EPISODE 75 — The Black Arena
⚔️ EPISODE 75 — The Black Arena
🕳️ Subtitle: "The Memory of Broken Shadows"
> A battle with double stakes: two combatants linked by a forgotten past, gradually revealing a truth buried since the era of the Founders of Kaïnos.
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🎬 SCENE 1: The opening of the Black Arena — Beneath the Hall of Fallen Gods
An underground slab rises from the ground.
The arena is plunged into darkness, crossed by purple reflections and psychic crackles.
> 📣 Spectral voice:
"Here fight those who have never agreed to forget."
A giant mirror appears in the centre, reflecting the memories of the combatants to come.
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🎬 SCENE 2: Introduction of the combatants
🩶 Combatant 1: Malzen Irehn — former Kaïnos spy master, forgotten in the annals.
– Survivor of the first genocide of the Clay Tears.
– Energy: Analytical Shadows.
– Wish: "I want history to remember those it has betrayed."
Abilities:
Forbidden Technique: "Reverse Erasure" — he transforms his enemies' lost memories into tangible weapons.
Superpower: Intracranial Fragmentation — every pain experienced becomes a psychic weapon.
Counterattack: he splits into three emotional versions (anger, shame, loyalty), each fighting at the same time.
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🩶 Fighter 2: Veela Nox-Litha — forgotten descendant of a priestess of the Eclipsed Moon Cult.
– Survived the collapse of the Selenian Temple.
– Served as a neutral observer for a long time before being awakened by Memoir.
Abilities:
Forbidden Technique: "Skin Reverberation" — she makes every physical attack impossible to memorise, and therefore impossible to anticipate.
Superpower: Absolute Moon Filaments — her hair becomes blades that reflect memory.
Special Technique: Liturgy of Nothingness — a triple-voiced incantation that dissolves the enemy's emotions.
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🎬 SCENE 3: First contact — silence, strategy, evasion
The crowd remains frozen. No spectator understands the movements.
Veela moves sideways without friction, as if floating outside of time.
Malzen analyses her trajectory in real time, activating:
> "Echo of Time Fourth" — he attacks with the intention of his future self.
Invisible clash.
A trickle of blood runs down Veela's chin.
A rib explodes in Malzen's back, from a blow he never saw coming.
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🎬 SCENE 4: Dimensional fracture — memories fight in their place
The giant mirror pulses: their repressed memories become semi-real clones.
🧠 Two memories merge:
Veela as a child, offered as a ritual sacrifice.
Malzen as a student, locked up for disobeying an unjust order.
They observe each other.
Then... the memories throw themselves at each other. The psychic shock shakes the entire arena.
> 📣 Mental commentator:
"They fight in the name of what they have never been able to mourn."
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🎬 SCENE 5: Annihilation Phase
Veela enters Liturgy of Nothingness:
Three voices emerge from her throat, resonating in fractal harmonics.
Malzen's muscles become desynchronised. He falls, paralysed.
But before he dies, he activates:
> "Reverse Erasure: Final Mirror"
– He transfers his last memory into the mirror.
– The mirror projects a black wave, striking Veela.
She recoils... and freezes, terrified.
💬 Veela (low voice):
"This memory... it was me... who betrayed your brother."
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🎬 SCENE 6: Frozen Verdict
> They are both on their knees. The mirror cracks.
A voice echoes above them: Master Eron-Dhar.
💬 "The tournament does not judge the past. But it remembers it. One of you will continue. The other... will become a memory."
The mirror designates Veela Nox-Litha as the winner.
Malzen is absorbed into the fragments of the mirror, a sad smile on his face.
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🎬 SCENE 7: Spectators, whispers, and Kairos
From the stands, the elders of Kaïnos look at each other.
> 💬 Jackson Nectar:
"We no longer fight to win. We fight to be heard."
> 💬 Kairos (in a low voice):
"And I'm starting to hear truths that I myself had forgotten."
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🔚 END — EPISODE 75 — The Black Arena
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🔮 To be continued:
⚔️ EPISODE 76 — The Dome of Purified Lies
> A former chosen one returns with a truth... that could shatter the unity of Kaïnos.