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Chapter 746
Caster felt a heavy, numb sadness. His oldest friend was gone. "Caster!" A sharp, panicked voice called his name. Caster turned his head. Sikoa was sitting up on the metal extraction table. Her arms were bleeding from where the needles had been torn out, but she was alive. The heavy iron cuffs holding her wrists and ankles had popped open when the main power console exploded. She was pointing frantically at the center of the room. "The machine!" Sikoa yelled. "Caster, look at the machine!"Caster looked. The giant Core Array was not spinning anymore. The heavy brass rings were bent and broken. The glass cylinders were shattered. But the machine was not dead. It was incredibly unstable. The massive metal pillar in the exact center of the machine, the main containment unit holding all the compressed purple necrotic ash and red blood magic, was glowing. It was glowing with a blinding, sick, pulsing white light. The machine was making a new sound. It was not a low hum. It was a ter
Chapter 745
The giant Core Array let out a terrible, groaning, sickening sound. The massive brass rings suddenly shuddered. The perfect, smooth spinning motion completely broke. The heavy metal gears ground against each other, shooting sparks the size of campfires across the laboratory. "No!" Elias Thorpe screamed from the balcony. His green eye widened in absolute panic. The machine was choking. The energy was reversing. Because the blue crystals were deflecting the pull, the machine could no longer hold onto the trapped souls. The dark, evil grip of the blood magic was broken by the violent feedback. The first thick glass cylinder attached to the spinning rings shattered. Dozens of glass cylinders exploded all at once. The sound of breaking glass filled the massive room like a terrible rainstorm. The innocent human souls were finally free. The sick, screaming red light instantly faded. As the souls escaped the corrupted blood magic, their color changed. They turned back into pure, beaut
Chapter 744
"You cannot fight a hurricane by punching the wind," Caster whispered to himself. His voice was weak, but his mind was sharp as a razor. If he could not overpower the machine, he had to trick it. He had to use alchemy. Alchemy is the science of balance. It is the science of reactions. Caster struggled against the tight red chains wrapped around his chest. He managed to move his right arm just a few inches. He pushed his hand slowly, painfully, down into the deep pocket of his dark gray military coat. His fingers brushed against cold, hard glass. When he had left his secret laboratory in Fort Ironcliff, he had filled his pockets with the tools he needed. He pulled his hand out. Clutched in his trembling, dirty fingers were five small, diamond-shaped crystals. They were the Resonant Shards. They were the beautiful, glowing blue crystals he had invented to protect General Verne’s soldiers. The crystals were designed to match a human heartbeat and create a localized, deflecting shie
Chapter 743
Caster Spellbound dove headfirst into the roaring red fire. He did not fight the heavy, magical chains wrapped around his throat and his arms. He let the giant machine pull him in. He aimed his entire body directly into the open, screaming mouth of the soul-furnace. But Caster did not go quietly. As he flew through the hot air, the golden seed inside his chest exploded with power. His eyes burned with solid, blinding golden light. The divine magic wrapped around his frail, old body like a suit of unbreakable armor. It was the pure magic of absolute truth. The golden light hit the screaming, chaotic red fire of the furnace. Two impossible, unstoppable laws of nature crashed into each other. The collision did not create a normal explosion. It created a massive, repelling shockwave. The pure golden truth absolutely refused to mix with the evil, corrupted blood magic. The two energies fought violently for exactly one millisecond. The force of the rejection was incredible. Caster was
Chapter 742
"How dare you!" Thorpe screamed. He raised his hand and slapped Caster hard across the face. Caster fell to the metal floor. His lip split open. Bright red blood dripped down his chin. Thorpe towered over him, breathing heavily. The red, swirling orb in his left eye blazed with a terrifying, blinding light. The air in the room instantly grew so hot it felt like the inside of a volcano. "I tried to make you understand!" Thorpe roared, spit flying from his lips. "I wanted you to see the beauty of my design! We could have ruled the new world together, Caster! But you are just a weak, blind, pathetic old fool!"Thorpe turned his back on Caster. He marched furiously toward the main control panel on the wall. "You want to protect their free will?" Thorpe shrieked, his hands flying across the glowing red buttons. "You want them to have the freedom to suffer? Fine! Then you will be the fuel that finishes my machine! I will use your golden truth to open the gate right now!""No!" Sikoa yel
Chapter 741
"The whole forest is burning!" Thorpe roared. He walked back to the center of the room. He stood directly beneath the giant, humming brass rings of the Core Array."That is why I built this machine," Thorpe said, spreading his arms wide. He looked up at the spinning metal. "I do not want to win a stupid war against Glassview. I do not want to sit on a throne and collect taxes. Kings die, Caster. Empires always fall. I want to end the game permanently."Thorpe lowered his arms. He stared directly into Caster’s tired gray eyes. "I am going to become the new Ash Warden," Thorpe confessed.The words hit the silent room like a heavy stone.Sikoa gasped on the table. She pulled weakly against her iron chains. "You are insane," she whispered."I am the only one who sees clearly!" Thorpe snapped at her. He turned his attention back to Caster."The green light is shooting into the sky from the center of Glassview,"
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