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Chapter 465
It did not just break and fall to the floor. The white marble peeled away like dry, dead skin. Big chunks of stone hit the ground, revealing what was hiding underneath.It was not a stone statue anymore.Underneath the white marble, a new body was forming. It was made entirely of thick, dark gray ash.The ash was compressed so tightly it looked like solid iron. But it was constantly moving, swirling and smoking around the edges. The giant knight did not have a human face. Under its gray ash helmet, there was only empty darkness, with two glowing purple holes where its eyes should be.CRACK. CRASH. BOOM.All around the massive room, the other forty-nine statues began to break. The beautiful white marble shattered.Fifty giant Ashbound Sentinels stepped down from their stone bases.They were huge. They were silent. They held massive swords made of solid, sharp dark magic.Caster grabbed Lysane’s arm and pulled her behind a fallen chunk of white marble. They crouched in the dark, holding
Chapter 464
The glass and bronze lift moved down. It was leaving the clean, freezing air of the Sky Observatory. It was leaving the beautiful, indifferent stars. It was dropping back down into the dark, screaming world below.Caster Spellbound stood by the glass door. He looked down. The massive, thick cloud of dark gray ash rushed up to meet them. It looked like a boiling, dirty ocean. In a few seconds, the lift plunged right into the cloud.The bright starlight vanished. Everything outside the glass turned pitch black.Inside the lift, the only light came from the dark, glowing black veins on Caster’s arms. The closer they got to the earth, the harder his heart beat. The heavy, terrible pressure inside his blood was returning. The Ash Warden was waiting for him.Archmage Lysane stood behind him. She held the heavy Foundations book tightly against her chest. She watched the black veins glowing under Caster’s pale skin."How much time do we have?" Lysane asked. Her voice was very quiet in the sm
Chapter 463
The thick, black beam of magic shooting out of the telescope gave one final, sick sputter, and then it died.The telescope went completely dark. The clear glass lenses inside shattered into a million pieces. The sound of breaking glass was sharp and terrible.TINK. TINK. CRASH.The pieces of broken glass fell out of the viewing ports and hit the blue stone floor.The venting had stopped. The pipe was closed."No," Lysane whispered. She backed away from the broken brass machine. "No, no, no."The silence on the mountain peak returned. The cold wind blew against their faces.But the silence did not last long.Down below, miles away in the dark, dying city, the pressure inside the Mana Core reached its absolute limit. The dark ash had nowhere to go. The bomb was fully loaded.DOOOOOOOOOOM.It was not a sound you could hear with your ears. It was a sound you felt in your soul.It was a massive, violent shockwave.It started at the very bottom of the Sage Tower. It rippled outward. It tore
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Lysane looked at him. Her dark eyes were full of a strange, deep sadness. "But what about tomorrow, Caster?" she asked. "The stars... you saw them. The universe is consequence. Even if the people run into the mountains... the Warden will just follow them. How do you fight the sky?""I don't know," Caster admitted. He looked at his own dirty hands. "I spent my whole life studying the deep earth. I never looked up. I was a fool.""We were all fools," Lysane said. She wrapped her arms around her knees, trying to stay warm in the freezing mountain air. "Archmage Vane thought he was a god. And now the real god is awake."They sat in silence for a few minutes.Above them, the brass telescope hummed a steady, deep tune. The dark magic continued to flow up and out, breaking into beautiful, deadly arcs of purple and gray light. The danger seemed to be passing.But a law of nature does not sleep. And a perfect machine does not like to be broken.Clank.The sound was small. It came from inside t
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Caster Spellbound stayed on his knees on the cold, dark blue stone. He stared straight up into the endless night.High above the world, the bright white stars had moved. They had slid across the black emptiness of space. They had formed a massive, perfect circle. Inside the circle was a deep, terrible void. It was the exact shape of the Ash Warden.The universe itself was looking down at them."Lysane," Caster whispered. His voice was broken. "The sky... it is the same shape."Lysane stood frozen beside the giant brass telescope. She dropped her hands from the heavy metal wheel. She looked up at the stars. Her dark eyes were wide with total horror.The massive beam of pitch-black magic was still shooting out of the telescope. It was carrying the terrible, toxic pressure from the Tower’s Mana Core straight up into space. But it was not disappearing into empty nothingness. It was flying directly into the center of the star-shaped monster.The universe was drinking the dark magic."It is
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Lysane walked over to him. She pulled a long, sharp silver knife from her belt."We cannot use normal mana," Lysane said. "The Warden will block it. We have to use a signature the Warden recognizes. We have to use your tether, Caster."Caster nodded. He held out his right hand.Lysane took his hand. She did not hesitate. She pressed the sharp edge of the silver knife against his palm and dragged it across his skin.Caster hissed in pain. Bright red blood welled up from the cut.But almost instantly, the blood changed.The dark gray ash inside Caster’s soul rushed to the wound. The red blood turned thick and black. It looked like liquid shadow."Press it to the silver line," Lysane instructed.Caster knelt. He pressed his bleeding, black palm directly onto the main silver line carved into the dark blue stone.He closed his eyes.He pushed his mind all the way down. Down past the high mountain peak. Down past the screaming city. Down through the cracked, breaking white marble of the Sag
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