long, but it was not solely his own pain that he bore. He had witnessed countless lives flicker out, cherished loved ones lost to the passage of time, and civilizations
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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
