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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: The Abyssal Executioner
As the turf war moved to a new location, the air was thick with the stench of decay and burning sulfur. Kael hardly had a moment to catch his breath when a strange silence fell over the ruined courtyard. The last enemy crumpled at his feet, their body evaporating into a puddle of shadows that slithered back into the darkness.And then a slow, methodical clap rang out in the night.Kael’s eyes shot up, his body stiffening as a looming shape stepped from the shadows. Draped in ragged black robes, its skeletal body was shackled in rusted chains that clanged with every move. An oppressiveness rippled through the air around it, suffocating and ancient. Kael was supremely aware of two empty pits where eyes should have been boring holes into him, pouring darkness like molasses.“Kael of the Shadowborne,” the creature’s voice was a low rasp, but it carried through the courtyard like the echo of a death knell. "Your defiance intrigues me."Kael tightened his grasp on his twin daggers, his puls
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 81: The Darkness Beneath
Blood and rot hung heavy in the air. Kael could hear his blood thundering as he clutched his twin blades whose edges shimmered in the low light of the moon. His breath came in ragged gasps, his body all but broken from the unceasing conflicts that had brought him here. But he couldn’t stop. Not now.On the other side of the battlefield, a new enemy paced in the dark. Orphaned after only seeing you with his own mutated eyes, he tried to dance with dreams written in the sand after having waited so long. Darkness fell, and, with it, two blood-red eyes pierced the folds of night, boring into Kael with a heated ferocity that froze his tracks.“You have traveled far, Shadowborne,” the figure spoke in words that folded on themselves, echoing with an unnatural hum. “But your blood is cursed, and your road ends in ruin.”Kael clenched his jaw. He had no patience for the puzzles of another demented enemy. With a surge of will, he surged forward, blades crying as they sliced the night. The figur
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 82: The Ghostly Warden
Only the faintest traces of the last fight had begun to wrinkle a stony ankle when the coldness enraptured the remnants of the underground temple. A stillness enveloped the space, heavy and anticipatory, as if the walls themselves were holding their breath. The dim glow of a torchlight raged wildly in the dark, shadows waltzing as if haunted by some restless spirit. That brief moment of relief was short-lived another enemy had arrived.A slow, deliberate clap shattered the silence. A nightmare of a figure stepped through the broken columns from the shadows beyond. Swathed in a torn black cloak, its face concealed behind an elaborate bone mask, the creature was somehow all menace. Iron manacles ached around its arms, rusted but unbreakable, and slack but not free, carved with runes old as time and older than creation.“Impressive,” the figure intoned, its voice a growl so distorted that it seemed like a composite of unnatural echoes. “You have butchered the Forsaken Sentinels with admi
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 84: The Malevolence
A blackness more obstructive than even the battle haze wrapped the field, holding the festering stink of rot and evil in every breath. Debris was everywhere broken weapons, scorched earth, and blood-soaked soil; evidence of the battle that had just taken place. But there was no time to regroup. Another presence loomed, more sinister, more vengeful.Kael wiped the blood off his forehead, panting, but not in any danger of panic. He felt it before he saw it, a bloated, toneless presence scuttling from the maw of the abyss itself. Chains rattled like wilderness armature through the desolate ruins. The temperature dropped, filmy frost settling in along the serrated stone, an unnatural mist winding around them.Out of the moving shadows stepped a figure clad in ragged robes, its bony body covered in corroded armor. The eyes of a thousand damned souls burned with sickly light, and within his grip, a blackened scythe thrummed with unspeakable power.“The Abyssal Warden,” said Kael under his b
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 84: Anger of the Shadow
They are born of darkness and shadow and evil and will corrupt everything in this world. The remains of the last skirmish, debris and broken weapons, and the dying embers of last night's attack still remained. But there was no time for a catch-up. A sinister new presence loomed, vengeful, lurking.Blood dripped down Kael’s brow; his breath is ragged but steady. He felt it before he saw it an overwhelming, oppressive force emerging from the abyss itself. There was a chains rattling sound from the ruins. An unnatural mist coiled about them as the temperature dropped, frost crawling across the jagged stone.Out of the flickering darkness came its shape, wearing torn vestments over the skeletal remnants of rust-edged armor. Its eyes burned with the sickly glow of a thousand damned souls, and in its grip, a blackened scythe hummed with unspeakable power.“The Abyssal Warden,” muttered Kael. A myth, they said, a myth that consumed those who defied the demands of the underworld. This was not
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 85: Emissaries of the Aberrant
Blood and fire filled the air, scorched earth still smoldering from the previous battle. Each breath was heavy, as if the earth itself formed the squeeze around the throat of the warriors who stood among the dead. The echoes of clashing steel had only just faded when a new threat materialized from the darkness.A low, guttural growl reverberated over the desecrated battleground, a chill running down their spine. The very shadows themselves began to writhe, curling and twisting against all nature, as a giant of a figure stepped forth. With deepening dusk rendering its substance a faint whisper on the edge of night, a ragged silhouette unbound from this realm, an essence almost that towered above all it gazed upon, untouched by the law and order of this world."Another one already?" Kael cursed under his breath, his grip on his sword hardening. His body was sore, fatigue seeping into his limbs, but there was no time to rest. He looked to his companions, their faces grim but determined.
