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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
Tides Of Eternity Episode 62: The Devourer’s Awakening
The walls of the temple shuddered, the wind wailing like a choir of damned. Kaiza sat amid the darkened remnants, hand clutching his sword hilt, mind still replaying the Wraithborn leader’s warning.“You can’t run away forever, Kaiza. "The Wraithborn never forget."Mina was sitting opposite him, flickers of her golden flames dancing across her palms. Her body was coiled, fatigue settling on her shoulders, but her eyes were sharp with resolve. She hadn’t said a word since they’d escaped, but the fear in her eyes was obvious.The stranger, still wrapped in their ghostly air, stood at the temple’s entrance, searching the darkness. All they had given were vague answers cryptic warnings about the Wraithborn and the soon-to-be war.Kaiza broke the silence. “For all your talk of balance, the Wraithborn don’t seem like the sort to care.” What the hell do they really want?”The silver eyes of the stranger stared out from under the hood. "They want to devour you."Mina’s breath hitched. "Devour
Tides Of Eternity Episode 63: The Crimson Dirge
The air was heavy with the smell of blood and smoke. All the sacred ruins of the battlefield had been desecrated; a number of bodies were scattered like broken dolls, while their souls were torn out of existence. The shattered stone pillars were howling a hollow wind that carried the whispers of the dead.They had fallen before him, and he stood in the wreckage, his blade still glimmering with the remnants of those he had slain. Sir Mina was right behind him, golden flames still trailing her in rebellion. They had only just endured the assault of the Order of the Hollow, yet the fight was far from over.And there was the darkened figure from earlier too, still far away in the distance, draped under a cloak. But Kaiza noticed something much worse.Through the ruins, there was a slow, deliberate clap.Then from the shadows stepped a man in red armor, gold symbols carved into its surface, crackling with dark energy. His features were hidden behind a distorted mask, but his power was oppr
Tides Of Eternity Episode 64: The Broken Moon
Something ancient and awakened trembled under the battlefield.Kaiza rose, his form shrouded in darkness; a freshly cast weapon spoke to him in his palms. It pulsed with living energy, the blade jagged and obsidian-black, tendrils of silver light running through its structure like blood through veins.Veydras, the Crimson Dirge, sat opposite him, intrigued. The runes that once lit with self-evident purpose flickered through his crimson armor, and the names of his enemies lit in the fragile light of the broken moon, but now there was a pause.A hesitation.“Finally, you have made the first step,” Veydras muttered, his voice a guttural growl. “Do you even realize what you’ve done?”Kaiza didn't respond. He didn’t need to. It was the strongest burst of energy he had ever experienced. It wasn’t human.Mina, still gasping, eyed him warily. His presence now felt wrong. The Kaiza she had known was still there only something else had awakened within him.Veydras chuckled. "The abyss has touch
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
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Chapter 149: The End of the Rewrite
The end of the world.Again.But this time, Kaiza was awake for it.The sky was cleaved in two, black fire seeping through the fissures in reality.Time had turned non-linear, dripping in slow drips, shattering like glass.And standing at the center of the unraveling was him.The Version That Should Not Be.A Kaiza created out of rewritten history, impossibility, and sheer consequence.He stood quietly under the shattered stars, gold eyes shining with the burden of all possible destinies."You attempted to save them," he murmured. "And in that, you destroyed the balance."Kaiza did not speak. His sword was at his hip. His body was ripped apart, his breathing shallow. But his eyes.His eyes blazed like stars."What are you?" Kaiza finally spoke.The other Kaiza smiled."I am the answer to your question."He spun, arms open to the devastation."You asked if fate was something you could rewrite. I am your answer. I am what occurs when it is."A voice."Kaiza."Soryn.She was returned.Sh
Chapter 148:The War of Existence
The sky was torn apart.Not like an explosion.Not like thunder.But like the very fabric of sound itself, it ripped asunder.Kaiza didn't even have the moment to blink before the entity shifted.Not with power.Not with speed.But with absolute, mindless inevitability.It didn't attack in the sense that an enemy would.It redefined the battlefield.In one instantKaiza was standing on solid earth.He was tumbling into a chasm of shattered timelines, each one splintering away like delicate glass.His golden flames flickered, fighting against the force pulling him down.He froze.Not because he caught himself.Not because he landed.Because the entity demanded it.Kaiza growled."You think you can control me?"The entity's voice surrounded him."I already do."And thenThe world crumbled.Kaiza balled his fists as the rules of reality warped around him.The entity's golden-black fire engulfed everything.Shredding the battlefield, reforming it in real-time.The sky turned into an ocean
Chapter 147: The Collapse of Reality
The sky tore apart.Not like lightning.Not like a storm.Like glass breaking.The Hollow City shattered, shattering into a thousand reflective shards, each one revealing a different possibility.Some revealed Kaiza triumphant, golden flames in his grasp, the entity dissolving to dust.Others revealed Kaiza was gone, nothing but a memory of what had been.But the worst onesThe ones that made his chest constrictRevealed the world lost.Not destroyed.Never having been at all.The thing moved first.One moment, it stood before him.Next, it was all around him.A dozen forms of itself blurred in and out of existence, attacking from various directions simultaneously.Each sword is pointing for Kaiza's heart.But Kaiza didn't even blink.He didn't need to react.Because nowHe knew the game."You don't get to decide anymore."Kaiza reached out with his will, his mind, his very soul.And reality listened.In an instantEvery version of the entity vanished.Not because Kaiza dodged.Not bec
