EPISODE 65 — The Last Step in the Mud
⚔️ EPISODE 65 — The Last Step in the Mud
📛 Subtitle: "The Body Ends, But Not the Will"
🎖️ Round 5/5 — Last breath of the Eclipse-777 vs Kalkhem duel
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🎬 SCENE 1: Preparation for the Final Round
📍 Brutal Ground Arena — collapsed ground, unstable gravity
The two combatants crawl to their feet. The audience holds its breath. Pools of blood, cracks in the air, echoes of broken bones in every silence.
📣 The Arena Judge:
> "Final Round. All powers are permitted, except those prohibited by divine class."
⚠️ The red spotlights activate. The temperature drops to -15°C.
The atmosphere is saturated with mental dust and waves of pain.
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🎬 SCENE 2: Kalkhem's Last Cry
🔥 Kalkhem spits black blood, his legs broken.
He screams as he activates his final technique:
> 🩸 "Resurrection of the First Beast" —
He merges with his most painful memory: his tortured childhood in the swamps of Trelok.
His body becomes rough, covered in red-purple fibres, his veins pulsing like snakes.
🎯 Effects: – Power x4 for 33 seconds
– Anaesthetised pain
– Reversed vision (sees emotions instead of bodies)
He charges forward. Each step fractures the ground.
Each scream twists the air around Eclipse.
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🎬 SCENE 3: Eclipse rises — the final breath
💢 Eclipse-777 clenches her trembling arms. Her ribs are dislocated, her left arm hangs like a rag.
But she speaks:
💬 "What you don't understand, Kalkhem... is that this world killed me a hundred times before you did."
She activates her final spiritual technique, never mastered until now:
> 🌌 "Song of the Fragmented Origin" —
Each broken memory becomes a sharp shard. Her aura explodes into billions of blade-like particles.
She becomes a deadly moving cloud.
Her muscles burn away, but her soul crystallises.
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🎬 SCENE 4: Body against memory — the ultimate clash
They lunge at each other.
💥 Kalkhem strikes with raw, animalistic physical force.
💥 Eclipse slices through each trajectory with a shower of memory shards.
👁️ The audience sees: – Blood rising like steam – Memories screamed into the air ("Mum!", "Kairos!", "There's no escape now!") – The arena collapsing in stages
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🎬 SCENE 5: The Final Blow
⏳ 3 seconds suspended.
Kalkhem rushes headfirst.
Eclipse jumps with one hand, spins, and plunges a spiritual blade into his opponent's throat.
But he grabs her arm and pierces her side with a crystallised bone.
They fall together, back to back.
Silence.
Two silhouettes... motionless.
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🎬 SCENE 6: The Verdict
📣 The Judge descends.
He approaches... observes.
> Eclipse is breathing. Very weakly.
Kalkhem... is no longer moving.
🗣️ Judge:
> "Victory... Eclipse-777. By absolute cessation of movement."
⚕️ The spiritual healers arrive urgently.
💬 Bella Zena (tribune):
> "She survived... but at what cost?"
💬 Champlain Iᵉʳ:
> "The tournament is killing us all. And we accept it."
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🎬 SCENE 7: Battle epilogue — Champlain & Kairos
Kairos approaches Champlain in the antechamber.
💬 Kairos:
> "Next time, I'm going up. If we wait any longer, this tournament will be nothing more than a graveyard of memories."
💬 Champlain:
> "Then go. But be prepared to face someone worse than Kalkhem."
Kairos looks at the screen. The name of his next opponent flashes:
> Zöniel – Bearer of Nothingness
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🕯️ END — EPISODE 65
A brutal, tactical, comprehensive battle. Pain, memories, tactics, nothing is forgotten.
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🔮 To be continued:
EPISODE 66 — The Judgement of the Void
> "Zöniel is not a warrior. He is a warning."