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Tides Of Eternity Episode 65: The Blood Moon Beckons
The smell of death hung heavy in the air.Kaiza and Mina waited at the edge of a ruined village, their bodies taut, their breath shallow. The sky overhead was painted blood red, the blood moon cupped over the land like a harbinger of doom. Somewhere, around a distant corner, fires had already started crackling, their dying embers throwing eerie shadows over the remains of what had once been a prosperous settlement.Bodies spewed out on the ground, ripped apart by an invisible force. Some were nothing but smoldering shells, flesh burned and blackened beyond recognition, while others had gashes in their skins, as if something with unholy strength had taken them apart. Mina brought a hand to her mouth and choked back the bile in her throat.“This wasn’t the Order of the Hollow,” she whispered. "This was something else."Kaiza knelt next to a corpse, his fingertips gliding against the gouges stamped into the flesh. The cuts were clean, nearly surgical. He frowned. "No ordinary beast did t
Tides Of Eternity Episode 66: The Awakening of the Devourer
The smell of blood saturated the air. They fought for the future in what was left of their present, and Kaiza, fresh from the frenzy of battle, gripped his sword tighter, peering into the black silence that was ahead of them. Mina knelt beside one of the fallen warriors, her golden fire flickering weakly against the odds. Tattered remnants of the Order of the Hollow lay in charred heaps around them, but something felt… incomplete.Kaiza felt a chill crawl up their spine. The fight had been too easy.A soft, guttural sound reverberated in the air, and then there came the slow, deliberate footfalls.Kaiza turned sharply.Out of the darkness, a figure writhed and slithered, shrouded in an inky dark cloud. The instant Kaiza felt his presence, a wave of unease rippled through her body, an instinctual dagger of warning penetrating her heart: this was not a foe they could hope to face unprepared. His pale, emaciated face contorted into some kind of grin or grimace, his hollowed eyes shimmeri
Tides Of Eternity Episode 67: The Oryx's
The sky tore open like a chronic ulcer, ichor oozing in rotund coils. Oryx’s laughter filled the battlefield, low and unnatural, rattling in Kaiza’s bones. As if, just like the words you would utter, reality itself was crumbling under the weight he had to carry.Kaiza balled his fists, pain lancing through his body from his injuries. Barely conscious, Mina feebly clenched his arm. Her golden fire sputtered in between dimness, malignant else drained. They had just barely made it out of their last encounter alive. And now Oryx was coming back stronger.A giant clawed hand was formed from the void above, its fingers hanging impossibly long, leaking shadow. Oryx’s voice came from somewhere and nowhere all at once.“Did you really think I could be defeated so easily?”Kaiza tightened his grip on his sword. “I will cut down as many as whatever it takes.Oryx chuckled. “So let’s put that conviction to the test.”More appendages slithered from the rift with a sickening squelch, gripping the r
Tides Of Eternity Episode 68: The Shallow
A dread silence fell across the battlefield. The ruins were bathed in blood and shadow, yet it was Kaiza’s body that was the only thing that mattered to Mina.She knelt next to him, shaking. His face was white, his breathing shallow. But the thing that terrified her most was the black veins that corkscrewed up his skin like some kind of living thing.“Kaiza,” she whispered, shaking his shoulders. “Wake up. Please.”He didn’t respond. His body was stiff, frozen between the realm of the living and the dead. His fingers tensed a little, his lips parted, but no words emerged.Then his eyes snapped open.But those weren’t his eyes anymore.His once-murderous glimmer vanished in a vortex of black and red, and Mina felt for the first time in her entire life fear of him.A low and guttural voice filled the air, but it wasn’t Kaiza’s voice. It resonated in all directions, worming its way into her mind."He is ours now."Mina’s blood turned to ice.He felt the darkness in his veins surge and th
Tides Of Eternity Episode 69: The Unseen Hand
The night was heavy with tension. The stench of charred flesh and blood fills the air, a reminder of a war fought, of battles waged by Kaiza and Mina. The silence that had settled after the Order of the Hollow had confronted them the last time hadn’t been a relief either it had only foretold the arrival of something more horrible.Blade dripping red, Kaiza roared at the swath of death on the battlefield. His wounds throbbed, but the pain was secondary to the weight pressing down on his mind. Mina sat beside him, propped against a fallen pillar, her golden flames flickering weakly as fatigue began to overtake her.“We can’t live here,” Kaiza muttered. "More will come."Mina nodded, though her gaze was unfocused. Something was wrong.The silence was broken by a rustling sound.Kaiza’s instincts flared. He turned toward the void outside the ruins. The earth bucked, low rumbles, imperceptible at first, but slowly escalating. The darkness was snaking and morphing once more into something f
