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"No," Kael sobbed. He did not want to lose his sadness. The sadness was the only thing he had left of Elara. If he stopped being sad, it meant she was truly gone. "Please. Leave my memories alone."The memories are heavy. The heavy things fall. It is the law.The gray ash crawled up Kael’s neck. It touched his cheeks. It touched his eyes.Kael looked at the giant black void one last time. He finally understood what Caster Spellbound had tried to tell him.This was not a monster. This was a machine built to take away the pain of the world, by taking away the world itself."Elara," Kael whispered.He closed his eyes.He stopped fighting. He let his hands fall to his sides. He surrendered.The consumption was not violent. There was no blood. There was no screaming. There was no tearing of flesh or breaking of bones.It was completely silent.Kael Dorn simply began to lose his solid shape.His heavy boots turned to fine gray dust. His blue Tower coat turned to gray dust. His hands, his ch
Chapter 444
Kael ran down a metal walkway toward the center of the room. He stopped on a small, round platform right in front of the massive, cracking glass pillar.The ash on the floor stopped rising. It seemed to hear him.The thick gray dust began to swirl. It pulled away from the walls and rushed toward the center of the room. It piled on top of itself. It climbed higher and higher into the cold air.It was coalescing. It was making a shape.Kael planted his feet wide on the metal platform. He held his hands out in front of him."I know what you are!" Kael yelled at the swirling dark storm. "You are dead magic! You are a rotting ghost! I am Kael Dorn! I am a Master of the Blue Light! And I will purge you!"The ash continued to gather. It was starting to form a partial shape of the Ash Warden.It did not build a human body. It did not make legs or arms or a face.It built a massive, floating structure.A giant circle of pale gray fire ignited in the air. The Crown of Cinders. Heavy, burning ro
Chapter 443
Kael Dorn woke up in the dark. He was lying on a small, hard bed in a hidden room. It was a secret safe house near the very bottom of the Sage Tower. Archmage Caster Spellbound had left him here to rest. Caster had told him to hide. Caster had said the dark ash mark on Kael’s hand was too dangerous.But Kael could not rest.The whole room was shaking. The stone walls were making deep, loud groaning noises. Dust fell from the ceiling and landed on Kael’s face.Kael sat up. His head pounded with a terrible pain. He felt freezing cold, even though he was wearing his heavy Tower coat.He looked down at his right hand.The mark of the Ash Plane was glowing. It was a dark, bruised purple color. Under his skin, the circle of black ash was spinning very fast. It felt like a small, frozen coin buried inside his flesh.The mark was pulling him.It was not a physical pull, like a rope. It was a pull inside his mind. The mark wanted to go home. It wanted to join the massive storm of dark magic th
Chapter 442
Finn heard this. He squeezed Elara’s hand. He could not believe it. The Tower Council wanted them to die on purpose. They were fuel for a machine."You are a monster," Finn yelled at Varek.Varek’s eyes flashed with anger. He snapped his wrist.The chain of blue light in his hand cracked like a whip. The end of the bright blue chain shot toward Finn’s face.It moved faster than an arrow. It was meant to burn the boy's face and teach him a lesson.But the whip never hit Finn.Caster stepped in front of the boy. He did not cast a spell. He did not try to block it with a shield.Caster just reached out his bare hand and grabbed the end of the blue light whip.Hiss!The blue magic burned against Caster’s palm. Smoke rose from his hand. But Caster did not let go. He did not even flinch. His eyes locked onto Varek’s eyes."I authored the dark," Caster said, his voice dropping to a terrifying, low growl. "Do you really think your little blue sparks can hurt me?"Caster squeezed his hand.The
Chapter 441
The whispers spread through the line of children faster than a fire. “He is part of it.”“He is the Ash Master.”“He saved us.”Caster heard the whispers. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, but it was not from the magic. It was from the weight of their belief. These children thought he was a hero. They did not know that he was the one who had built the tether. They did not know that the monster outside was a shadow of his own making.He was the cause of their nightmare. But today, he would also be their shield."Let's move," Caster commanded.He walked at the front of the line. Lysane walked at the back, making sure no child was left behind.They marched out of the Great Hall and into the long, wide corridors of the Third Ring.The journey was a nightmare. The Tower was literally falling apart around them.BOOM.A massive piece of stone fell from the ceiling, crashing into the floor just ten feet in front of Caster. Dust flew everywhere.The children screamed and stopped walking.Cas
Chapter 440
The children stopped crying for a second. They looked at the strange old man in the dirty, torn gray robes. They did not know him. He did not look like a neat, clean Tower teacher. He looked like a wild man from the mountains.Finn pointed at Elara. "Help her! The ash is eating her head!"Caster saw the little girl on her knees. The gray ash was swirling around her, trying to pull the rest of her memories away.Caster ran toward her."Do not touch it!" a boy yelled. "It will eat you too!"Caster did not stop. He dropped to his knees right next to Elara. The freezing ash blew against his face. It whispered dark, terrible things in his ears. It told him to give up. It told him he was a failure.But Caster carried the root of the ash inside his own soul. He did not fear the branches.He reached out and placed his bare hands on the stone floor, right in the middle of the thickest ash.Caster did not pull bright blue Tower magic. He did not try to fight the ash with wind or fire. You canno
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