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Chapter 454
Clunk.The bronze gears stopped turning. The lift came to a gentle halt."We are here," Lysane said.She pushed the heavy glass door open.They stepped out of the lift and onto a wide, flat platform made of dark blue stone.Caster looked around in awe.The Sky Observatory was completely different from anything in the capital. There were no tall white walls. There was no gold trim. There were no bright blue glowing runes painted on the floors to keep monsters away.The Observatory was wide open to the sky. It had no roof. It was just a massive, circular platform built on the very tip of the highest mountain peak.In the center of the platform was a giant telescope. It was made of gleaming brass and polished silver. It was as large as a house, pointing silently up at the endless stars.Around the edge of the platform, carved deep into the dark blue stone, were perfect circles and lines.Caster walked over and knelt to look at the carvings."No magical runes," Caster observed. He traced
Chapter 453
The path up the mountain was steep, wet, and completely covered in sharp rocks.Caster Spellbound and Archmage Lysane climbed higher and higher. They left the burning, screaming capital city behind them. Below, the dark gray ash swallowed the beautiful white streets. The giant Sage Tower groaned and cracked, wrapped tightly in a massive, spinning helix of dead magic.Caster was breathing very hard. His old lungs burned in the freezing air. His hands were cut and bleeding from grabbing the sharp mountain rocks."We are almost there," Lysane yelled over her shoulder. She was climbing a few feet ahead of him. Her heavy leather bag full of brass instruments clanked loudly against her back. She held the heavy Foundations book tightly under her arm."The ash... is getting thinner," Caster gasped. He stopped for a second and leaned against a large boulder.He was right. Down in the city, the ash was so thick you could not see your own hands. But up here, high on the mountain cliff, the gray
Chapter 452
Lysanne was carrying a heavy leather bag slung over her shoulder. And clutched tightly against her chest was the thick, heavy book they had saved from the pale fire: Foundations of Sustained Catastrophe.Sticking out of the leather bag were strange, heavy objects made of shiny brass. There were metal rings, glass lenses, and complex gears."What is all that?" Caster asked, pointing to the brass instruments."I did not just hide the children," Lysane said, her voice hard and full of purpose. "I broke into the old storeroom near the cellars. I salvaged these."She pulled a heavy, circular brass object out of the bag. It was covered in tiny, detailed carvings of constellations. It was an ancient astrolabe."Star-maps," Lysane said. She pulled out a roll of thick, dark blue parchment covered in silver dots. "And navigation instruments from the time before the Tower was built."Caster frowned in confusion. "Lysane, the world is ending. The leylines are completely corrupted. We cannot use e
Chapter 451
Caster rolled up the sleeve of his dirty gray robe. He looked at his arm. Underneath his pale, wrinkled skin, his veins were glowing. They were not blue. They were thick, dark black lines. They looked like the roots of an evil tree growing inside his body.The Ash Warden was pushing its power through the silver soul-tether. The god was claiming its vessel.Caster felt a new mind pressing against his own. It was a massive, cold, absolute intelligence. It was not a voice speaking in his ear; it was a thought forming inside his own brain.Let go, the thought said. It was calm. It was not a command; it was a simple truth. The flesh is weak. The memory is heavy. I will carry the weight for you. We are one."No," Caster growled. He dug his fingernails into his own arm, drawing blood. The sharp physical pain helped clear his mind. "I am Caster Spellbound. I am a man. I am not a suit of armor for you to wear."Look around you, the cold intelligence replied in his mind. They are suffering. The
Chapter 450
Caster stared at the empty clothes lying on the road. A small red shoe. A brown coat. A white baker’s apron.The Tower’s own defenses were actively eating the citizens. The machine was doing exactly what it was built to do. It was balancing the scale, and it was using human lives as weight."This is my fault," Caster whispered. His chest heaved with heavy, painful sobs. "I built the tether. I started this."Suddenly, a massive, deafening sound rolled across the entire city.BONG.The sound was so deep and heavy that it shook the teeth in Caster’s mouth. It rattled the glass in the windows of the houses.BONG.Caster looked up toward the center of the city.High above the spinning, massive helix of ash that wrapped around the Sage Tower, a giant bell was ringing.But it was not a real bell. There was no giant bell in the Tower.It was a magical alarm. It was an ancient spell built into the very bones of the earth. No one alive today had ever heard this sound. Archmage Vane had never he
Chapter 449
The floor of the Grand Foyer broke with the sound of a dying mountain.Caster Spellbound felt the smooth white marble vanish from beneath his boots. Gravity grabbed him violently. He fell forward into the massive, dark crack. The freezing air rushed past his ears. Pieces of broken stone, glass, and gold metal fell with him.He heard the terrified screams of the children above him. He heard Archmage Lysane shout his name. But he could not reach her. The distance was already too great."I will not die here!" Caster roared into the dark.He closed his eyes. He stopped trying to grab the falling rocks. He reached deep into his own chest. He grabbed the heavy, thick power of the Ash Warden that lived inside his soul.He threw both of his hands down toward the bottom of the black pit.A massive blast of dark gray ash shot out of his palms. It did not act like a fire. It acted like a giant, soft pillow. The dark magic hit the ground far below and pushed back up against him. It slowed his fal
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