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Chapter 789
The massive room at the bottom of the world was made of pure, glowing blue crystal. It was the physical core of the entire planet. It was the engine that held the laws of reality together. But the room was no longer safe. Caster Spellbound stood at the bottom of the rusty iron ladder. He stared at the monster waiting for him. Elias Thorpe laughed. His voice was a horrific, grinding sound of metal and corrupted magic.The left side of his body was heavy brass and dark steel. The Planar Fusion Core in his chest cracked and hissed, spinning with violent red and purple light. "I told you I would see you in the dark, Caster!" Thorpe roared. Thorpe had not been banished into the void. The spatial distortion had acted like a shortcut. It had teleported the madman directly into the most important room in the universe. Caster could not breathe. His heart hammered against his broken ribs. He was completely exhausted. His gray coat was soaked in mud and golden blood. He had no blue magic. T
Chapter 788
"It is a bioweapon," Caster explained. His voice was completely calm. He was explaining a science experiment, not his own death. "It is tied directly to my specific, unique magical heartbeat. It is tied to my soul."Sikoa stared at him. She slowly reached out and took the cold silver ring from his hand. "I am going to climb down the ladder," Caster said, looking deeply into Sikoa’s one good eye. "I am going to plug myself into the machine. I will start the shutdown sequence for the global network."Caster pointed a dirty finger at the silver ring in Sikoa’s hand. "While I am working, the Warden will try to take over," Caster said. "You must stand at the top of the hatch. You must watch my face carefully. If I am successful, I will shut the machine down, and I will climb back up."Caster swallowed hard. "But," Caster whispered, his voice dropping to a heavy, terrible tone. "If the pale gray fire returns to my eyes. If the black ash covers my face. If you see the monster take control
Chapter 787
"It will not just be a monster walking on the earth," Caster said softly. "It will be the earth. It will impose absolute, freezing, silent peace on everything. All life will turn to gray ash. The world will become a perfect, dead cemetery."The silence in the Grand Archive was suffocating. Sikoa and Solon stared at the old man. They stared at the dark iron hatch on the floor. It was the ultimate, impossible paradox. If Caster did not go down the ladder and plug into the core, the timer would unfreeze. The massive planar friction would shatter the planet into atomic dust. Everyone would die. If Caster did go down the ladder and plug into the core, the Ash Warden would steal his body, hijack the network, and turn the planet into a dead, silent graveyard of ash. Everyone would die. "We cannot let you do it," Sikoa said suddenly. She stood up. She grabbed her daggers. "There has to be another way! Solon, you read the books! How else do we shut the machine down?""There is no other way
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Caster lifted his scarred, burned hands. "Every time I used my 'golden magic' to compress those batteries," Caster whispered, "I was actually opening a door in my soul. The tiny fragment of the Warden inside me drank the dark radiation from the batteries. It drank the cold entropy. It was like feeding raw meat to a starving wolf."Sikoa gasped. "General Verne’s weapons factory... it wasn't just building bombs. It was an incubator. It was growing the god inside you.""Yes," Caster nodded. "But the purple batteries were only the beginning."Caster looked at Solon. "The real feast started when the war began," Caster said. "When Elias Thorpe marched his Crimson Engine across the plains. When his chaotic red blood magic crashed into the cold purple magic of the Glassview cannons.""The planar explosion," Solon whispered. "The explosion ripped the sky open," Caster said. "It caused the ancient Blackthorn Network to reboot automatically. Millions of minor rifts opened across the continent
Chapter 785
Caster did not look up. He kept his face buried in his hands. His shoulders began to shake. A quiet, terrible sobbing sound filled the room. The greatest Archmage in the history of the world, the man who had faced armies and monsters without blinking, was crying. His composure was completely broken. "I am sorry," Caster wept. His voice was muffled behind his dirty hands. "I am so sorry, Sikoa."Sikoa knelt down in front of him. She gently reached out and touched his knee. "It is okay, old man," Sikoa said quietly. "You fought it off. You are still you.""I am not," Caster cried. He slowly lowered his hands. His face was a mask of pure, absolute despair. "You were right, Sikoa. You were right when you looked at the scanner. The machine did not lie. I am carrying the monster."Solon slowly limped down from the balcony. He walked across the solid light bridge and joined them on the central platform. The tall archivist sat down heavily on the floor, holding his bleeding chest. "How, Ca
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The dark hand reached out. It was covered in swirling, pitch-black ash. The fingers ended in sharp, freezing shadows. The hand moved straight toward Sikoa’s throat. Sikoa was frozen in place. She knelt on the smooth white stone floor of the Grand Archive. She stared up at the man who used to be her friend. Caster Spellbound’s face was completely blank. His eyes were missing. In their place, two terrifying, pale gray flames burned with the cold, dead light of the Ash Warden. "The vessel is mine," the heavy, grinding voice of the dark god echoed from Caster’s lips. "And the judgment begins."The black hand was only one inch away from Sikoa’s skin. The freezing cold radiated from the dark magic. Sikoa could feel the skin on her neck turning numb. She closed her one good eye. She prepared to die. Suddenly, a loud, terribly human scream ripped through the silent room. "NO!" It was Caster’s voice. It did not sound like grinding stone. It sounded like an old, broken man screaming in abso
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