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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
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 21: The Scourge
The dim light of dawn filtered through the cracks in the cavern's ceiling, casting faint, golden rays that illuminated the walls, now stripped of the malevolent shadows they once held. The air was heavy with the aftermath of the battle the scent of scorched earth and the bitter tang of blood mingled, an unsettling reminder of the creature they had just slain.Kaiza came up in fitful gasps of air, as pain from the wound scorched his body at every movement. He kept moving with this searing pain on the side, a weak sensation encroaching slowly and steadily from every side; after all these long centuries and long years, fighting for something and yet coming back to that again being haunted, cursed, and so always tied up in a circle, with the promise of no respite ever ahead.Beside him, Mina moved with quiet resolve, her eyes scanning the path ahead as she kept her hand resting on the hilt of her dagger. She had grown stronger, more determined, since the day Kaiza had found her rescued he
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
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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