Chapter 146: The War of Unmaking
The world ended.Not in flames.Not in ruin.In nothingness.The streets of the Hollow City disappeared.The sky overhead ceased to exist.The air itself wavering, as if a memory attempting to remember its own presence.Kaiza alone in the center of it all a solitary figure against an adversary that was not meant to exist.His golden eyes ablaze.But for the first time everHe wasn't certain if he existed anymore.The figure in front of him his distorted reflection grinned."You're beginning to comprehend, aren't you?"Kaiza clutched his sword tighter."I comprehend that you speak too damn much."The figure chuckled."Like a man who doesn't know he's already lost."And thenIt moved.Kaiza had barely enough time to respond.The instant the entity charged, the very fabric of reality unraveled.Not with force.Not with power.With certainty.Wherever the entity stepped, the world no longer was.The Hollow City disappeared in patches, chunks of buildings, strips of sky—all vanishing in a
Chapter 145: A King Without a Throne
For the first time in five centuries, the Hollow City was silent.No screaming.No war.No whispering darkness hiding in the cracks of reality.Kaiza stood in the middle of it all free.The Abyss was gone.Not locked away.Not hiding in the shadows.Gone.He had done the impossible.He had rejected it.Not by fighting it.Not by dominating it.But by letting go.And yet something did not feel right.Kaiza let out a sharp breath, rolling his shoulders.His body felt lighter.As if he had lost something he had carried around for so long that he didn't even know what it felt like to not have it.The Abyss had been integrated into his very being.And now, without it…Who was he?Kaiza tightened his fists."Is this what freedom is meant to feel like?"Because it didn't feel good.It felt empty.Like he had been opened up and something had been torn out.Something that, terrible as it was, had at least been a part of him.Kaiza's golden eyes blazed, but there was no abyssal fire burning in
Chapter 144: When Titans Collide
A howl of unleashed darkness erupted from under the Hollow City.The earth cleaved open, a torn edge slashing through stone, spewing out coils of abyssal flame into the air.And out of that tear something stirs.Something immense.Something ancient.Kaiza stood upon the ruined battlefield, his gold eyes fixed on the churning whirlpool of darkness that had burst forth from his own blow.He'd done it.He'd awakened the Abyss.And now he had to make it through."Every last one of you, move!" Kaiza bellowed.But it was already too late.A brutal shockwave erupted outward, shattering the Hollow City and leveling buildings to rubble.The air itself cracked, reality fighting to maintain its shape as the Abyss awakened from its deep sleep.The sky contorted, folding in upon itself, and Kaiza could sense it.The Abyss was hungry.And it had waited too long.The First Hunger awakened.The impossibly huge hand, black and smeared with shifting constellations of void, faltered for the first time.
Chapter 145: The Choice That Ends a Kingdom
Kaiza's breathing came sharp and jagged.His fingers were constricted around the wrist of his other self, the King of the Hollow City.The battle's weight still resonated in his bones, his muscles crying out from the fight, which had transcended time itself.And yet he did not attack.The king sneered, golden eyes flashing with dark pleasure."What's wrong?""This is what you wanted, isn't it?"Kaiza's hold grew tighter.He could finish it now.A single strike. A single cut.Erase this alternate version of himself.Reclaim the Hollow City as his own.But the longer he stared into his own twisted reflection, the clearer it became.This wasn’t just about a throne.This was about who he would become."Damn it."His golden eyes flashed."I’m not you."And that was the moment he made his choice.A King Must FallKaiza let go.The king swayed a little, his sneer failing for the first time."What?"Kaiza took a step back, sheathing his sword."I don't need to kill you to win."The throne room
Chapter 144: The War of Kings
Kaiza stumbled forward, his breathing labored, his heart pounding in his ears.The Hollow City lay before him, but it was not the same Hollow City he remembered.It was unmarred by war.The towers rose high, spires reaching into a moonlit sky that should not be.The streets were spotless, thronged with moving people walking, speaking, and living.For an instant, Kaiza couldn't catch his breath.This was impossible.It had never been true.It had never been anything more than a dream."And yet here I am."A weight, heavy as lead, dropped into his chest.He had rewritten destiny.The Abyss had never swallowed this city.The Hunters had never been forgotten.And he had never turned into a monster.Kaiza let out a harsh breath, raking a hand through his dark, sweat-matted hair."So what the hell do we do now?"The Harbinger's Warning"Kaiza."The voice was low, even.He turned to glance at the Harbinger, who stood a few steps behind him, silver eyes acute, expressionless.He hadn't budged
Chapter 143: A War Against the Unwritten
The darkness engulfed Kaiza entirely.In one instant, he stood before his previous self, the Hollow City intact, reality itself refusing to believe that history had been altered.The next.He was plummeting.Not bodily.Not through air, or chronology, or even the Abyss.But through something deeper.Something older.Something that should not exist.Something that had waited.And at its center something watched.Kaiza's body struck solid earth, but it felt nothing like the real world.The sky, or what passed for a sky, was a chasm of writhing shapes and wisps.The air tasted too thick, weighing upon him like a thousand invisible fingers.He pushed himself up, his golden eyes furrowing as he turned.And then.He saw it.The figure.It stood where his former self had once stood, regarding him with a look that belonged to no living thing.Kaiza had battled gods.He had fought the Abyss.He had witnessed things without a name.But this.This thing was wrong.Not as the Abyss was.Not as the
