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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
Chapter 748
There were two hundred and fifty Black Tower branches in the United State of Magic, and that night there was nobody in any of them.Not nobody. Twenty, at most branches. Fifty at the big ones. Caretakers and cooks and record-keepers and a duty elder who'd drawn the short straw, because every single person who could fight had been called to the field by their own tower's summons and was, at that exact moment, lying asleep on White Tower grass six hundred miles away.At the Dunmoor branch, a duty elder named Vessery stepped out into the yard at ten past one for a smoke and looked up at the sky.It was a clear night. Good stars.He stood there a full minute with his head back, breathing smoke at a sky that was not empty at all, and he did not see one single thing in it, because the things in it were painted for exactly this and had been holding position above his roof for nineteen minutes.He finished his cigarette. He went back inside....Above him, one hundred and eight of them began
Chapter 747
White magic was never fragile. Once, it stood undisputed at the pinnacle of the Seven Towers. Its downfall wasn't a flaw in the art, but in the practitioners, who abandoned true cultivation for cheap, instant strength.In the long game, white magic outshone all others; it just demanded years of refinement, and the world had grown too impatient to wait.White took the students nobody else wanted and taught them to be useful in quiet ways, and every other tower had smiled at it for so long that they'd forgotten what the colour actually was.White is the source light.Not a spell. Not an element. The thing every other kind of magic is a shadow of — and there is exactly one thing in this world that a shadow cannot survive.Black Tower had spent five hundred years building an empire out of the dark.They had just walked four thousand of it into the light....Merrick's second went for a curse and nothing came out of his hands.Nothing. Not a weak one. Not a flicker. He said the words twice
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