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Chapter 673
The courtyard was completely destroyed. The high brick walls had collapsed. The beautiful stone fountain was smashed. The sky above rained heavy, gray water. But in the very center of the ruined courtyard, trapped under a large, fallen piece of a wooden roof, Caster saw a miracle. It was a single, living flower. It was a Gilded Rose. The flower that gave the shop its name. It had petals the color of bright, shiny gold. It was a very rare, magical plant that Caster had grown himself over a hundred years ago. The heavy piece of wood had fallen directly over the rose, acting like a tiny shield. The red magic had not touched it. The fire had missed it. The beautiful golden rose was blooming perfectly in the cold rain. Caster walked over to the flower. He dropped to his knees in the mud. He set his wooden walking stick aside. He began to dig. He dug with his bare, bleeding, scarred hands. He dug into the wet, cold earth right next to the roots of the golden rose. He dug until his f
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The creature began to melt. Thick, black smoke poured from its body. It thrashed wildly on the floor, tearing at its own flesh. Caster did not wait. He picked up his heavy, broken wooden walking stick. He walked right up to the melting, screaming creature. He raised the stick high above his head. He brought it down with all his remaining strength, smashing it directly into the center of the monster’s chest, pinning it to the stone floor. The silver-salt burned deeper. The red glow inside the monster flickered, died, and vanished. The creature stopped thrashing. It collapsed into a wet, steaming puddle of harmless gray mud. Caster leaned heavily on his stick, gasping for air. His arms shook. His broken ribs burned. He had killed the mutation. But he knew more red magic was seeping through the walls. He turned away from the dead monster. He walked to the dark corner of the basement. Lying perfectly still on the cold stone floor was Dorrin. The old butler looked incredibly small.
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But Caster touched the simple silver ring on his right index finger. The master kill-switch. If he used the golden magic to activate the ring, every single one of those blue shields would instantly turn off. The armor would freeze into solid iron. Those cheering boys would become helpless statues. And the next red beam would burn them all alive. "I gave them a shield," Caster whispered sadly to himself. "And now I hold the knife to cut it away."He could not think about the war right now. He had a promise to keep. Caster left the Market Square. He ran down the long, winding Avenue of Mages. He finally reached the Street of Alchemists. The street was completely devastated. The beautiful, neat brick houses were smashed. Deep, jagged craters ripped the cobblestone road apart. Thick, twisted pillars of red bone stuck out of the ground like the ribs of a giant, dead beast. The air was incredibly hot. The buildings burned with unnatural red fire that did not produce smoke, only a sick,
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Caster Spellbound stood in the freezing rain. He watched the young boy, Leo, run south. The boy’s blue robes disappeared into the dark shadows of the broken city wall. Leo was safe. He was heading for the wild lands. Caster turned around. He looked toward the west. The massive, walking mountain of red steel and black iron stood outside the capital city. The Crimson Engine. It was firing its terrible, heavy cannons. Thick beams of screaming, bloody red magic slammed into the white stone walls of Glassview. The walls bubbled, mutated into sharp bone, and crumbled to dust. Caster gripped his broken wooden walking stick. He needed to get inside that machine. He needed to find the catalyst. He had to stop his old friend, Elias Thorpe, from burning a million innocent souls. He took one step forward. Then, he stopped. His gray eyes widened. His heart skipped a beat. He looked down at his dirty, wet boots. He remembered the dark, rushing water in the Grand Aqueduct. He remembered the ter
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Caster and Leo stared in pure, absolute awe and horror. Standing just outside the city walls, towering over the massive stone defenses, was a nightmare made of iron and fire. It was the Crimson Engine. The walking mountain had arrived. It was bigger than Caster could have ever imagined. It was a massive fortress resting on eight giant, hydraulic steel legs. Heavy black smoke poured from a dozen tall chimneys. The giant glass tanks on the sides of the machine glowed with blinding red light. Thousands of human souls were burning inside, screaming in eternal agony to power the beast. Dozens of heavy, twisted brass cannons were mounted on the front of the machine. The cannons were firing point-blank into the white city walls. The red energy beams hit the walls. The unbreakable white stone mutated instantly. It bubbled, turned to flesh and red bone, and then crumbled to dust. The Glassview army was trying to fight back. Thousands of soldiers stood on the walls, firing their blue mag
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The dark water was glowing with a faint, sick, bloody red light. The light was not coming from the blue crystals on the ceiling. It was coming from deep inside the water itself. It looked like someone had poured a million gallons of glowing red paint into the river. "Why is it red?" Leo asked, stepping closer to the edge. "Get away from the edge!" Caster roared. He lunged forward and grabbed the back of Leo’s blue robes. He yanked the boy violently backward, pulling him away from the rushing water. The exact second Caster pulled him back, the water exploded. A terrifying, high-pitched scream echoed through the brick tunnel. Something burst out of the red glowing water. It was not a fish. It was an abomination. It was a creature made of twisted, jagged red bone and boiling, bloody water. It had no eyes. It had a massive, gaping mouth filled with hundreds of sharp, needle-like teeth. It looked like a nightmare born from the deepest, sickest part of the ocean. The monster snapped
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