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The thick, black beam of magic shooting out of the telescope gave one final, sick sputter, and then it died.The telescope went completely dark. The clear glass lenses inside shattered into a million pieces. The sound of breaking glass was sharp and terrible.TINK. TINK. CRASH.The pieces of broken glass fell out of the viewing ports and hit the blue stone floor.The venting had stopped. The pipe was closed."No," Lysane whispered. She backed away from the broken brass machine. "No, no, no."The silence on the mountain peak returned. The cold wind blew against their faces.But the silence did not last long.Down below, miles away in the dark, dying city, the pressure inside the Mana Core reached its absolute limit. The dark ash had nowhere to go. The bomb was fully loaded.DOOOOOOOOOOM.It was not a sound you could hear with your ears. It was a sound you felt in your soul.It was a massive, violent shockwave.It started at the very bottom of the Sage Tower. It rippled outward. It tore
Chapter 462
Lysane looked at him. Her dark eyes were full of a strange, deep sadness. "But what about tomorrow, Caster?" she asked. "The stars... you saw them. The universe is consequence. Even if the people run into the mountains... the Warden will just follow them. How do you fight the sky?""I don't know," Caster admitted. He looked at his own dirty hands. "I spent my whole life studying the deep earth. I never looked up. I was a fool.""We were all fools," Lysane said. She wrapped her arms around her knees, trying to stay warm in the freezing mountain air. "Archmage Vane thought he was a god. And now the real god is awake."They sat in silence for a few minutes.Above them, the brass telescope hummed a steady, deep tune. The dark magic continued to flow up and out, breaking into beautiful, deadly arcs of purple and gray light. The danger seemed to be passing.But a law of nature does not sleep. And a perfect machine does not like to be broken.Clank.The sound was small. It came from inside t
Chapter 461
Caster Spellbound stayed on his knees on the cold, dark blue stone. He stared straight up into the endless night.High above the world, the bright white stars had moved. They had slid across the black emptiness of space. They had formed a massive, perfect circle. Inside the circle was a deep, terrible void. It was the exact shape of the Ash Warden.The universe itself was looking down at them."Lysane," Caster whispered. His voice was broken. "The sky... it is the same shape."Lysane stood frozen beside the giant brass telescope. She dropped her hands from the heavy metal wheel. She looked up at the stars. Her dark eyes were wide with total horror.The massive beam of pitch-black magic was still shooting out of the telescope. It was carrying the terrible, toxic pressure from the Tower’s Mana Core straight up into space. But it was not disappearing into empty nothingness. It was flying directly into the center of the star-shaped monster.The universe was drinking the dark magic."It is
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Lysane walked over to him. She pulled a long, sharp silver knife from her belt."We cannot use normal mana," Lysane said. "The Warden will block it. We have to use a signature the Warden recognizes. We have to use your tether, Caster."Caster nodded. He held out his right hand.Lysane took his hand. She did not hesitate. She pressed the sharp edge of the silver knife against his palm and dragged it across his skin.Caster hissed in pain. Bright red blood welled up from the cut.But almost instantly, the blood changed.The dark gray ash inside Caster’s soul rushed to the wound. The red blood turned thick and black. It looked like liquid shadow."Press it to the silver line," Lysane instructed.Caster knelt. He pressed his bleeding, black palm directly onto the main silver line carved into the dark blue stone.He closed his eyes.He pushed his mind all the way down. Down past the high mountain peak. Down past the screaming city. Down through the cracked, breaking white marble of the Sag
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"Yes," Lysane said. "The Sky Observatory is already connected to the stars. The silver lines in the floor are alignment guides. We can use the giant telescope as a needle. We cast a massive channeling spell. We grab the dark pressure building up inside the Tower’s core, and we shoot it straight up through the telescope into the empty void of space."Caster looked at the giant brass telescope. He looked at the silver lines on the floor.It was a crazy plan. It was the most dangerous, impossible piece of magic ever attempted."If we vent the dark mana into the astral drift," Lysane continued, her words coming fast, "the endless empty space will easily absorb it. The universe is too big to care about our little dark shadow. The pressure inside the Tower will drop. The core will not explode."Caster stared at the dark blue star-map.He saw the brilliance of her idea. She was a true Master of Wards. She knew how to move energy. She knew how to build a pipe.But Caster also saw the terrible
Chapter 458
They watched the city shrink as the lift carried them higher and higher into the clean, freezing night sky.The dark gray clouds of the Ash Plane could not reach this high. Above the lift, the sky was perfectly clear. Millions of bright, sharp stars burned in the absolute blackness of space. They were beautiful. They were cold. They were completely indifferent to the suffering of the humans below.Clunk.The bronze gears stopped turning. The lift came to a gentle halt."We are here," Lysane said.She pushed the heavy glass door open.They stepped out of the lift and onto a wide, flat platform made of dark blue stone.Caster looked around in awe.The Sky Observatory was completely different from anything in the capital. There were no tall white walls. There was no gold trim. There were no bright blue glowing runes painted on the floors to keep monsters away.The Observatory was wide open to the sky. It had no roof. It was just a massive, circular platform built on the very tip of the h
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