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 114: The Hunger That Devours
Darkness.It enveloped Kaiza like a second skin, seeping into his pores and creeping into the spaces between his bones.” He couldn't breathe. Couldn’t think. The Abyss was within him now, whispering, tugging.And he was falling.No end. No, up. No down.Just the hunger.Then.CRACK.Kaiza crashed into something solid, bones jangling, his vision flashing white with pain. He inhaled sharply, sucking in dense, viscous air that scorched his lungs like tar.His fingers sank into moist, handfuls of debris.It felt wrong.Hot, throbbing, as if he were kneeling over something alive.His body ached. But worse than that, the feeling still bunched up in him like the Abyss had gotten under his skin, a hurt in his very being that would never, ever heal."Still fighting it?"The voice was his. But not.Kaiza lifted his head.It was his own face looking back at him the Abyssal Kaiza.Taller. Stronger. Dripping with power.That thing loomed, bound in flowing, liquid armor, silver fire licking around
Chapter 113: The Hunger Beneath
Kaiza gasped in a rasping breath.His body protested, his bones heavy with fatigue, but he did not dare to shift.Mina or whatever wore her skin stood in front of him, with her head cocked as if she were an animal luxuriating in its prey, drinking him in with her coal-black eyes.The violet fissures snaking across her skin throbbed, shifting shape as if whatever was underneath the surface wasn’t quite done yet.The hooded figure was gone.No remains, no body, no leftover vibes. No, no absence, as though they were torn from reality itself.Kaiza clenched his jaw.That meant he was alone.With her.Mina stepped forward intentionally, her bare soles squealing against the splintered surface.It was a slow, considered movement, too unlike her usual.He saw her fingers flex, curling then extending outward like claws for a cat flexing its paw.Her lips curled in a cruel smile.“You’re frightened,” she said quietly.Kaiza tightened his grip on his sword.“Mina,” he said, voice low, steady.“F
Chapter 112: The Name That Should Not Be Spoken
The world cracked open.A heavy silence fell over the Hollow City, thicker than death, more complete than the void.For a heartbeat, even the Devourer appeared to pause.The name still lingered; it trembled with an unimaginable heaviness.Azelith.Kaiza barely registered the move before Mina, or whatever was inside her, stumbled one step back, and her blackened eyes widened.Something flared in her face: recognition, rage, fear.The figure in the hood stood still, their sword as dark as a starless night.The blade thrummed, the very air curving away from it as if trying to avoid its touch.Kaiza’s lungs felt like ash, his ribs howling as he pulled himself up from the rubble.The mind was still reeling, trying to make sense of what he had just coursed through.The Hollow King was gone.Eaten.Not dead. Not even erased. Just… unmade.The Unseen Devourer had not slain him.It had merely behaved how it always did, devour.A deity rendered null in mere seconds.And now it loomed, its impos
Chapter 111: The Unseen Devourer
A new presence placed a burden between Heaven and man.It was no mere arrival itas an invasion, a subversion of reality itself.The sky trembled; the Abyss quaked; everything in the Hollow City shook in the embrace of some inconceivable power, as if the very being of things rebelled at what had entered in.Kaiza swayed, ragged for breath, body yelling in wounds already delivered.That thing in Mina had nearly torn him asunder.Where her hand had passed through him, his soul still burned angony beyond that of flesh, beyond the physical.But this… this was worse.The Unseen Devourer didn’t descend from the sky like a deity.It did not emerge from the underworld like a demon.It was a vacuum untilt wasn’t.A crack in the world, a wound deeper even than the broken sky, gaped open like torn flesh. It did not step through. It never existed.It ate its way into being.Kaiza didn’t so much see it as feel it theunger.One that not only wanted to eatbut only wanted to gorge. A kind of energy t
Chapter 110: Just Beneath the Surface
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
Chapter 109: The Hollow King’s Judgment
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
