2025-08-12 16:25:05Into the Strike
The claws were inches from his chest when Kael moved. Not back. Forward. The motion caught Raze off guard. His claws raked across Kael’s shoulder instead of skewering his heart, sparks flashing where metal met flesh. Pain lanced down Kael’s arm, but he didn’t stop. The Void roared inside him. [Assimilation Initiated] Black tendrils erupted from Kael’s forearms, lashing around Raze’s cybernetic wrists before plunging into the seams where flesh met metal. The sensation was… overwhelming. Like biting into lightning and steel. Raze bellowed, swinging his arms to shake Kael off, but the tendrils dug deeper, drinking in heat, muscle memory, raw power. [Strength +2] [Skill Fragment Acquired: Shock Pulse – Grade F] The tendrils retracted in a snap, and Kael stumbled back now holding a fragment of Raze’s own cybernetic power Using the Stolen Power Raze didn’t pause. The champion charged again, fists blurring in a flurry of claw strikes. But this time, Kael felt it the rhythm, the weight, the microsecond tells in Raze’s stance. The stolen fragments of skill guided his movements. He ducked under a claw, slammed his palm into Raze’s chest, and willed the new power to activate. A blast of electrical force surged from his hand. [Shock Pulse Activated] The pulse detonated point blank, sending Raze staggering back with smoke rising from his chestplate. The crowd gasped, some cheering, others shouting curses. Kael didn’t waste the opening. He lunged forward, tendrils flashing out again. The Kill They wrapped around Raze’s throat this time, constricting like living steel. The Void’s voice filled Kael’s head, deeper, colder. “Finish him.” Raze clawed at the tendrils, ripping pieces free, but it was too late. The darkness sank into him, hollowing him from the inside out. His knees buckled. His body went limp. [Target Eliminated] [Assimilation: 100%] [Skill Acquired: Cybernetic Grapple – Grade E] [Stat Increase: Strength +4 | Endurance +3] The tendrils withdrew, leaving Raze’s corpse to collapse in the dust. The Warden’s Smile Up on the balcony, Warden Voss leaned back in his chair, lips curling in satisfaction. “Oh yes,” he murmured. “This one’s going to be very entertaining.” The Awakening As the guards dragged Raze’s body away, the System window flickered again. [Level Up: 2 → 3] [Void Energy Capacity Increased] [New Ability Available: Void Storage] Store items, weapons, or biological material in the Void for later use. Kael’s breathing slowed. His shoulder throbbed where Raze had cut him, but the pain felt distant now, drowned out by the electric thrill of new power. From the stands, the prisoners’ eyes followed him some with fear, others with calculation. Brakk was waiting at the cell door when they shoved Kael back inside. The old man’s grin was wide. “You’re not just new blood anymore. You’re a shark in a pool of guppies.” Before Kael could answer, the loudspeaker crackled. “Special match scheduled. Kael Ardan vs. The Iron Pack tomorrow.” Three opponents. No rules. The Void purred in his mind. “Feed me.”
