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Bargain Infernal Episode 182: Requiem of the Damned
The air was thick with the scent of blood, sulfur, and smoke. The ground beneath Alex’s boots was slick with the remains of the creatures they had slaughtered. The rift had been sealed, but it had come at a cost a cost Alex could feel in his very bones. The abyss was still inside him, a gnawing hunger that threatened to consume everything.Helena stood beside him, her face smeared with dirt and blood, her eyes sharp, watching every movement in the distance. The battle wasn’t over yet. They had closed the rift, but the creatures had not gone quietly into the void. They were scattered, wounded but still deadly, and the hunt was far from over."Stay sharp," Alex muttered, his voice hoarse, as he scanned the desolate area around him. He could feel his hand twitching, itching to summon the abyssal energy inside of him. He kept the urge submerged. Just a little longer. They had a job to do.Helena nodded, the blade gleaming bright in what would soon be the dark light of dying day. "Fine. Do
Bargain Infernal Episode 183: Blood Tides
The skies above Alex and Helena were stained with blood-red clouds, swirling in a chaotic dance, a constant reminder of the world they now inhabited. The air was heavy, thick with the metallic scent of death. Their last victory had come at a price an unrelenting, ever-looming threat that clawed at their souls. The rift had been sealed, but the abyss had found another way. It was within them now, a festering wound that refused to heal.Alex stood motionless in the ruined landscape, his hands clenched into fists, a barely contained storm of hellfire swirling within his chest. He could feel the presence of the abyss all around him, in the cracks of the earth, in the shadows that seemed to watch from the corners of his vision. The creatures they had slain were but a fraction of the horrors that remained.Helena stood beside him, her expression hard, her blade caked in the blood of the fallen. “We can’t keep running,” she said, her voice low and steady, a cold edge to it. “The abyss isn’t
Bargain Infernal Episode 184: Inferno's Embrace
The battlefield was a slaughterhouse, the air thick with the stench of blood, sweat, and burning flesh. Alex’s heart hammered in his chest as he wiped the blood from his eyes. The abyss was closing in there was no escaping it now. The creatures had multiplied, their numbers seemingly endless. Each death fed the darkness, and it was hungry. No matter how many they killed, more would come. Alex could feel it, deep in his bones the abyss was watching, waiting for its moment to consume them both.Beside him, Helena moved like a shadow, her blade flashing in the chaos. Her expression was unreadable, but Alex could see the exhaustion in her eyes, the toll this endless battle was taking on her. She was a fighter, but even the strongest had limits.Another wave of monsters emerged from the depths, each one more grotesque than the last. These new horrors were hybrids, twisted amalgamations of man and beast, their bodies stitched together from the remains of the fallen. Their eyes glowed with a
Bargain Infernal Episode 185: The Last Stand
The ground shook as the beast lumbered toward Alex and Helena, its gargantuan, abyss-born body looming over them. Its armor spread across its frame like a living shadow, reflecting no light but only absorbing what faint little rays it could. Every molecule around it seemed to crackle with dark energy, heavy with the stench of death. This was the last card from the bottom of the abyss. There was no longer a way out.Alex stood in front, his hands closed around the sword hilt. He felt this hellish energy swirling through his veins and calling him to release everything in its entirety. To let himself succumb entirely to the darkness. But he kept it down. He was not going to be one of them. Not now.Beside him stood Helena, firm as a statue, her sword glinting under the crimson sky, bracing for what was to come. She gazed at Alex's eyes, and without speaking a word, they knew, of course, this was going to be their final battle.The creature roared, a sound so deep it shook the earth benea
Bargain Infernal Episode 186: Blood Red Horizon
The sky above was a sickly hue, like the world itself had been bruised. Thick, oppressive clouds swirled overhead, dark and churning with the remnants of the rift’s chaos. The ground was a war zone, torn and scorched, littered with bodies both human and monstrous. The air was thick with smoke and the stench of death, a grim reminder of the carnage that had unfolded and the war that still loomed ahead.Alex stood at the edge of the battlefield, battered and broken, still living and standing. The abyssal power was ebbing within him, but he could feel it now more than ever, sitting beneath his skin and ready to burst forth once again. His sword felt heavy in his palm, stained from so much blood of so many adversaries. The fire that had once burned so brightly was now dimming, but the memory of it lingered in his every breath.Beside him, Helena wiped the blood from her blade. Her face was unsmiling, but the grim determination in her eyes said enough. She had fought with all her might, cu
Bargain Infernal Episode 187: The Flames and Shadows
The fighting continued like an endless nightmare as the cycle of bloodshed and destruction went on. The gap above had shredded the very fiber of reality, opening it for waves of foul, abominable creatures pouring out, and each one that emerged was even more terrifying than the last one. The floor beneath Alex and Helena was coated with blood; the air clung heavy with the smell of death, and the dominant scream of the creature was now overpowered by crackling hellfire.Alex’s chest heaved, the infernal power within him burning, searing, urging him to release it all. His sword, now a grotesque extension of the abyss, glowed a fierce crimson, its flames crackling with an otherworldly energy. His hands were stained with the blood of demons, the heat from his strikes scorching the very earth beneath him. But there was no time for rest, no time for hesitation. The abyss was closing in, and the world, as he knew it, was slipping away.A shrill scream cut through the chaos, followed by the si
