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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
Chapter 338
The first thing that breaks is the light. The sigil in Lyra’s chest fractures with a sharp crack, like glass under pressure. White lines crawl across it. The glow dims, flickers, then collapses inward. The floating towers around Glassview shudder as if something underneath them has gone hollow.Caster does not move. Lyra’s body jerks once. Her back arches. A sound forces its way out of her throat—not a scream, not a word. Just breath tearing free. Then she goes still.The spectral colossus behind her freezes mid-motion. Its massive arms lock in place. Mana drains from its form in visible streams, bleeding into the air like smoke pulled into a vacuum.Caster lowers his staff by a fraction. Ash drifts down from above. The sky, once torn open by spellfire and constructs, begins to seal itself. Clouds crawl back into place. Broken towers hang in silence, suspended by fading enchantments.Lyra’s eyes are open. They do not focus. Her lips part slightly. No sound follows.Caster steps forw
Chapter 337
The city lifted. It did not rise as one clean piece. It broke as it rose. Towers pulled upward in jagged parts, dragged by twisted gravity and torn mana lines. Stone groaned like it was alive. Glass screamed as it shattered. Streets bent and curled upward, cracking and splitting, like ribs tearing free from a broken chest.Glassview stopped being a city. It became a battlefield in the sky. Caster hovered above the heart of the city. Light wrapped around his body in calm, steady bands. They circled him like quiet stars. His breathing was slow and controlled. His heart beat hard, but it beat evenly. He was afraid, but he was focused.Below him, people ran. They fled across bridges that tilted and broke beneath their feet. Some slipped and fell into the open air. Some vanished into white mist when the ground beneath them simply gave up and disappeared.Caster saw them all. Across the broken skyline, Lyra rose higher and higher. She no longer looked fully human.Silver-black veins sprea
Chapter 336
The first scream came from the east quarter of Glassview. It cut through the night like torn cloth.Caster felt it before he heard it. The mana anchor inside his chest pulsed hard, then cold. He stopped walking. Rain slid down his face. The street around him froze. Stone cracked.A lamp post bent, then collapsed, rust spreading across it in seconds like mold. People ran.Their footsteps echoed wrong, stretched and warped, as if the ground could not decide where sound belonged.Sikoa reached his side. Her hand hovered near her blade. “It has started,” she said.Caster looked up. The sky was no longer gray. It was split. Silver clouds rolled across black space. Light bled from the gaps, thin and sharp, like cuts in skin. Gravity shifted. Loose paper lifted, then slammed back down.Far across the city, a tower darkened. Its mana beacon flickered, then died. Caster closed his eyes once. “Lyra,” he said.The ground shook again. Buildings aged in seconds. Walls peeled. Iron rails bent and
Chapter 335
The rain did not stop after Spectral Lime was reclaimed. It grew heavier, thicker, like the city itself was trying to wash something away. Water ran along the stone paths and pooled in broken cracks. The sky stayed low and gray.Inside the inner wing of Spectral Lime, the lights were dim. Power had returned, but no one raised it higher. The halls felt like a place of waiting.Caster walked fast through the corridor. His boots left wet marks on the floor. His cloak was gone. His hands shook once, then steadied.Sikoa followed close behind him. She did not speak. Her jaw was tight. Her eyes stayed forward.At the end of the hall, two scholars stood aside and lowered their heads. One of them wiped his eyes.Caster pushed open the door. The room was small. It had once been a study. Shelves lined the walls, now empty. A desk sat in the corner, its surface cracked by old mana burns. The only light came from a single crystal lamp.Solon lay on a narrow bed at the center of the room. He look
Chapter 334
Caster did not go underground by accident. He waited until the streets of Glassview emptied and the patrol lights dimmed. He changed his cloak twice and wiped his mana trail clean. When he moved, he kept close to walls and avoided open crossings. He passed three guard checkpoints without being seen.The entrance to the Veil Brokers was not marked. It never was. It lay beneath a broken fountain in the old merchant quarter, where water had not flowed for years.The stone basin was cracked and filled with dust. At the center, a single coin sat upright on its edge.Caster stopped. He nudged the coin with his boot. The ground opened. Stone slid aside without sound, revealing a narrow stair spiraling down into darkness. Cold air rose from below, smelling of metal, oil, and old magic.Caster stepped in. The stair sealed behind him. The light came slowly. Dim crystals embedded in the walls glowed a dull violet as he descended. The walls were smooth, carved long ago, and etched with ward lin
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