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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
Chapter 469
"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.
Chapter 467
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
Chapter 466
"It needs its vessel," Caster said. "It knows I am coming down. It knows I am heading for the Mana Core. If the Tower falls right now, I die under a million tons of white marble. The vessel gets crushed before the god can wear it."Lysane’s eyes widened. "The golems...""The golems are not hunters," Caster finished. "They are prison guards. They are sealing the exits so no one can escape. They are herding the survivors into the center of the Rings, keeping them trapped like cattle in a pen. And they are protecting the structural nodes to make sure the building stays standing just long enough for me to reach the basement."Lysane felt sick to her stomach. The intelligence of the dark god was terrifying. It was not a wild storm. It was a cold, calculating machine. It was preserving the stage for its own birth."It is cleaning the house for you," Lysane whispered."Yes," Caster said. He stood up. "Which means they will not kill me. They might even let me pass. We have to keep moving."Ca
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
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