Tides Of Eternity Episode 70: Devourer of Light
An unseen energy crackled in the night air, a pressure that saturated the battlefield, like a thick fog. Mina's shrieks rang out in the rubble, primal and unending, the rot blossoming in her veins like a ravenous parasite.Kaiza knelt next to her, his fingers wrapping around her shaking shoulders, desperation clawing at his heart. Black tendrils throbbed beneath her skin, the void’s essence wriggling like it was attempting to devour her from the inside out.“Mina! Hold on!” Kaiza’s voice was hoarse, frantic.The fire inside her flickered and dimmed, her eyes fluttering wildly with fear. She struggled to breathe, her body bending and twisting as dark energy coursed through her. Her hands pressed at her chest, fingers curling like she was trying to tear the corruption out.“It’s in me,” she gasped. “Kaiza… it’s… eating me…”He clenched his jaw; rage and desperation warred within him. It wasn’t a mere wound it was something different and worse. Something beyond flesh and bone.A curse. A
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 71: The Hungers
An eerie and unnatural void of silence consumed the battlefield. Where Mina and the Amber entity had stood just moments before now lay an empty scar on reality, an echo of their abrupt disappearance. The rubble was silent, except for the slow, curling trails of black energy curling away and into the night. Kaiza was shaking, his arm outstretched at the space where Mina had just stood. A cold, merciless emptiness gnawed at his chest worse than any wound, more suffocating than any curse.Then the world twisted, suddenly, without warning.Some force an unseen hand of darkness seized him by the throat and pulled him forward. The battlefield faded to bars of black and red, his body pulled into the maw, consumed in full by the same thing that had come for Mina. It was a fall that had no end, an abyss that had no bottom. The weight of it pressed on his lungs, turning his thoughts to static. The shadows clawed at him, stripping away sensation, devouring everything except pain. That remained.
Tides Of Eternity Chapter 72: Devourer’s Wrath
Kaiza fell into the endless void from the abyss, which opened up and swallowed all light. His body contorted, shadows scratching at his limbs, drawing him deeper into the engulfing dark. His mind screamed at the void, and the only response came as whispers from the entity that had stolen Mina from him.“She is not yours to save any more.”Kaiza’s teeth ground together; his anger was a wildfire against the oppressive cold. He willed his limbs to move, grasping for something anything to stop his fall. But the void offered nothing. Only endless falling.Then, a presence.His senses intensified a moment before the collision. A crushing force blasted him from behind, sending him sideways. He spun in the air, just catching a glimpse of the figure flying at him—Mina.Or what had become of her.Flames of gold turned ashen between pulsing black veins. Her eyes, cavernous brooks of midnight, dug into him as she lunged, her fingers stretching into scythe-like talons. Kaiza barely rolled out of t
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Chapter 113: The Hunger Beneath
Kaiza gasped in a rasping breath.His body protested, his bones heavy with fatigue, but he did not dare to shift.Mina or whatever wore her skin stood in front of him, with her head cocked as if she were an animal luxuriating in its prey, drinking him in with her coal-black eyes.The violet fissures snaking across her skin throbbed, shifting shape as if whatever was underneath the surface wasn’t quite done yet.The hooded figure was gone.No remains, no body, no leftover vibes. No, no absence, as though they were torn from reality itself.Kaiza clenched his jaw.That meant he was alone.With her.Mina stepped forward intentionally, her bare soles squealing against the splintered surface.It was a slow, considered movement, too unlike her usual.He saw her fingers flex, curling then extending outward like claws for a cat flexing its paw.Her lips curled in a cruel smile.“You’re frightened,” she said quietly.Kaiza tightened his grip on his sword.“Mina,” he said, voice low, steady.“F
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
