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Chapter 754
Red Tower had three hundred red tower and thirty thousand magicians in the Arcanum State.That night, there were almost none of them in a Red Tower.…It was not carelessness. It was the business.Red sells fire by the month. Every forge, every bakery oven, every kitchen stove in the state runs on a flame-charm, and a flame-charm has to be renewed by hand, at the customer’s door, by a man who walks there.Red’s people lived in their own houses. They slept above shops in the market districts, in rented rooms near the harbour, in cottages on the roads out east, so they could be at the first door by seven in the morning on the first of the month."White Tower had summoned every fighter drone, every ex-black-magic recruit, it commanded to attack all of the Red towers."Red Tower never summoned anybody, because it was ambushed.…At the Halloway branch there were twenty-six people inside at midnight.Four cooks. Nine record-keepers. Two men on the gate. A duty elder named Corliss who had d
Chapter 753
Six hours earlier, on the roof of the Regent Group building, a machine the size of a carriage was running in the dark.No lights on it. No sound except a low hum you felt in your teeth.Gaia the Mother AI had gone up the week after thirty men climbed the east stairwell, and it had not been switched off since. Every drone over the White Tower answered it.Every drone over the Regent building. Every drone in the Arcanum State, all the way out to the coast.Alex stood in front of it with his hands in his pockets.“Say it again,” he said.“Two hundred and ninety-six,” Gaia said. “Moving out of the Red Tower’s north gate in nine groups. They are not travelling together and they are not travelling as magicians.”“Where are they going?”“Every route converges on the banquet grounds. Estimated arrival, twenty-one forty.”“Two hundred and ninety-six.” Alex almost smiled. “He rounded up.”…Beatrix found him there twenty minutes later with her coat still on.“Cancel it,” she said.“No.”“Alex,
Chapter 752
For two days the United State of Magic could not talk about anything else, and it kept getting stuck on the same three things.The first was simply that Black had lost.Every person in that country had gone to bed that night knowing how it would end.Thirty thousand magicians against a school for poor children. Two hundred and fifty branches against thirty.Nobody had even been able to get odds on it, because nobody would take the other side.They woke up and Black Tower did not exist.The second thing was worse, in a way, because it was so hard to hold in the head.It had taken one night. Not a siege.Not a season of skirmishes and lawyers and negotiated withdrawals, the way tower wars had always gone.Six and a half hours, start to finish, and by sunrise two hundred and fifty black buildings were standing in white paint with white light burning gently in their grounds.People drove out to look at them. Whole families, in the middle of the week. There were queues on the Dunmoor road.
Chapter 751
"Do not waste words—attack him together!" another elder barked. In an instant, all five raised their hands in sync, channeling their murderous qi into a devastating coordinated strike.Alex watched five old men raise their hands and understood, with complete clarity and no particular drama about it, that he was going to die.There was nothing left.He had put all of it into a dragon's skull an hour ago.He could lift the sword or he could stay standing, and he could not do both, and five men who had been sealed under a floor for thirty years were about to hit him with everything a five-hundred-year-old tower had thought worth saving for the end of the world.He got the blade up anyway.Habit, mostly.The five strikes came at him across the broken courtyard.And went out.Not blocked. Not turned. They came apart in mid-air about eight feet from him, unravelling into nothing at all, and what was left of them fell as harmless grey dust across the flagstones.White light was pouring in fr
Chapter 750
Nobody in the Arcanum State slept that night.By two in the morning it was the only story in the country, and it was still pitch dark, and that was somehow worse — every picture coming in was a picture of something happening in the middle of the night, half-lit, shaky, filmed by people who should have been in bed six hours ago and were instead standing in fields.Every paper had someone outside a tower gate.The state broadcaster had gone to continuous coverage at eleven and never gone back.There were forty people camped on the ridge above the Black Tower headquarters with long-lenses and no light to use them in, and a smaller crowd outside the White Tower in New Avalon with nothing to film at all, because the White Tower was dark and quiet and had been all night.And there was betting, all of it done before the sun went down.Open, loud, entirely legal betting in every hall and market in the country, on a war that at midnight had been three hours from starting.Black had two hundred
Chapter 749
The old man never saw the sword’s attack.He was still looking up with his arms spread when something moved through the space above him, and then the forty tons of stone he was holding in the air came down all at once, because there was nobody holding it anymore.His head was on the flagstones before the slabs finished falling.The other four did not move for a full second.That second was all they had. They'd been standing behind him for twenty minutes doing nothing, because they hadn't needed to do anything — he was the one who could attack the machines, and the four of them had spent the whole fight watching him work and feeling safe.The drones came in off the wall.The nearest man got two words of a hex out before the needle took him in the jaw. The second turned and ran and made it eleven steps. The third and fourth went down back to back in the middle of the yard with their hands still up, and the whole thing was finished so fast that the dust from the falling stone hadn't sett
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