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Chapter 512
Every single dead body that was currently marching in the dark, carving runes and building the dark throne, was animated by a tiny piece of Caster’s own shattered soul. He was the Rogue Vector.General Corin’s lie was accidentally, horribly true. Caster was the infection."I am the monster," Caster whispered. He curled into a ball on the floor. He wanted to die. He wanted the earth to open up and swallow him. "They were right to burn my books. They are right to hunt me. I poisoned the dead."Valen Cross stood over the broken old man.Valen was a killer. He was a spy. He had done terrible things in his life. But even Valen felt a cold shiver run down his spine at the sheer tragedy of Caster’s mistake.Valen looked at the map on the table. "Get up, Caster," Valen commanded. His voice was harsh, but it was not cruel. It was the voice of a soldier.Caster did not move. He just wept in the dust.Valen reached down, grabbed the collar of Caster’s dirty gray robes, and hauled the old man to
Chapter 511
"Grave robbers do not steal ten thousand skeletons," Caster said. His voice was hollow. It sounded like it was coming from the bottom of a deep well. "And grave robbers do not carve Blackthorn runes into the stone."Caster leaned heavily against the black glass table. His legs felt weak. He felt like he was going to be sick.He grabbed a piece of blank white paper from the table. He grabbed a piece of black charcoal."Valen," Caster said quickly. His hands were shaking violently. "Show me on a map. Show me exactly where the bodies are missing. Show me exactly where the temperature dropped."Valen saw the panic in Caster’s face. Valen did not argue. He reached under the table and pulled out a large, heavy map of the capital city. He spread it flat across the glass."Here," Valen said, pointing a long finger at the map. "The Nameless Crypts are here, in the far west."Caster drew a heavy black dot on the map."The frozen sewers are here, in the south," Valen pointed again.Caster drew a
Chapter 510
The Supreme Intelligence Vault of the Crown Spire was incredibly quiet. It was the kind of quiet that felt heavy, like deep water pressing against your ears. The massive room was filled with tall, black metal shelves. Thousands of glowing blue scrolls and rare books rested on the shelves, casting a dim, cold light over the stone floor.Caster Spellbound stood in the center of the vault. He was an old, tired man in dirty, torn gray robes.Ten feet away from him stood Valen Cross. Valen wore a long, dark black coat. His face was sharp, cruel, and very calm. In his hand, he held a heavy, shining silver pistol pointed directly at Caster’s heart."Put the gun down, Valen," Caster said softly. "We have a lot of reading to do."Valen did not lower the gun right away. He stared at Caster with his cold, calculating eyes. Valen was the greatest investigator the Tower Council had ever created, before he faked his own death and joined the Twin Moons Consortium. He did not trust anyone. He espec
Chapter 509
The massive stone node in the center of the room was fully alive. It was pulsing with a blinding, heavy dark light. It looked like a dark sun burning underground. The purple energy flowed out of the node and raced down the carved lines in the floor, connecting to the runes in the sewers, connecting to the deep caves below.The new lattice was complete. The entire underground of the capital city was now a single, massive, living machine. The Ash Warden was fully in control of the earth.Silas groaned and tried to sit up. His head was bleeding. He looked toward the center of the room.The blinding purple light faded slightly. The dark sun hummed a steady, terrifying tune. And then, Silas saw them.The hundreds of ash-people standing in the circle had not moved during the explosion. They had stayed perfectly still. But now, they were moving.They all turned their heads at the exact same time.Hundreds of glowing, pale gray eyes locked directly onto the dark corner where Silas was lying.
Chapter 508
Silas decided to take the oldest, deepest route he knew. He turned away from the main sewer line. He walked toward a cracked, broken section of the brick wall. He squeezed his thin body through the crack. He stepped into the Catacombs of the Nobles.This was a place even older than the sewers. It was located directly beneath the Great Square, right in the very heart of the capital city. Hundreds of years ago, rich lords and ladies were buried here. The walls were made of smooth white marble. Beautiful gold statues stood in the corners. Large, heavy stone coffins lined the hallways.Silas had only been here once before. He knew it was a maze. But he also knew there was an old smuggler’s tunnel at the far end that led outside the city walls.He walked slowly through the dark, marble hallways. The air here was dry and smelled like old dust and dried flowers."Almost there," Silas whispered to himself. "Just keep moving quietly."He walked past a beautiful gold statue of an angel holdin
Chapter 507
Silas recognized the shape. He had seen strange markings like that on the old, forbidden posters the Tower Guards sometimes tore down. It was a Blackthorn rune. It was the dark, twisted language of the Ash Plane.Next to the blacksmith, the ash-woman was doing the same thing. She was carving a massive circle into the wall. The two small ash-children were kneeling in the dirty water, carving sharp triangles into the stone floor.They moved in perfect, terrifying silence. There was no talking. There were no orders being shouted. They all knew exactly what to do. They worked together like a hive of perfect, silent bees.Silas watched, completely mesmerized by the horror.As they carved the runes, the jagged lines began to glow. They pulsed with a deep, bruised purple light.The purple light spread. It crawled up the walls. It connected the circle to the triangles. It connected the triangles to the jagged lines.They were building a net."They are drawing a map," Silas realized, his mind
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