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"Archmage Spellbound!" the guard shouted, pounding on the heavy steel door. "Step away from the forge! Put your hands on your head! We have Archmage Lysane!"Caster’s heart completely stopped beating. The heavy iron hammer slipped from his tired fingers. It hit the concrete floor with a loud, ringing CLANG. He stood frozen in his dark laboratory. The red magical alarm lights flashed in the hallway outside, casting harsh, bloody shadows through the small barred window in his door. Lysane was captured. The velvet trap had finally snapped shut. Caster had done everything General Verne asked. He had built the dark purple batteries. He had built the glowing blue Resonant Shards. He had played the part of the obedient, defeated old man. And it had not been enough. General Verne’s assassins had found the brave woman with the snow-white hair. "Open the door!" the guard roared, kicking the steel. Caster took a deep, shaky breath. He forced his panic down into the dark. He could not let th
Chapter 612
"I didn't need your help," Elias hissed through his broken, bleeding lips. His voice was full of venom. "I could have controlled it.""Elias, it was going to kill you," Caster said softly, reaching a hand out. "Do not touch me!" Elias slapped Caster’s hand away. He stood up on shaking legs. He glared down at Caster. "You just wanted to look like the savior. You wanted them to know you are the good boy and I am the monster. I will never forgive you for this, Caster. I will never forget."Elias turned around, grabbed his bag, and walked out of the room. He walked out of the Sage Tower, and he walked out of Caster’s life for a hundred years. CLANG! The heavy, real-world sound of the iron hammer hitting the anvil snapped Caster back to the present. The vision faded instantly. The smell of clean marble vanished, replaced by the choking smell of burning sulfur and coal in the War Foundry. Caster stood in his concrete laboratory at Fort Ironcliff. Sweat dripped from his chin. His chest
Chapter 611
The chaotic magic fought him. It sliced his blue robes to shreds. It cut his arms. But Caster pushed through the pain. He reached Elias. Caster threw his arms around Elias’s floating body. He grabbed his friend tightly in a desperate hug. "I've got you," Caster shouted in Elias’s ear. Then, Caster became the grounding rod. He pushed his own clean, pure blue magic directly into the chaotic red storm. He forced his own stable soul to connect with Elias’s wild, broken spell. The reaction was immediate and absolutely devastating. KRA-KOOM! The wild red magic found a path. It rushed out of the glass flask, flowed through Elias’s blood, and slammed directly into Caster’s body. Caster screamed. The pain was infinitely worse than burning. The wild magic felt like a thousand sharp needles piercing his very soul. It tried to mutate his heart. It tried to tear his mind in half. But Caster held on. He gritted his teeth. He planted his bare feet firmly on the floating floorboards. He for
Chapter 610
Elias stepped around the table. He stood very close to Caster. He lowered his voice so the other students in the large room could not hear him. "I have been reading the forbidden texts in the lower basement," Elias whispered. His eyes danced with a dangerous, forbidden thrill. Caster frowned. "The Pre-Blackthorn texts? Elias, those books are sealed for a reason. The magic in them is unstable. It requires blood. It requires taking life to make power.""It requires sacrifice to achieve greatness!" Elias corrected him. "Listen to me, Caster. I have figured out a way to create a perpetual energy loop. An engine that never stops. We would not have to pull from the leylines anymore. We could generate our own infinite power."Caster felt a cold chill run down his spine. "Infinite power violates the law of consequence. Where does the energy come from, Elias?"Elias smiled a dark, secret smile. "It comes from inside us. The human soul is a battery, Caster. If you mix a drop of your own livin
Chapter 609
CLANG. The heavy iron hammer hit the red-hot steel. Bright orange sparks flew into the dark air. CLANG. Caster Spellbound stood in the corner of his concrete laboratory inside Fort Ironcliff. The room was terribly hot. He had asked General Verne’s soldiers to bring him a small forge, an anvil, and tools. They gave him what he wanted because they thought he was building weapons for them. CLANG. Caster raised the hammer again. His old, thin arms shook. Sweat poured down his wrinkled face. His gray shirt was completely soaked. His broken ribs screamed with pain every time he swung his arms, but he did not stop. He forced himself to keep working. He was not building a gun. He was building a trap for Elias Thorpe. CLANG. The sound was loud and steady. It was a perfect, rhythmic beat. As Caster brought the hammer down again and again, the sound began to change inside his tired mind. The loud, heavy CLANG of the dirty military forge slowly turned into a sharp, clean TINK. Tink. Tin
Chapter 608
The giant face smiled one last, terrifying time. "I will see you soon, old friend," Thorpe whispered. The whisper was incredibly quiet, but it echoed perfectly in Caster’s ears. Then, the red light exploded. BZZZZ-CRASH! The broadcast ended violently. The massive red communication crystals hanging from the factory ceiling could not handle the hostile magic anymore. The crystals shattered. Thousands of sharp pieces of broken red glass rained down onto the factory floor. The workers screamed and covered their heads. The dark, swirling smoke vanished into thin air. The War Foundry plunged into sudden, dark, heavy silence. The only sound was the crackle of the hot furnaces and the quiet sobbing of a terrified worker. General Verne stood on the balcony. Her face was completely red with fury. Her chest heaved. She turned to Chief Artificer Vane. "Why did you not stop the signal?!" Verne screamed at the top of her lungs. She raised her silver sword and slammed the flat side of the b
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