Bargain Infernal Episode 188: The Beating Heart
Blood-soaked became the battlefield theater. The soil beneath Alex's boots was slicked with blood—thick as oil, soaking deep into the ground and leaving behind dark footprints in his path. The rip above them was pulsing unnatural energy, cracking like a thousand storms brewing inside the heavens. The air was thick with the stench of death, sweat, and the metallic tang of blood, and the screams of the dying were drowned out only by the growls and shrieks of the demonic horde. Alex's heart beat in time with the chaos, each thundering pulse a reminder of what was at stake. He was no longer fighting to survive; he was fighting for the essence of the world itself.Beside him, Helena moved as if she were a blur. Her blade cut in the flickering firelight, and with every strike came a deadly movement. A demon leapt forward at her back, its mouth open wide. But she moved faster. She turned, tearing the creature's side with a fluid motion that would be lethal in one motion. It tumbled to the gr
Bargain Infernal Episode 189: The Unleashed
The ground quaked beneath Alex’s feet, the very earth trembling as the rift imploded in on itself, collapsing into a vortex of chaotic energy. The heavens above them were torn apart by a flash of blinding white light, followed by an all-encompassing darkness. For a moment, there was nothing but silence a strange, suffocating silence that hung in the air like a warning. But it was quickly shattered by the roar of the demonic horde, their shrieks rising to a fever pitch as they sensed their victory slipping away.The battle had only just begun.Alex stood firm, his sword gripped tightly in his hands, his body coated in the blood of countless demons. His breath was ragged, his muscles aching from the relentless assault, but his resolve was unwavering. The abyss had tried to swallow him whole, had tried to turn him into one of them, but it had underestimated him. Alex Mercer wasn’t some pawn to be controlled he was the Reaper, and the abyss would learn that lesson in blood.The rift was g
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Episode 224: One Final Strike
The world fractured.At the moment the boy lunged towards him, his sword clashing against the Hunter’s blade of shadow-steel, reality shattered like glass.His feet were no longer standing on solid ground.The battlefield the stars, the ruined earth pulsed, tremblied, shifting like an unënded painting.For one terrifying second He felt himself being torn in two.Not by a blade.Not by the Abyss.By time itself.He staggered back, gasping, his vision going double, reality fracturing into two separate lines of incident at once.One he stood here, fighting, existing.In the other he had never been born.Never consumed mermaid flesh.Never imagined, never suffered, never fought.Just gone."This is the correction."The Hunter’s voice remained steady, uemotional."Your existence is an error."Kaiza bared his teeth, pushing forward, screwing his sword back alight."You talk too much."And then he attacked again.The Impossible DuelThis time he moved faster.He could still taste the Abyss
Episode 223: The Last Throne
It was no longer their place of battle.The sunless sky was now a filthy mirror of a world that had perished before history.”Under Ethan and Asha’s feet, the ground shook, not with ruination but with something trying to rewrite existence itself.And the whole thing revolves aroundThe light wasn’t from this world, and now it burned behind their eyes, finally exposed by the broken perishable mask.They weren’t human.They weren’t divine.They’d been something before all of those things.And the closer they got, just their walking warped the air next to them.“You have walked too far, Hollow King.”“You’ve shattered too many chains.“And now you will see what should have been forgotten.”Ethan’s hands made fists.Asha inhaled slowly and deeply.They had no time to think.Because the First King moved.And the final battle began.Before Ethan even had the time to react, he found the First King in front of him.Their move defied space itself—not teleportation, not speed, but the here and
Episode 222: The Ones Who Devour
The sky was breaking.Helena became the epicenter of the battle that should have never been.The Firstborn were no more, their sacred monarchy rent asunder, their celestial kingdom fallen to ruin.But the universe had no love for vacant thrones.And now.It had been supplanted by something else.Reality tore, the sky splitting open like a wound that wouldn’t heal.Out from the void, they came.Not Hollowed.Not firstborn.Something else.Older than war itself, something.They did not have names.They did not have faces.They were churning, writhing aspects of the consummate void, their nacreous flesh contorting into a thousand forms at once—humanoid, monstrous, holy, forgotten.And when they spoke.It wasn’t with voices.It was with thoughts that did not belong to Helena, curling into her thoughts, unwinding her like leaves of an old book."You do not belong here."Helena’s entire body tensed.The Hollow King did not move.The Old One merely watched.Silver fire sizzled along the edge
Episode 221: The Thing That Should Not Wake
