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Chapter 344
Caster moved through the crowded market district of Glassview before dawn. The streets smelled of damp stone and frying grain, and low-hanging lanterns flickered in the mist rising from the canals. Most stalls were closed, shutters down or patched with cloth, but some traders were already setting out rare items, mana conduits, broken foci, old research instruments.He walked lightly, coat collar raised, illusion sigil active. His steps were quiet on cobblestone and damp metal grates. He didn’t speak. He didn’t look up. Every few paces, he paused to scan shadows for movement, listening for whispers, the slightest unusual sound.A faint pulse drew his attention, subtle but distinct. Skell energy, muted, deliberately concealed, but alive. The signature matched the fragment he had taken from the auction.He ducked into a narrow side alley and slipped between two half-open shutters. Behind them, the faint glow of mana lanterns illuminated rows of shelves filled with miscellaneous relics,
Chapter 343
Caster moved through the chamber like a shadow. The underground auction hall stretched wider than he expected. Rusted transit rails crisscrossed the floor. Lanterns hung low, throwing jagged pools of light and long black shadows. The air smelled of dust, burnt metal, and stale mana.People crowded around raised platforms. Cases of artifacts glimmered behind glass, each secured with multiple wards. The chatter was low, urgent, masked faces whispered numbers, tapped glowing slates, gestured with concealed hands.Caster’s eyes moved over the items. Some were ordinary relics. Others were familiar. He froze for a fraction of a second.A small, fractured sphere pulsed faintly behind a reinforced case. The aura around it was raw Skell energy, resonant, unstable. He recognized the pattern immediately. He had used that very sphere in the last stabilization attempt during the Rift Incident.Nearby, a thin steel rod, wrapped in protective sigils, hummed faintly. He had wielded it to bind rifts
Chapter 342
Caster entered Glassview through a service tunnel beneath the eastern scaffolds.The tunnel mouth hid behind layered ward plates and caution sigils. Construction crews passed above it without looking down. Their boots shook dust loose from the ceiling. It fell in thin sheets and settled on his shoulders.Caster walked straight through the inactive ward ring. The illusion sigil bent the light around him just enough to blur his face. His coat shifted to match the muted gray worn by junior academics and courier aides. A thin badge appeared at his collar, etched with a low-tier research crest. No one stopped him.The tunnel opened into a sublevel corridor beneath the old academic district. Glassview’s lower circles were still intact.The halls were narrow and reinforced with layered stone. Mana lines ran along the walls in exposed channels, patched in places where the Rift Event had torn through. Some glowed steady. Others flickered.Caster slowed his steps. Voices carried from ahead. “U
Chapter 341: The Return
Caster arrived without light or sound. One moment, the outskirts of Rebillion City stood quiet beneath a low gray sky. The next, the air folded inward. Dust lifted off cracked pavement. Loose scrap rattled across the road. Then a body dropped into the middle of it.Caster hit the ground on one knee. Stone fractured beneath him in a tight ring. A pulse of mana rolled outward like a pressure wave. Windows along the abandoned warehouse block shuddered. A streetlamp bent, then snapped at its base. The sky above twisted.Clouds spun in place, dragged into a tight spiral. Blue-white threads of mana lashed downward, striking the ground around him. Each impact burned shallow lines into concrete and asphalt.Caster did not move. His coat smoked along the seams. Faint black lines crawled across his exposed skin, like veins filled with ash. When he exhaled, the breath came out cold and sharp, fogging the air.Another pulse rippled outward. People screamed. At the far end of the street, a deliv
Chapter 340
The sky tears without warning. There is no sound. No flash. No heat. Just pressure.It feels like the world pulls in a sharp breath and forgets to let it out. Caster freezes mid-step.The piece of chalk in his fingers snaps with a dry crack. The broken halves fall from his hand. White dust spills across the circular array carved into the observation floor. The lines he was drawing lose their shape. Mana threads ripple and bend, their neat paths twisting as if disturbed by unseen fingers.Every lamp in the chamber flickers once. Then they steady. No one speaks. Caster does not move.Above him, the reinforced crystal dome darkens. The clouds beyond it slow, then slide sideways. They do not drift with the wind. They are dragged, as if something large is pulling them from behind the sky itself.Sikoa looks up from the control dais. Her hand tightens on the metal rail. “You felt that,” she says.Her voice is steady, but she does not look away from the dome. Caster slowly straightens. “Yes
Chapter 339
The first light to return to Glassview is not from the sky. It comes from the ground.Thin lines of mana flicker beneath broken streets and collapsed towers. They pulse once, weak and uneven, then settle into a slow rhythm. Cracked stone vibrates. Loose debris shifts as invisible forces pull the city back from collapse.Caster stands at the center of the main convergence platform. He does not look up.Both hands are pressed flat against the rune-etched floor. His staff lies beside him, untouched. His coat hangs torn and stiff with ash. The sigils burned into his skin glow faintly, then dim, then glow again in time with the city’s pulse.A tremor runs through the platform. Caster spreads his fingers.The tremor stops.Around him, shattered towers hang suspended in midair. Some are tilted at impossible angles. Others are frozen halfway through collapse. Dust and rubble hover like paused rain.A sharp crack echoes from the east quarter. Caster turns his head. One of the suspended towers
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