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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
Chapter 605
General Elandra Verne walked over to Caster. She did not look at him like a prisoner anymore. She looked at him like he was the most valuable treasure in her entire fortress. She raised her hand and clapped him hard on the shoulder."You are a god among men, Caster Spellbound," General Verne declared loudly, her voice full of fierce joy. "This is it! This is the equalizer!"She turned to her commanders."I want these Shards mass-produced immediately!" Verne roared, her eyes shining with ambition. "I want every single soldier in my elite strike teams wearing one by the end of the week! Stop the bomb factories! Put all your engineers on the crystals! We are going to march right through Elias Thorpe’s fire, and we are going to burn the Crimson Alliance to the ground!"The commanders saluted sharply, running out of the room to pass the urgent orders.Verne looked back at Caster. She smiled her cold, calculating smile. "You have won us the war, Alchemist," Verne said softly. "You have kept
Chapter 604
Chief Artificer Vane laughed his harsh, metallic laugh."He built a pretty, shiny rock," Vane mocked, pointing his metal claw at the glass. "He used clear quartz. There is no heavy magic in that stone. When the red energy hits him, Sergeant Rane is going to melt into a puddle of bloody soup. You failed, old man."Caster ignored Vane completely. He looked calmly at General Verne. "It is a Resonant Shard," Caster explained quietly. "It does not use the dark ash. It does not use heavy, dead magic. It uses the soldier's own life."Verne frowned. "His life?""The crystal is synced to Sergeant Rane’s bio-rhythms," Caster said, pointing at the soldier behind the glass. "It feels his heartbeat. It feels his electrical pulse. When Elias Thorpe’s chaotic red magic attacks, a stiff wall will shatter. But this crystal will read the incoming attack, match its frequency in a fraction of a second, and bend around it."Caster looked into the General’s icy blue eyes. "It runs clean, General," Caster p
Chapter 603
Caster opened his eyes. A very faint, almost invisible golden light glowed in his gray eyes. He placed both of his bare hands gently on the clear quartz crystal sitting in the silver water.He pushed his own heartbeat into his fingers. Thump. Thump. He pushed the tiny, golden hum into the stone. Vzzzzzz. He forced the clear crystal to absorb the rhythm of human life.The clear quartz began to change. It did not turn dark purple. It did not turn angry red. It began to glow with a soft, warm, beautiful pale blue light. It looked like moonlight shining through clean water.The crystal began to hum all by itself. It was beating. The stone was beating exactly like a human heart."Yes," Caster smiled. Sweat poured down his face. His whole body shook with total exhaustion, but he did not stop. He grabbed a heavy iron hammer. He gently tapped the large, beating crystal.CRACK.The large crystal split perfectly into six smaller, diamond-shaped pieces.Every single small piece continued to glow
Chapter 602
General Verne stared at him. She hated when he was right, but she knew he was the smartest man in the room. She slowly lowered her hands."Then what do we do?" Verne asked. Her voice was cold, but it was desperate. "If we do not protect them, the Crimson Alliance will slaughter us. Thorpe’s weapons are too strong. Our normal blue magical wards melt like butter against his red energy."Caster looked down at his empty hands. He thought about Elias Thorpe. He remembered his old friend. He remembered how Thorpe’s mind worked. Thorpe loved chaos. Thorpe loved pushing magic until it screamed and broke. The red energy weapons were pure, violent noise. They were a chaotic, screaming mess of blood and ash."If you fight a screaming man by screaming louder, you just break your own throat," Caster whispered to himself."What?" Verne asked, frowning.Caster looked up at her. His gray eyes were sharp and brilliant again. The old genius was back at work."You cannot fight Thorpe’s chaos with more
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