The Silence Before the EndThe battlefield was quiet.Too quiet.Helena found herself in the ruins of a war that had rewritten history. The Firstborn's God-King was vanished, their form crushed into void, their heavenly horde blown away like dust.The Hollowed had won.And yet.The heir was wrong.Heavy. Tainted.Like something was waiting.“Yup,” Cain gasped, running a bloody hand through his hair, his silver eyes showing some signs of uneasiness. “Please tell me it’s not just me that feels this.”Helena gripped her throbbing fingers, the black-fire dagger still buzzing in her hand. "You’re not."The Hollow King hadn’t budged.They froze there, their shape like a void, their head cocked slightly, listening.Helena stepped forward slowly, the ground crackling beneath her boots. The Firstborn were disappearing, their godly light blinking out like red stars in the firmament.They had lost.So why did it seem like something worse had just begun?Then.The world shifted.The Veil Splits O
Episode 220: The Forsaken vs. the Divine
Helena did not kneel.Not to kings.Not to gods.Not to the Firstborn, who had cut history to shape and made it fit.She had stood against death.She had stood against fate.And she would stand now.Even as the God-King of the Firstborn loomed before her, his celestial fire coiling in the air like an executioner’s blade.As the burden of their command bore down upon reality itself, compelling everything to bend.Helena stood tall.Her dagger blazed with black flames, oscillating between the Hollow King’s strength and something more ancient.Something that was hers and hers alone.The battlefield was silent.Even the Hollow hesitated.Because no one had ever disobeyed the Firstborn’s command and survived.Until now.The God-King’s expression did not change.They took a slow step forward, their silver eyes calm and infinite, burning with cold.“Then I will break you.”The world shattered.A void pulled inward, the air itself ripping apart as the God-King began his assault, faster than l
Episode 219: The Forsaken Queen
Helena felt everything.The Hollow King thrummed through her as she surged forward, a scintillation of wicked pleasure that burnt in her blood like a fire that would never run soft. Not only did it fill her, it transformed her.No longer was she Helena, the fighter who had resisted destiny.She was something more.Something that never was meant to exist.And as she stood at the very center of the battlefield, surrounded as she was by another ruin crumbling around her, one of a war older than time itself, she understood.The Firstborn knew it, too.They had expected a rebel.They had expected resistance.But they hadn’t expected this.They had not believed she would survive the Hollow King’s might.And they did not expect her to turn it against them.”His silver eyes, previously flooded with naught but icy apathy, now sparkled with another emotion.Fear.And Helena?Helena smiled.Then she attacked.Her movements were like a storm, her new blade slashing through the Firstborn’s ranks.
Episode 218: The Moment When the World Picked a Side
The battlefield froze.Helena’s voice still rang in the ruins, suspended in the air like a blade poised to fall."I will fight for the truth."And just like that.She had chosen a side.The Hollow King turned its void-like eyes to her, unreadable.Cain gaped, his breath ragged, his silver eyes bouncing between disbelief and something else. Something closer to fear.The Firstborn did not speak.They didn’t scream in rage or throw accusations of betrayal.Instead.They smiled.And Helena learned something a little too late.She had walked into a war older than she could understand.And each side had been waiting for her to make a choice.Now.There was no turning back.The Gods Strike FirstThe Firstborn moved first.Helena didn’t have time to react before the sky itself lit on fire.The clouds parted, hurling javelins of heavenly fire onto the battlefield. The Hollowed howled, their flesh caught alight, their bodies liquidizing beneath the assault.The pallor of the air cracked apart b
Episode 217: The Gods Must Bleed
A Sky That ShattersThe heavens collapsed.The sky literally ripped apart, opening like a wound in reality itself, and Helena hardly had time to scream. The battlefield below was engulfed in golden fire and infinite darkness, as though the universe itself was tearing in two.The Firstborn were the falling stars, their weapons blazing with heavenly fire, their silver eyes lit with righteous fury. The Hollowed howled back, their broken voices rising like a war hymn, thair void-forged blades craving vengeance.This wasn’t a battle.This was annihilation.Helena moved.She ducked, avoiding a sweep of a Firstborn warrior that cut through the air where her head had only seconds before been. The heat of their blade seared against her skin, too near, too quick.But she was faster.She spun, her dagger slicing through their divine armor, and, for the first time, she heard the sound she never thought she’d hear.A firstborn screamed.Helena’s breath hitched.She could kill them.And if she coul
Episode 216: The Ah Which Ends Worlds
A Throne of Lies, A War of TruthHelena’s breath was quick and brittle, her heart pounding against her rib cage.The Hollow King knelt before her.Not as an enemy.Not as a monster.But as a warrior awaiting a response.The gods had walked the earth before her, and the earth had been their altar. They stood behind their King, all soulless eyes on her, waiting for her to make a choice.And in the distance.Something else was coming.Something worse.Cain moaned next her, spitting blood from his mouth. “Well,” he muttered, “this complicated fast.”Helena barely heard him.Because she wasn’t looking at Cain.The throne of the Hollowed, upthrust from the ruins, split reality like a jagged wound.It was waiting for her.And deep inside, she knew.If she did that, if she chose the Hollowed, there could be no undoing it.She would not only be battling the Firstborn.She would be waging war on the very gods themselves.And it was a war no one had ever won.The Hollow King’s voice was gentle,
