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Tides Of Eternity Episode 13: Oran’s Trial
The light from the altar swallowed Oran whole, plunging him into a suffocating void. When he opened his eyes, he was no longer in the forest. Instead, he stood in the middle of a vast battlefield, the air thick with the metallic tang of blood and the cries of the dying.He recognized this place immediately it was the Plains of Jurok, where the last great rebellion of his tribe had been crushed. The sky above was a sickly gray, and the ground beneath him was littered with shattered weapons and bodies of his kin.Oran’s hands clenched around the spear he now realized he still carried. “Why this place? Why now?” he muttered, his voice echoing unnaturally in the empty expanse.A familiar voice answered, sharp and accusing. “Because you’ve never let it go.”Oran spun around to see a figure emerging from the mist. It was his brother, Kalen, the warrior who had once been his greatest rival and his greatest shame. Kalen’s expression was hard, his eyes burning with anger.“You abandoned us,” K
Tides Of Eternity Episode 14: The Veiled Sanctuary
The path revealed by the altar stretched ahead like a silver ribbon, shimmering faintly in the moonlight. The forest around them had changed no longer dark and oppressive, but eerie and unnervingly silent. The trees here were ancient, their gnarled roots twisting into the ground like claws, and a faint mist coiled lazily around their feet.Kaiza led the way, his expression grim but resolute. Mina followed close behind, her hand resting on the hilt of her dagger, her sharp eyes scanning the shadows for any signs of danger. Oran brought up the rear, unusually quiet, his usual bravado replaced by a contemplative air.“You think that altar trick was the last of the weirdness, or are we in for more surprises?” Oran finally broke the silence, his voice low.Mina glanced back at him, her lips quirking into a small, wry smile. “This place hasn’t exactly been predictable so far. I wouldn’t count on it getting easier.”Kaiza’s gaze remained fixed on the path ahead. “It won’t. The altar called t
Tides Of Eternity Episode 15: Shadows in the Mist
The path beyond the Veiled Sanctuary was shrouded in dense mist, twisting and winding like it had a mind of its own. The air carried a heavy tension, as if the forest itself was holding its breath. Kaiza, Mina, and Oran walked in silence, their footsteps muffled by the thick layer of moss underfoot.Kaiza’s grip on the obsidian fragment tightened as he replayed the confrontation with his shadow in his mind. The cold, biting words still echoed in his ears, but he pushed them aside. There was no room for doubt now.Oran broke the silence, his voice tinged with unease. “Is it just me, or is the forest... watching us?”Mina glanced around, her sharp eyes scanning the shadows. The trees loomed closer than before, their twisted branches arching overhead like skeletal fingers. “It’s not just you. Something’s out there.”Kaiza nodded. “Stay close. Whatever it is, it’s waiting for the right moment.”The group moved cautiously, the mist curling around them like living tendrils. Strange whispers
Tides Of Eternity Episode 16: The Abyss Beneath
The tunnel stretched deeper, its walls growing tighter as they ventured farther into the heart of the ancient ravine. The air grew thick with the scent of rust and decay, mingling with the oppressive weight of centuries of silence. Kaiza kept the obsidian fragment close, its faint glow casting erratic shadows against the jagged stone walls. The battle with the serpentine guardian still echoed in his mind, but there was no time for reflection. They had only just begun to uncover the truths hidden beneath this forsaken place.Behind him, Mina’s cautious footsteps were barely audible, yet Kaiza could feel the steady presence of her gaze on him. He stole a glance over his shoulder, meeting her eyes. Her expression was resolute, but there was a flicker of concern in her gaze. She was worried about him; he could sense it. He couldn’t afford to let her down now."Stay close," he said softly, his voice barely a whisper. "Whatever’s ahead, we face it together."Mina nodded, her hand instinctiv
Tides Of Eternity Episode 17 The Heart of Darkness
The tunnel grew darker still as they moved deeper into the heart of the ancient labyrinth. The air was thick with moisture, and each step seemed to sink deeper into a chilling abyss. Kaiza’s hand tightened around the obsidian fragment, its glow casting weak shadows on the walls around them. The oppressive silence of the underground world weighed heavily on him, each crack in the stone and distant echo making his nerves burn with anticipation.The death of the creature, that monstrous amalgamation of shadow and stone, had only momentarily silenced the place, but Kaiza knew better than to believe they had escaped. The world they had stepped into was ancient, tied to forces much older than anything they had encountered, and the heart of the labyrinth was still ahead.Behind him, Mina’s cautious footsteps barely echoed, but he could feel her presence, her silent strength. She wasn’t just the girl he was sworn to protect anymore. She was something more. Something that tied him to his human
Tides Of Eternity Episode 18: Shadows of the Labyrinth
The walls of the ancient labyrinth seemed to pulse with an unseen heartbeat as Kaiza and Mina pressed forward. The air was thick, a mixture of musty earth and the faint scent of blood, a scent that lingered from the wraith’s brief yet violent assault. Though the creature had been vanquished, the oppressive weight of the tunnel seemed heavier, as though the very stones had been soaked in malice for centuries.Kaiza felt it deep in his bones, the sensation of being watched, of being pulled deeper into the heart of something far older and far more dangerous than anything they had yet encountered. Each step was heavier, the air thicker, and he knew the worst was yet to come. His grip on the obsidian fragment tightened, its dim glow casting long shadows on the walls, offering only a small comfort in the crushing darkness.Mina walked beside him, her eyes narrowed, scanning their surroundings with a focus that belied her previous naivety. The girl he had once protected from the dangers of t
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 19: The Abyss Beckons
The echoes of their footsteps grew fainter as Kaiza and Mina moved deeper into the labyrinth, the pulse of the walls subsiding into an eerie stillness. The air, once thick with danger, now felt charged with an unfamiliar energy. Kaiza could feel a tingling sensation at the back of his neck as though the labyrinth itself was watching them, waiting for the right moment to strike again.Mina walked beside him, her expression unreadable, but he could feel the tension radiating off her. They had defeated the sorcerer, but the danger wasn’t over. In fact, it felt as though the labyrinth had only just begun to reveal its true nature. The dark sorcerer had been a mere pawn in a much larger game, one that neither of them fully understood.“What was he talking about?” Mina asked, her voice cutting through the silence. “About the future... about us?”Kaiza glanced at her, his jaw tightening. “He wasn’t just a sorcerer. He was part of something older, something far more dangerous. He’s been waiti
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 20: Beneath the Eclipse
The ground beneath Kaiza’s boots trembled as he and Mina stood before the darkened cavern, its entrance a yawning mouth that seemed to swallow the very light around them. The air was thick with a stagnant, sulfuric scent, and faint whispers echoed from within, almost as if the stone itself was alive. Despite the terror that clung to the air, there was an undeniable pull, a call that resonated deep within Kaiza’s soul.Mina stood beside him, her usually calm demeanor faltering only slightly as she tightened her grip on her dagger. “This is it,” she whispered, her voice barely audible over the faint growl of the winds. “The place where everything began.”Kaiza glanced at her, his eyes softening for a moment. The weight of the world had always rested heavily on his shoulders, but Mina... She had been with him since the beginning of this cursed journey. The fact that she still stood beside him, despite all the horrors they’d faced, made him fiercely protective of her. And now, as they nea
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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
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
