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Chapter 332
The night Glassview burned, the sky did not scream. It only glowed. A deep orange light rose behind the towers, slow at first, then faster, like a wound opening in the dark. Smoke curled upward in thick coils, carrying the sharp scent of burning ink, old paper, and mana residue. The Spectral Lime headquarters was on fire. Caster felt it before he saw it.A sudden pull struck his chest, as if a hook had sunk into his heart and yanked. His steps faltered. The ground beneath his boots trembled, faint but real.Sikoa grabbed his arm. “You feel it too.”“Yes,” Caster said. His voice was tight. “They have struck.”They stood at the edge of a narrow street, half-hidden by shadow. From here, they could see the great lime-green spire of the Spectral Lime Chamber, once proud, now cracked with lines of glowing red light. Flames poured from shattered windows high above. Mana flared wildly around the building, unstable and furious. “That is not an accident,” Sikoa said.“No,” Caster replied. “T
Chapter 331
Night covered Glassview like a thin sheet of black glass. The towers still glowed. The bridges still shone with mana light. From above, the city looked calm and proud. But under that calm, something had begun to move.High above the streets, inside the upper levels of the Twin Moons Consortium headquarters, Director Lyra stood alone in a ritual chamber.The room was round and tall. Its walls were made of smooth white stone etched with silver veins. The floor was a wide circle of polished black crystal. No windows broke the walls. Only floating lamps of pale light hovered near the ceiling, giving the space a cold glow.At the center of the room, a ritual array lay carved into the floor. The array was old. Older than Twin Moons. Older than Glassview itself. The lines were sharp and deep, filled with a dark substance that did not reflect light. It drank it.Lyra stood barefoot at the center. Her long coat lay folded on a nearby chair. Her sleeves were rolled up. Her pale arms were mark
Chapter 330
Glassview looked calm from above. The towers rose in clean lines of crystal and stone. The streets glowed with soft mana lamps.People moved through plazas and bridges, laughing, arguing, trading, studying, living. Nothing in the air warned them. Nothing in the sky burned. Nothing screamed.But beneath the city, the veins were rotting. Caster walked slowly through a narrow service corridor beneath the western district, his steps light but careful. The floor was old stone, cracked and patched many times. Pipes and mana conduits ran along the walls like ribs. Some hummed with clean blue light. Others flickered with a sickly gray pulse that made his skin prickle.Sikoa walked beside him, her boots silent, her hood drawn low. She carried a compact scanning focus in one hand, its surface etched with fine runes. Every few steps, she paused and pressed it to the wall or floor, listening not with ears, but with trained mana sense.Caster’s head still hurt from the curse, but the pain had sha
Chapter 329
Caster woke to silence that felt too loud. The room around him was dim and heavy with the smell of old paper, dried ink, and weak incense. Shelves climbed the walls from floor to ceiling, filled with books that looked older than Glassview itself. The light came from a single crystal lamp on a wooden desk. Its glow shook and pulsed as if it struggled to stay awake, just like him.Caster lay on a narrow bed, his body wrapped in thin sheets. Every breath felt slow and deep, as if the air had weight. His chest rose, then stalled, then fell again. His head throbbed with a dull pain that pressed from the inside, like fingers pushing against his thoughts. He tried to move his hand. It did not answer.A sharp fear rose in him. His mind screamed for his body, but his body did not listen. His fingers stayed still. His arm felt distant, like it belonged to someone else.“Easy,” a voice said softly.Caster’s eyes shifted with effort. He saw Solon sitting beside the bed, his back bent, his hair m
Chapter 328
The Great Forum of Glassview had not been this full in decades. Tier after tier of stone seats rose in wide circles, carved with runes that glowed faintly as mana flowed through them. Above, the ceiling was a dome of living crystal, reflecting every movement below like a calm sky holding its breath. The air hummed with restrained power, layered with wards meant to stop spells from tearing the city apart.Today, those wards strained. Scholars filled the seats. Students crowded the aisles. Media glyphs hovered like quiet birds, recording every sound and flicker of light. City Guards stood at every entrance, tense, hands resting near their weapons but unsure if weapons would matter here.This was not a battlefield of steel. This was a battlefield of minds. Caster Spellbound stood at the center platform.He wore simple robes, dark and unmarked. His posture was straight, but his face showed the cost of the past weeks. Faint crystalline veins traced his neck and hands, glowing softly ben
Chapter 327
The street fell silent. Caster Spellbound stood in the open light of Glassview, his cloak torn, his sleeve dark with drying blood. His aura rolled out from him in slow waves, not wild, not violent, but heavy with truth. Skell-blue threads mixed with warm gold light, rising like breath on cold air. The stones beneath his feet faintly glowed, reacting to his presence.People stared. Some dropped their bags. Some stepped back. Some leaned forward, eyes wide, as if afraid he would vanish if they blinked.“He is dead,” a woman whispered.“No,” another said. “That is him.”“Caster Spellbound.”The name moved through the crowd like a ripple through water. It spread from mouth to mouth, growing louder with each breath. City Guards froze in place, hands on weapons but unsure who the enemy was. Mana sentinels stood at a distance, their hollow faces turned toward him, but they did not move.They were waiting. Caster lifted his head and looked around. He saw fear. He saw wonder. He saw anger. H
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