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Tides Of Eternity Episode 55: Blood Moon Rising
The sun had not yet risen when Kaiza and Mina arrived at the forest edge, their bodies throbbing and their breaths heaving. The cover of trees had kept them safe through the night, but now, exposed in the open, they were at risk.Mina's golden eyes flashed with anxiety. "Kaiza, what if they find us again?"Kaiza swiped the sweat from his forehead and looked out at the barren wasteland before them a destroyed village, reduced to ashes, bony outlines of buildings reaching for the sky like shattered fingers. There was no life in this place, only the specters of the dead."We don't have a choice. We have to rest," he grumbled. "Come on."They made their way through the wreckage, wary of the shifting ground. The acrid smell of burned wood and something much worse hung in the air. Kaiza tightened his hold on his sword, every muscle in his body alert.Then they heard it.A slow, methodical scraping noise.Kaiza pushed Mina back behind him as he turned to face the sound. From the darkness ben
Tides Of Eternity Episode 58: The Warrior's Tone
Kaiza's breath was in ragged gasps as he struggled to find his balance. The battlefield was strangely quiet in the aftermath of the Harbinger's collapse, but he knew better than to think the battle was won. Mina was at his side, her golden flame still burning at her fingertips, her eyes flicking between the rubble and the moving shadows beyond.The armored fighter stood still, his expression unreadable. "They will arrive soon. We don't have much time."Kaiza pushed himself to his feet. "Tell me who they are.""The Order of the Hollow."Mina tensed. "You mean the ones who""Yes." The warrior's tone was grim. "They believe the balance has been shattered. And they will stop at nothing to kill the ones who did it."A cold weight crept into Kaiza's belly. Centuries he had searched for how to break his curse, but now that he had awakened to his newfound strength, he was hunted more than ever.A profound tremor coursed through the earth, and the air was filled with an unnatural charge. Shado
Tides Of Eternity Episode 56: Present Days
Mina's flames still smoldered on the battlefield, with glowing embers illuminating the wreckage they had left behind. Kaiza clamped his jaws shut, laying a hand across his wound. He could already sense his body mending itself, his curse of immortality protecting him from death. The agony was no less real for that, and it served to remind him of his own vulnerability.Mina knelt beside him, her golden eyes filled with worry. “You’re hurt.”“I’ll live.” He exhaled sharply, forcing himself upright. His gaze flickered to the hooded figure who had emerged from the chaos. The Order of the Hollow’s leader was gone, but this new presence exuded something far more unsettling.The hooded man took a step closer, and a ripple of abnormally cold air moved through the air. "You do not realize what you have done."Kaiza clutched his sword harder. "Then tell us."For a long time, the figure didn't say anything, as if considering whether they were worth the trouble. Then, with a voice that was as empt
Tides Of Eternity Episode 57: Whispers of the Past
The battlefield was still. Too still.The burnt bodies of the Order of the Hollow continued to smolder in the frigid night air, their robes nothing more than a pile of ash from Mina's golden flames. The figure in the hood, the one who had taken out their leader with an otherworldly flick of their hand, stood stock-still under the blood-red moon.Kaiza's wounds seared, his eyes blurring from loss of blood, but he struggled to stay on his feet. Mina stood at his side, her fingers still shaking with the last of divine fire.The hooded figure at last turned towards them, their presence choking, like a portent of something worse to follow.Kaiza gripped his sword tightly. "Who the hell are you?The figure stepped forward. Its voice was deep, resonating as if it had come from the other side of a veil of reality."You don't know me, but I've always known you."Mina swallowed hard. "That's not an answer."The figure did not respond to her, however, choosing instead to look at Kaiza. "You've s
Tides Of Eternity Episode 58: Blood on the Ashes
The stench of burnt flesh was the only fresh smoke rising from the battlefield from their clash against the Order of the Hollow. Burned bodies of assassins lay among the ashes ahead of his forces, their black robes turned to cinders. The stench of burnt flesh and blood hung in the air, mingling with the golden embers of Mina’s magic. Kaiza, bandaged but still coming to terms with the fight, observed the hooded apparition that had materialized at the end of the confrontation.“The one who sets fate to happen as it ought to,” the stranger had called themselves.Now, by pale moonlight, Kaiza looked at the newcomer. Their face was shrouded beneath the hood, but their energy emanating from their body was dizzying. The voice of the wind was the only sound, the voice of the wind through the ruins as the silence lengthened."Who are you really?" Kaiza asked as he tightened his grip around his sword hilt.The hooded figure cocked its head, voice level and cold as death. "A keeper of balance. Y
Tides Of Eternity Episode 59: The Awakening of the Devourer
There was a somber silence that enveloped the battlefield, the air reeking of blood and charred meat. The bodies of the Order of the Hollow were strewn about, twisted in agony from Mina’s flames. But Kaiza knew this victory would not last. That figure in the hood they had seen at the end of their fight, it had an overwhelming presence, something much greater than the Order’s dark power.Kaiza gripped his sword tighter, still sore from his past wounds. Beside her, Mina's golden eyes were trained on the figure as her fists shone with the faint remnants of her divine fire."Who are you?" Why the fuck would you do that, Kaiza croaked.The hooded figure cocked their head to one side; whether questioningly or not was impossible to say. Then they spoke in a voice that echoed from the depths of time itself.“I am the Herald of the Devourer.The name sent a shiver down Kaiza’s back. He had heard its whispers before a thing out of this world, ancient and hungry. It was said to be hungry, a grea
Tides Of Eternity Episode 60: The Dominion Arcana
The air was thick with the lingering smell of blood. This dude stood no more than four feet tall, yet he towered overhead after standing on the folly of humanity. Mina was at his side, her golden flames flaring spastically, her breath wheezing. The bodies of the Order’s assassins were strewn across the ruined ground, but the fight was far from finished.You had come into the picture a terrible, spine-chilling force.The hooded figure who had intervened in the last battle stayed perfectly still, a statue surveying the battlefield with an unsettling calm. His name is not known, but his power is undeniable.Kaiza clenched the hilt of his sword. “Who are you?”The figure spoke in a hollow, almost alien voice. “I am the keeper of balance, the voice of gods forgotten.”Mina's flames roared in response to her clenched fists. “Are you our ally or another enemy?”The figure did not answer. Instead, he lifted a hand. An icy gust whirled across the wavering battlefield, and with it came the unna
Tides Of Eternity Episode 61: Oath of the Wraithborn
The night air was heavy with the smell of blood and burning flesh. Smoke still rose from the ruins of the battlefield, bodies were strewn across the field like so much broken glass. Kaiza stood at the center with dark ichor soaking his blade of exotic metal, breath hard. Mina lurked behind him, golden flames barely sparking to life, the crinkled hands of fatigue reflecting through their shivering hands. The stranger who had saved them from the battle against the Order of the Hollow seemed to linger at the edges, hooding their face and shimmering a pair of silver eyes in shadow."You have meddled with things far beyond the understanding of creatures such as yourself," said the stranger, their voice an ice-cold hiss that worked its way into the marrow.Kaiza bit back a curse, gripping the hilt of his sword so tightly that his knuckles went white. "Who are you?"The stranger turned their face. "A keeper of balance. Witness to cycles of death and rebirth.” Their voice deepened. “And an en
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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