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Chapter forty – The Beast in Chains
The Council did not sleep.Not in their halls of ivory and marble, not in their sanctuaries of law and blood. Even as their Shadows’ corpses grew cold on the wasteland cliffs, the echo of their failure reached the citadel like thunder. A ripple of panic spread through chambers where panic was forbidden.Seven Shadows sent. None returned.A name whispered in the reports. Voidbringer.The High Arbiter himself slammed his palm on the obsidian table, cracking it down the center. “Enough.” His voice rang like a hammer striking steel. “We thought him a ghost, a remnant, a mistake. Now he bleeds us openly. Do you not smell the fear spreading through our vassals?”An elder priestess leaned forward, her lips twisting with venom. “If the Shadows could not silence him, we must send something greater. Something he cannot devour.”The chamber fell silent. Every Councilor knew the cost of what she suggested. But in the silence, agreement was born.And so the Beast was unchained.The night after the
Chapter thirty nine– Shadows in the Veil
Night settled over the wastelands like a shroud of black silk, the moon a cold, silver coin floating above the scars of battle. The ashes of the Crimson Fang Clan still lingered, drifting on the wind, carrying whispers of death to every village for miles. To the common folk, those whispers were prayers. To kings and lords, they were warnings. To Kael, they were fuel.He stood at the edge of a cliff, staring at the horizon where fire still glowed faintly from the ruins of his enemies. His cloak whipped in the wind, his violet eyes reflecting the light of the dying flames. Behind him, Seris and two surviving allies Darius, the wolf blooded warrior, and Liora, the flame witch kept their distance. Not out of mistrust. Out of instinct. Kael’s aura filled the air like a predator’s growl that never faded.Seris’s voice finally broke the silence. “They’ll come for you, Kael. You know that, don’t you?”Kael didn’t turn. His fingers traced the hilt of his blade, the black steel humming faintly
Chapter thirty eight– The Beast’s Whisper
The ridge offered little comfort. The fires burned low, their smoke trailing into a starless sky. Every snap of branches in the forest below made the pack flinch, every gust of wind felt like the Dominion’s breath crawling closer. Kai had not moved since nightfall. He stood like a sentinel carved in shadow, his eyes fixed on the horizon though his mind was elsewhere buried deep in the echoes of what he had become.The whispers had started again. They came not from the trees or the wind, but from within. A low, guttural murmur in the back of his mind, curling around his thoughts like smoke. He had heard them before, in the thick of battle, when the curse clawed free. But now, in the silence, they were louder. Clearer.You need me, the voice hissed. Without me, you are nothing. Without me, they will die.Kai’s jaw clenched. He pressed his palms against his temples, willing the sound away. But the voice only grew stronger, more insistent. You think they fear you because of what you’ve do
Chapter thirty seven -Shadows of Victory
The battlefield still smoked with the scent of blood and ash. Kai stood amidst the ruins, his chest heaving, his body slick with the grime of war. Around him the cries of the wounded mingled with the groans of the dying, a chorus of agony that refused to be silenced even by the flames consuming the dead. He had won, or so it seemed, yet the taste of victory sat bitter on his tongue, laced with something darker. His claws trembled as they retracted back into his hands, his eyes flickering with the fading crimson glow of the beast within. He could feel the hollow ache in his bones, the cost of what he had unleashed, and though his enemies lay slain at his feet, he knew the true battle had only begun.Elara’s voice broke through the smoke. “Kai.” She stumbled toward him, her arm torn and her hair matted with blood. Her gaze flicked from his face to the carnage around them, and for the first time he saw fear in her eyes not of their enemies, but of him. “What did you do?”The question sli
Chapter thirty six The Price of Power
The battlefield was no longer a place of men and beasts it was a storm of carnage, a vast wasteland where the living screamed and the dead were trampled into mud and blood.Steel clashed with bone. Fire roared from shattered spell arrays. The earth itself shook beneath the weight of thousands dying in unison.Kai stood in the heart of it all. His sword dripped crimson, his Void aura spreading like an invisible plague. Wherever it touched, enemy soldiers staggered as if gravity itself was dragging them into the ground. Their blades wavered. Their limbs shook. Fear crawled into their marrow, and the Void drank it eagerly.He was no longer a boy fighting to survive. He was war incarnate.But for all his growing strength, the tide of the enemy seemed endless. The Crimson Dominion’s vanguard pressed forward with monstrous discipline. Their armor was spiked with sigils of blood magic, their war cries guttural and cruel. And leading them was a new presence, one that made even the Void whispe
Chapter thirty five The Whispering Abyss
The chamber was nothing like the others Ray had passed through. There were no jagged walls, no rotting pillars, no echoes of war that clung to the stone like lingering smoke. Here, the darkness wasn’t merely the absence of light. It was alive.It moved.A low vibration hummed through the air, as though the void itself had grown a throat and was waiting to speak. Ray’s boots crunched against the floor though what he stepped on wasn’t stone but something more organic, pliant, almost like flesh. With each step, the ground shifted slightly beneath his weight, pulsing as if it had a heartbeat.He hated it instantly.“You have come far, little vessel.”The voice did not sound from ahead, nor behind, nor above. It blossomed inside Ray’s skull, a cold whisper pressing against his eardrums from within. His body froze on instinct, his claws flexing as the instinctual growl of his wolf stirred beneath his ribs.The Void surged at the sound. His shadow writhed at his feet like oil poured into wa
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