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Tides Of Eternity Episode 42: The Bloodline's Edge
The air felt heavy with anticipation. Kaiza could feel its weight pressing on him, stifling and almost palpable. His fingers closed around the hilt of the blade: the only friend he had from all those struggles and tortures over the course of centuries. He did not know how long he could pretend to be a man again, because the night was closing around his body just as it seemed to close its noose upon his mind as well.Mina was in danger.She was the one thing that had driven him forward. She was that spark of hope he had held onto for such a long time. And here they were now, stuck inside a maze, which seemed to change with each step they made. Every corner brought them nearer to an enemy they didn't know much about, but there was one thing they knew they had to fight.Kaiza could make out the sound of low and guttural whispers, low enough that even the darkness cannot smother the breath. Others, beyond and before the oldness of eternity, crouch in his own world, threatening to tear up
Tides Of Eternity Episode 43: The Unseen Enemy
The moon hung heavy in the night sky, casting an eerie glow over the city. Its pale light was the only thing that illuminated the chaos unfolding below. Kaiza's heart pounded in his chest as he moved swiftly through the alleyways, Mina not far behind him. The air was thick with tension—something was wrong. He could feel it in his bones.Mina was quiet, but he could hear the quickened breaths as she and Kaiza rushed to avoid the growing crowd of pursuers closing in on them. He couldn't allow himself to lower his guard—not even for one second. Not with the enemy so close."What's happening, Kaiza?" Mina's voice shook, but in her eyes there was a fire that Kaiza had never seen before.“It’s not over yet. We’re not safe until we’re out of here,” Kaiza muttered through gritted teeth, his instincts screaming at him to keep moving.Shadows danced on the walls on either side; every dark alcove had the promise of hidden horrors. Kaiza had no such illusions—whoever was hunting them wasn't going
Tides Of Eternity Episode 43: The Last Stand
The moon dangled like a jagged sliver in the night sky, casting long shadows across the bloodied ground. Kaiza stood at the edge of the battlefield, his breath ragged as the adrenaline still coursed through him. His heart pounded like a drum in his chest, matching the rhythm of his footsteps as he slowly approached the heart of the chaos.A battle of old could still be smelt as blood and smoke intertwined. To one side lay his enemies; on the other, his allies lay in profusion. There lay many corpses: some belonged to enemies and some to comrades, their power spent in defeat, leaving but the cold body, once living. His fingers were tight upon the hilt of his sword; it weighed heavily in his grasp as he reminded himself of everything for which he'd fought, of everything he stood to lose.Mina."The name shot out of his mouth like a prayer, barely above a whisper above the screeching of the wind. She was out there, somewhere. He could feel that. He felt the bond between them pulling at h
Tides Of Eternity Episode 46: The Wrath
The creature towered before Kaiza, a living nightmare of swirling darkness and malice. Its eyes blazed with unnatural fury, burning through the thick shadows in the room like hellfire. Every inch of its monstrous form seemed to pulse with an ominous energy, as if the very air around it were being sucked into its void.Kaiza's heart pounded in his chest. He felt the weight of the power, the pressure a vice around his ribcage. No way out. No more running.He glanced down at Mina, her face pale as she clung to him, shuddering with fear. Her grip was weak, but her fingers dug into his arm as if trying to anchor herself to something, anything."I won't let it take you," Kaiza whispered, but he didn't really say the words. He couldn't be sure he believed them himself. This creature was something more, something above anything he had ever fought against. It shook him to his bones: the strength, the hunger, the pure, unstoppable evil.The shadowy thing let out a guttural growl, its form shift
Tides Of Eternity Episode 46: The Descent into Darkness
The darkness suffocated everything, shrouding the room in heavy, oppressive silence. Kaiza's senses overload: his body is a searing mass of pain, yet his mind is sharp. He cannot afford to let his guard down now, not with Mina this close. The flash of a face, his mind still reeling from that brief, unholy glimpse, pulsed through his thoughts like an echo he couldn't silence. Tightening his grip on the pendant, the jade still glowing dimly in his palm, whatever was happening now, whatever just broke forth under the shadow of the creature, Kaiza wanted answers. He wanted them right now.But the answers didn't come. Not from the beast before him, nor from the chilly, lifeless walls that surrounded him. All Kaiza could hear was the uneven sound of his breath, the pounding of his heartbeat within his chest. Mina lay beneath him, shallow and fast with her breathing, and Kaiza could feel the weight of her fear pressing against him.Mina…" His voice cracked as he looked down at her. Her face
Tides Of Eternity Episode 47: The Reckoning
The room seemed colder, the air thicker, suffocating with each breath Kaiza took. Every inch of his body screamed for relief from the pain, but it didn't matter. Not when Mina was still out there, still in the grasp of the shadow creature. His vision was blurry, but his focus remained razor-sharp on her, on her safety. Everything else could burn to ashes if it meant keeping her alive.He could feel the pendant in his hand, pulsing with a strange heat. It was not like before. This felt like raw, unbound power, like a wild beast waiting to be unleashed. His fingers had only tightened around it, desperate for anything that might tip the scales in their favor. Yet in his heart, he knew it was never enough.Kaiza's breath hitched as he saw the creature pulling Mina toward the farthest corner of the room, toward the shadows that seemed to stretch forever. The tendrils of darkness wrapped tighter around her, pulling her toward whatever abyss it had crawled out of. Her struggles weakened with
Tides Of Eternity Episode 48: A Nightmare
All at once, the world plunged into darkness for Kaiza. He felt nothing just the choking emptiness suffocating him against his skin, cold and unyielding. His limbs seemed weightless, yet impossibly heavy, as if floating through ink. He tried to get a gasp of air, but it refused to enter his lungs and seemed thick. Next came the sound: distant, whispering, like voices on the wind. They slithered into his ears, hissing his name.Kaiza… you belong to us now.Panic clawed at his mind. He forced himself to move, to fight against the tendrils constricting his body. But it was as if wading through tar. His strength was ebbing out; his mind was slipping away. Somewhere, beyond the void, he could still feel Mina her presence flickering like a dying ember.Then, a jolt of pain snapped through his body.Kaiza's eyes snapped open. He wasn't in the smitten room anymore. He stood barefoot on a sea of glass. It stretched endlessly beneath him, reflecting a churning sky full of storm clouds. Lightnin
Tides Of Eternity Episode 49:
Kaiza stumbled forward, his body crying out in protest, but he refused to release Mina. The fragile form of the woman in his arms was all that kept him from flying away on the winds. The chamber around them dissolved into nothing, the shadows crawling back into the cracks of reality, retreating but not gone. He felt their gaze, their hunger, waiting for that moment to strike again.He strained through the agony, through the crushing fear tearing at his mind. Every muscle screamed as he entered the shattered remains of the ancient hall, its pillars that had once stood tall now nothing but jagged splinters. The sky above if it was even a sky seethed with evil, twisting colors, like a storm bleeding through the heavens.Then, a sound a whisper carried on the void."You cannot escape us."Kaiza's breath caught. His hold on Mina constricted. He spun sharply, his pulse racing. The walls shuddered. Shadows coiled into a single, pulsating mass at the center of the ruined chamber. It was refor
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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
