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Tides Of Eternity Episode 35: The Edge of Truth
Kaiza's heart was pounding, his grip tightening around Mina's trembling hand. Darkness seemed to be alive around them, an energy that throbbed within it—ancient and living. The chasm spread before them endlessly, devouring everything in its wake, and Kaiza knew he was running out of time. If he did not do it now, they would never come out of this hellhole.Mina's eyes, once full of hope, were now clouded with fear. Her body shook, her breath ragged, as if the very essence of the curse was pulling her under, dragging her into the shadows where she would be consumed."We have to go, Mina," Kaiza's voice was low, edged with desperation. "We don't have much time.Mina gazed at him dully now, as though she were becoming a specter, losing bits of herself away with every dying second. What had bound the two together—that great amount of power to hold onto another person—ebbed out at every tick-tack. Also, along came the tightening choke of the evil curse surrounding Kaiza and himself."Mina!
Tides Of Eternity Episode 36: Shattered Vows
The night air was heavy with tension, a sharp chill cutting through the street as Kaiza sprinted down the alley, his heart pounding in his chest. His muscles burned with every step, but he couldn't afford to stop. Not now. Not when Mina was still out there, slipping further into the darkness that seemed to swallow her whole. His mind was a whirlwind of thoughts, each one more frantic than the last.He could hear the faintest sound of footsteps behind him, the subtle rustle of fabric against the cold wind. His senses were honed, trained over centuries of survival, and he knew the moment someone—or something—was following him. He didn't need to turn around to know they were closing in on him.But it wasn't the figure he feared.Mina was still alive. That much he knew.The weight of the curse, the dark force that had haunted him for so long, was alive in her too. The question, the one that had haunted him from the very beginning, lingered: Could they break free from it? Could they escape
Tides Of Eternity Episode 37: Curse
Kaiza could feel the cold, relentless weight of dread pressing down on him like a thousand-pound stone. He'd been here before this sense of impending doom. The kind of feeling you get when you know you're up against something far bigger than yourself, far darker than anything you've ever seen.The shadows swirled before him, growing thicker by the second, suffocating the air with a stench of decay. His fists were clenched so tight his nails dug into his palms, but he didn't dare let go. Not now. Not when everything he cared about was on the line. Not when Mina was just out of reach."Mina, he whispered, a prayer of his lips with her name on his lips. Trembling was out of the question anymore. Not today. At least, since time immemorial, the man had been introduced to that pure fear called it. This one was now a fight. Surviving."You'll wish you came here, Kaiza," said a sly voice in darkness.He tensed, eyes narrowing. There, stepping out of the shadows, was a figure, looming and fore
Tides Of Eternity Episode 37: Kaiza's Grip
It didn't stop raining. It hammered down on the earth, a constant pounding of droplets seeping through Kaiza's clothing, but nothing seemed to quench the flame in his chest. His pulse ran wild, his mind careened, and his fingers itched around the hilt of the blade he'd clutched for what felt like an eternity. Blood lingered in the air. His eyes narrowed, scanning the empty street before him, the deafening silence punctuated only by the occasional rumble of thunder.Mina was gone.That fact cut deeper than anything. She had been there. In his arms. But now, like everything else in his cursed existence, she had slipped away from his grasp, vanishing into the night with nothing but questions and confusion left behind.He could still hear her voice, distant and strained, echoing in his mind: “Kaiza, I’m sorry.”What the hell had happened? Where had she gone? Why had she said that?With each step, he felt the weight of the unanswered questions press on his chest, suffocating him, but Kaiza
Tides Of Eternity Episode 38: The Abyss Awaits
Kaiza's head jerked back as a searing light burst from the depths of the darkness, engulfing him in a storm of disorienting flashes and a rush of cold air. His senses overloaded, his body thrown against an unseen force, the walls of the room no longer standing everything around him was in flux, swirling in a black vortex of malevolent energy. The overwhelming power pressing down on him was unbearable.His throat was burning; he gasped for air, but the air felt thick and choking. His eyes darted frantically about him, unable to focus on anything, unable to make sense of anything. Was this what Vernon had been telling him to worry about? Had he passed the point of no return?No.Kaiza shook his head violently, forcing his way through the dizzying swirl in his mind. He couldn't. He couldn't let this be the end. Not now. Not when he was so close.Suddenly, his vision cleared, and his feet slammed onto solid ground, but the moment he tried to take a step forward, he stumbled back, his knee
Tides Of Eternity Episode 39: The Edge of Eternity
Kaiza's breath came thick in his ears, for the suffocating darkness seemed to close about him like a living blanket of shadows that writhed and slithered, eager to drag him into oblivion. His hands shook as he tried to grip the sword; the weight was too much for him, and it slipped from his fingers yet again. The cold was now unbearable, gnawing at his bones; every breath he took cut like inhaling broken glass.But just as it seemed his world was completely going to come crashing down around him, a single word, shrill and commanding, cut through the chaos."Enough."It wasn't a voice. It was a command, a force that resonated deep within the marrow of his bones. The darkness recoiled, shuddering backward as if struck by a blow, and for the briefest of moments, Kaiza could breathe. The pressure on his chest, the weight of the shadows everything lightened.Kaiza's eyes darted to the source of the voice; his heart galloped uncontrollably inside his chest. For a fraction of a split second,
Tides Of Eternity Episode 40: Into the Abyss
Kaiza's world spun, all sensation blurring into a throbbing ache. Darkness pressed in from all sides, suffocating, impenetrable. His breaths were shallow, ragged gasps, but the world felt distant, as if he were sinking into an endless void.Not like this.The thought was in his mind, desperate and pleading. He could not let it end this way. He could not let Vernon win after all he had been through, not after all that Mina had given.A scream echoed in the quiet. It was a scream from a distance but unmistakable a scream so familiar that it stabbed him in the heart.Mina.Kaiza's chest constricted, fear overwhelming him, and he jerked up as far as he could go, his body acting on autopilot. But the agony was too much. His head pulsed, his limbs lacking strength, and he stumbled backward, falling back to his knees. Darkness surrounded him, swirling across his body like a deadly, enveloping fog."Get up," he muttered to himself, gritting his teeth as he forced his hands to the ground. He h
Tides Of Eternity Episode 41: The Reckoning
Kaiza's heart thundered in his chest as the shadows continued to claw at him, pulling him deeper into the abyss. The light that had flickered so brightly moments ago now seemed distant, like a star on the edge of a dying universe. He couldn't reach it not like this. Not when the darkness around him felt more alive than ever, suffocating him with its weight.Where is she?The idea writhed in his skull, unrelenting, merciless. Mina was somewhere out there, he knew it; she just existed beyond the reach of his fingers, and Kaiza was willing to rip the world open to find her. His hands compressed on nothingness, as if the very fabric of his energy was drifting through his fingers. Shadows asserted themselves, rending at his body, pulling him down with every breath. The power that had kept him alive for so long now seemed fragile, as if the threads of his existence were being unraveled."Mina!" Kaiza bellowed once more, the sound raw and desperate, swallowed whole by oppressive darkness. It
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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
