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Caster turned his head to look at her. His face was a mask of pain and terrible, dark power. His eyes were half-black. The humanity in his face was slipping away, buried under the heavy, cold weight of the Ash Plane."I cannot stop," Caster growled. His voice was changing too. It sounded deeper, layered with the same grinding sound that the golems made. "If I stop... they break the shield. They take the children.""If you keep casting those runes, the Warden wins!" Lysane cried. She slammed her hands against the inside of the white dome. She wanted to pull him inside, but she knew the golems would follow. "You are pulling the Ash Plane directly into your own heart! It is eating your humanity!"Caster looked at his trembling, black hands. He could feel the cold, absolute intelligence of the Warden pressing against the inside of his skull.Let go, the voice whispered. You are tired. You are broken. I am the law. We are one.Caster closed his hands into tight fists. He looked back at the
Chapter 471
"They are hunting me," Caster said softly. "The Warden wants its vessel. If I hide inside the shield with you, they will smash the shield until it breaks. They will kill the children just to get to me.""So what do we do?" Lysane asked, her hands shaking on the silver lines."I stay outside," Caster said. His voice was hard and cold. "I fight them here. At the gate.""No!" Lysane yelled. "You are just one man! There are fifty of them!"Caster did not argue. He turned his back to the glowing white dome. He stood on the narrow edge of the mountain cliff. He faced the army of giant ash golems alone.The golems stopped hitting the shield. They all turned their massive, faceless heads. One hundred glowing purple eyes locked onto Caster.They recognized him. They felt the silver tether inside his chest. They felt the dark magic flowing in his blood.The golems did not attack wildly. They moved with terrifying, cold intelligence. They spread out, forming a wide half-circle around Caster, tra
Chapter 470
The wind on the top of the mountain was like a freezing knife. It cut through clothes and bit into bare skin.Archmage Lysane pushed the heavy wooden doors of the Sky Observatory open. "Get inside! Quickly! Stay away from the edge!" she yelled.Little Finn and Elara ran past her, shivering violently. Behind them ran the older junior mages, holding onto each other to stay standing in the terrible wind. There were twenty children in total. They were the only survivors from the Great Hall.They ran onto the flat, dark blue stone platform of the Observatory. They huddled together underneath the giant, broken brass telescope. They looked up at the sky.The sky was a nightmare. The stars had shifted into the shape of a giant, dark void surrounded by a burning crown. The universe itself was watching them.Lysane dropped her heavy leather bag on the stone floor. She looked back toward the edge of the cliff.She had left Caster Spellbound at the broken stairs of the Tower. She had promised him
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"It is not an invasion," Lysane whispered to the empty mountain. "It is an eviction."The Warden was throwing them out of their own home.Lysane looked back down at the Tower."Vane has no idea," she said. "The safety nets are not just failing. The safety nets are actively turning against them."Down in the lower Rings of the city, the truth of Lysane’s realization was happening in real-time.In the Second Ring, there were massive, hidden underground bunkers. They were called the Emergency Sanctums.These sanctums were built for the rich and powerful. They were built for the wealthy merchants, the high politicians, and the cowardly guard captains who had enough money to buy a secret key.The sanctums were supposed to be the safest places in the world. They were made of solid steel and covered in ten layers of strong blue defense wards. The doors were five feet thick. No monster, no beast, and no dark magic could break in.Lord Morrel, a very fat, very rich merchant, sat inside his pri
Chapter 468
The bright blue light spreading across the ceiling suddenly stopped. It did not fade away. It hit an invisible wall.In the center of the glowing blue crystal, right in the very middle of the pure light, a tiny black spot appeared.It looked like a drop of black ink falling into a glass of clean water.Vane frowned. He pushed his hands closer to the crystal, trying to force more blue magic into it. "Keep pushing!" he yelled to the others.But the black spot grew.It did not just grow; it spun. It spun exactly like the giant dark helix of ash wrapping around the Tower outside."Vane," Liora whispered, her voice shaking with pure terror. "The command phrases... they are changing."Vane looked down at the stone floor around the crystal.When they cast the spell, bright blue magical words had appeared on the floor. They were the Authority Sigils. They were the ancient words that proved the Archmages owned the Tower.But the bright blue letters were twisting.They were turning upside down.
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The Golden Room at the very top of the Sage Tower was completely ruined.Just one day ago, this room was the most beautiful place in the world. It had clean white marble floors. It had a giant, floating table made of pure gold. It had bright, warm blue lights that made the Archmages look like gods.Now, the room looked like a dark, dirty cave.The floating golden table had crashed to the floor. The heavy glass windows were shattered. The freezing wind howled through the broken glass, carrying thick handfuls of dark gray ash into the room.Archmage Vane stood in the center of the mess. His perfect white robes were covered in dirt and soot. His silver hair was wild and messy. He looked around at the other Archmages of the High Council.Only six of them were left. The others had run away, or they had been swallowed by the dark ash when the floor broke.Archmage Liora sat on the cold floor, hugging her knees. She was crying. Her tears left clean tracks in the gray dust on her face."It is
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