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Chapter 611
The chaotic magic fought him. It sliced his blue robes to shreds. It cut his arms. But Caster pushed through the pain. He reached Elias. Caster threw his arms around Elias’s floating body. He grabbed his friend tightly in a desperate hug. "I've got you," Caster shouted in Elias’s ear. Then, Caster became the grounding rod. He pushed his own clean, pure blue magic directly into the chaotic red storm. He forced his own stable soul to connect with Elias’s wild, broken spell. The reaction was immediate and absolutely devastating. KRA-KOOM! The wild red magic found a path. It rushed out of the glass flask, flowed through Elias’s blood, and slammed directly into Caster’s body. Caster screamed. The pain was infinitely worse than burning. The wild magic felt like a thousand sharp needles piercing his very soul. It tried to mutate his heart. It tried to tear his mind in half. But Caster held on. He gritted his teeth. He planted his bare feet firmly on the floating floorboards. He for
Chapter 610
Elias stepped around the table. He stood very close to Caster. He lowered his voice so the other students in the large room could not hear him. "I have been reading the forbidden texts in the lower basement," Elias whispered. His eyes danced with a dangerous, forbidden thrill. Caster frowned. "The Pre-Blackthorn texts? Elias, those books are sealed for a reason. The magic in them is unstable. It requires blood. It requires taking life to make power.""It requires sacrifice to achieve greatness!" Elias corrected him. "Listen to me, Caster. I have figured out a way to create a perpetual energy loop. An engine that never stops. We would not have to pull from the leylines anymore. We could generate our own infinite power."Caster felt a cold chill run down his spine. "Infinite power violates the law of consequence. Where does the energy come from, Elias?"Elias smiled a dark, secret smile. "It comes from inside us. The human soul is a battery, Caster. If you mix a drop of your own livin
Chapter 609
CLANG. The heavy iron hammer hit the red-hot steel. Bright orange sparks flew into the dark air. CLANG. Caster Spellbound stood in the corner of his concrete laboratory inside Fort Ironcliff. The room was terribly hot. He had asked General Verne’s soldiers to bring him a small forge, an anvil, and tools. They gave him what he wanted because they thought he was building weapons for them. CLANG. Caster raised the hammer again. His old, thin arms shook. Sweat poured down his wrinkled face. His gray shirt was completely soaked. His broken ribs screamed with pain every time he swung his arms, but he did not stop. He forced himself to keep working. He was not building a gun. He was building a trap for Elias Thorpe. CLANG. The sound was loud and steady. It was a perfect, rhythmic beat. As Caster brought the hammer down again and again, the sound began to change inside his tired mind. The loud, heavy CLANG of the dirty military forge slowly turned into a sharp, clean TINK. Tink. Tin
Chapter 608
The giant face smiled one last, terrifying time. "I will see you soon, old friend," Thorpe whispered. The whisper was incredibly quiet, but it echoed perfectly in Caster’s ears. Then, the red light exploded. BZZZZ-CRASH! The broadcast ended violently. The massive red communication crystals hanging from the factory ceiling could not handle the hostile magic anymore. The crystals shattered. Thousands of sharp pieces of broken red glass rained down onto the factory floor. The workers screamed and covered their heads. The dark, swirling smoke vanished into thin air. The War Foundry plunged into sudden, dark, heavy silence. The only sound was the crackle of the hot furnaces and the quiet sobbing of a terrified worker. General Verne stood on the balcony. Her face was completely red with fury. Her chest heaved. She turned to Chief Artificer Vane. "Why did you not stop the signal?!" Verne screamed at the top of her lungs. She raised her silver sword and slammed the flat side of the b
Chapter 607
Caster stared at the giant face. His breath caught in his throat. It was Elias Thorpe. A hundred years ago, when Caster and Elias were young students together, Elias had been handsome. He had a quick smile and bright, clever green eyes. The man in the red hologram was not handsome anymore. Elias Thorpe looked incredibly old, but he did not look weak. He looked like a tree that had survived a hundred forest fires. His face was terribly scarred. Thick, ugly, melted burn scars covered the entire left side of his face and neck. The scars were the heavy price of playing with dangerous, unstable blood magic. His skin looked like melted wax. He wore a heavy, high-collared coat made of deep crimson red leather. Fastened to his chest was a shiny brass badge showing a jagged, interlocking double helix. The exact same maker’s mark Caster had seen on the enemy weapons. But the most terrifying part of Elias Thorpe was his eyes. His right eye was still a sharp, brilliant green. But his left
Chapter 606
The War Foundry was a place of endless, deafening noise. CLANG. CLANG. CLANG. Giant steel hammers smashed down onto heavy anvils. Thick black smoke poured out of the massive iron furnaces. The air was incredibly hot. It smelled like burning sulfur, sweat, and melting copper. Thousands of tired, dirty workers moved like tiny ants across the massive factory floor. They were building the new armor. They were building the Resonant Shards. Caster Spellbound stood on a high metal balcony, looking down at the factory. He wore his dark gray military coat. The silver moons on his shoulder shone in the bright light of the fires. He leaned heavily on his broken wooden walking stick. He watched the workers. They were taking raw, clear quartz crystals and placing them into heavy iron pressing machines. They were following Caster’s exact instructions. They bathed the stones in boiling silver water. They locked them into small, round brass housings. Every minute, a hundred new, glowing blue
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