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Chapter 623
The cold rain poured down on the ruined cathedral. Lightning flashed in the dark sky. Caster Spellbound stood perfectly still in the mud. He held his broken wooden walking stick. Next to him, Sikoa the rogue held her two sharp steel daggers. They were trapped. Five soldiers from the Crimson Alliance stood in the broken doorway of the church. The soldiers wore long, blood-red coats. They held heavy, twisted brass rifles. The glass tanks on their rifles bubbled with sick, screaming red energy. The lead soldier pointed his rifle directly at Caster’s chest. "Do not move, Glassview rats," the Crimson soldier growled. "You are coming with us to the furnaces."Caster looked at the glowing red weapon. He knew what that red energy was. It was the stolen souls of innocent people, burned to make magic. The thought made Caster’s stomach twist with absolute sickness. The soldier’s finger pulled the heavy iron trigger. SKREEEE! The rifle screamed. A beam of thick, dark red light shot out of
Chapter 622
"Here is the plan," Caster said. His mind was racing, building the most dangerous, impossible strategy he had ever created. Sikoa stepped closer to listen. Lysane leaned close to her mirror in the cave. "I have the silver kill-switch ring," Caster said, holding up his right hand so they could see the plain metal band on his finger. "I can freeze the entire Glassview army with a single thought. I will trigger the collapse of General Verne’s forces. I promise you that.""But if you freeze them, Thorpe will harvest them," Sikoa reminded him. "Yes," Caster nodded. "Which means I cannot trigger the ring until Elias Thorpe’s machine is completely broken."Caster pointed to the glowing red blueprints on the floor. "We are not going to stay in Glassview and watch the battle," Caster declared. "General Verne is marching her army to the western valley to block the Crimson Engine. The two armies are going to crash into each other tomorrow morning.""While they are busy fighting each other in
Chapter 621
"I found him," Sikoa said softly, holding the mirror up so Lysane could see Caster sitting against the wall. "Caster!" Lysane smiled. Her dark eyes lit up with relief. "You are alive. I was so worried when the red broadcast hijacked the crystals.""I am alive, Lysane," Caster said, nodding slowly. "I see the children are safe.""They are sleeping," Lysane said, looking back at the kids. "The cave is deep in the northern mountains. The Twin Moons soldiers have not come this far. We are hidden."Lysane looked back at the mirror. She noticed the dark, terrible look on Sikoa’s face. She noticed the tears on Caster’s dirty cheeks. "What is wrong?" Lysane asked, her smile fading instantly. "Where is Solon? He was supposed to meet you at the cathedral."Sikoa slowly tilted the mirror down. She showed the dead body of Solon lying in the mud. Lysane gasped loudly. She covered her mouth with her bandaged hands. "Oh, Light save us," Lysane cried softly. "Solon... no.""The Crimson Alliance ki
Chapter 620
The cold rain poured through the broken roof of the old cathedral. It fell like sharp, freezing needles in the dark. Caster Spellbound stumbled away from the dead body of his friend. He walked toward the heavy, ruined stone wall of the church. His breathing was fast and shallow. Hah. Hah. Hah. His hands shook violently. He dropped his wooden walking stick. The stick hit the muddy floor with a soft splash. Caster leaned his shoulder against the wet stone wall. He closed his eyes, but he could not stop seeing the glowing red blueprints. He could not stop seeing the tiny, screaming human figures drawn inside the glass cages. A terrible, heavy sickness twisted in his stomach. It was not a sickness from a magic spell. It was not poison from the dark ash. It was the sickness of absolute, pure horror. Caster bent over. He grabbed his stomach. He fell to his knees in the cold mud. He opened his mouth and vomited. He was violently ill. He coughed and choked, spitting bitter bile onto the
Chapter 619
"If Thorpe reaches Glassview..." Solon gasped, his eyes rolling back slightly. "If his army breaks our walls... he will not just conquer the city. He will harvest it. He will put a million innocent people into those glass tubes to fuel his empire."Solon looked at Caster one last time. "You have to stop him, Caster," Solon whispered. "You are the only one who understands the math. You have to break his engine."Solon’s hand suddenly went limp. His grip on Caster’s wrist loosened. The quiet, brave archivist let out one final, soft sigh. His pale eyes stared up at the dark, raining sky, but they did not see the storm anymore. Solon was dead. Caster knelt in the mud for a long time. The freezing rain poured down on his back. It washed the blood off his hands. He gently reached out and closed Solon’s eyes. "I am sorry, my friend," Caster whispered to the quiet corpse. "You were braver than all the generals in this city."Caster slowly stood up. He picked up the glowing red blueprints f
Chapter 618
"You are Caster Spellbound," Solon smiled weakly. "You are the smartest man in the world. You do not need a key to open a door. You just take the door off its hinges."Caster looked at the glowing green dials on the brass tube. He was an empty old man. He had no blue magic. But deep inside his chest, the tiny, warm golden seed was waiting. Vzzzzzz. The strange, new magic born from the Ash Warden and Caster’s own willpower hummed quietly. Caster closed his eyes. He reached inward. He carefully, gently pulled a tiny thread of the golden light. He pushed it down his right arm, into his fingertips. He opened his eyes. A faint, almost invisible golden light glowed in his gray eyes. He placed his fingers on the complex, glowing green locks of the brass cylinder. He did not try to guess the password. He did not try to break the metal. He used the golden magic to simply rewrite the lock. He told the brass cylinder that the door was already open. Click. Click. Click. The green lights
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