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Chapter 521
Mirella’s phantom blinked. The intense hatred in her eyes flickered, replaced by a deep, quiet sadness.Caster did not stop. He walked around the entire circle. He faced the crowd of ghosts. He looked at the faceless ash-people. He looked at the old men and the crying mothers. He opened his arms wide."I am the author of the Ashfall," Caster declared. His voice was strong, echoing across the dark, watery floor of his soul. "I built the tether! I hid the truth! Your homes burned because of my arrogance! Your children turned to dust because I was too proud to admit my mistakes!"The screaming of the phantoms began to slow down. The roar of hatred turned into a confused murmur."I am a monster!" Caster shouted, owning the word completely. "I am a liar! I am a parasite! Every terrible thing you say about me is completely true!"He walked back to the center of the circle. He knelt again, placing his bleeding hand over the center. He looked around at all the ghosts."I cannot fix what I did
Chapter 520
"Stop," Caster begged. He lowered his head. He covered his ears with his right hand, keeping his bleeding left hand over the circle. "Stop, please. I know what I did."But the ritual did not care about his begging. The ritual demanded the whole truth. More figures stepped out of the fog.Ten. Twenty. A hundred.They formed a massive ring around the glowing circle. They surrounded Caster.There were old men whose land Caster had taken to build magical testing sites. There were young women whose minds he had erased when they learned too many secrets about the Tower.And then, the faceless ones appeared. Hundreds of people made entirely of dark gray dust. They had no eyes or mouths. They were the ordinary citizens of the lower Rings. They were the people who had died in the Ashfall storms over the last twenty years. They had died because Caster built the ancient tether. They had died because of his arrogant mistakes.The phantoms did not attack him physically. They did not carry swords
Chapter 519
The white chalk lines instantly changed color. They flashed with a blinding, pale, inverted fire. It was the spectral fire of the Ash Plane. The light did not cast shadows; it ate them."I give my life to the line!" Caster shouted over the sudden, rushing wind that filled the cavern. "I give my blood to the cut! Sever the root! Close the door!"He squeezed his bleeding hand into a fist, forcing more blood to pour out.The pain was terrible. It felt like sticking his hand into a boiling pot of water. The magic was violently sucking the life force right out of his veins. Caster felt his heartbeat slow down. He felt his vision blur. He was dying, drop by drop, to fuel the spell.The pale fire raced around the circles. It filled every jagged rune. It lit up the entire cavern with a sick, blinding light. Then, reality began to break.The smooth, black stone walls of the cavern started to melt.Caster watched in shock as the solid rock turned into thick, gray smoke. The ceiling above him v
Chapter 518
Caster Spellbound crawled through the broken world. Far above his head, the Sage Tower was a ruined mountain of white marble. The greatest city in the world was crushed into a pile of dead stone. But down here, deep beneath the rubble, the real nightmare was still alive.Caster squeezed his thin, old body through a narrow gap between two massive, fallen rocks. The jagged edges of the stone tore at his dirty gray robes. They cut his arms and scraped his shoulders. He did not stop. He did not cry out. He just kept pulling himself forward.His breathing was loud in the small, tight space. Hah. Hah. Hah. It echoed off the dark walls.The air down here was terrible. It was suffocating. Every time Caster took a breath, he tasted thick, dry ash. It tasted like old metal and burnt bones.This was not just dust from the falling buildings. This was latent ash-magic. It was the heavy, sick energy of the Ash Warden’s domain. It clung to Caster’s skin like wet mud. It made his eyes burn. It mad
Chapter 517
Caster collapsed onto his side. The pain was too much. The heavy, dark energy of the earth was flowing into the room, filling the lines he had drawn with his blood. The blood began to glow with a sick, deep purple light.He lay in the dirt, breathing in short, rapid pants. He thought about Lysane. He hoped she was safe. He hoped she had found little Finn and Elara. He hoped they were running through the green forests, far away from this nightmare."Live a good life, my friend," Caster whispered, smiling a bloody smile into the dark. "Read a good book for me."He forced himself to sit up. He had to finish the preparation. He crawled to the very center of the three glowing purple circles. He sat cross-legged on the raw granite floor.He was the anchor now. He looked at the metal book one last time.The final step of the ritual was the Willing Fracture. He had to purposefully break his own mind. He had to create the empty spaces where the dark god would be trapped.Caster closed his eyes.
Chapter 516
Valen slowly shook his head. He had killed many men in his life. He had seen brave men and coward men. But he had never seen a man choose this kind of ending."It will not kill you, Caster," Valen warned him. His voice was strangely soft. "The ritual does not kill the cage. You will live. You will sit in the dark, feeling the monster claw at the inside of your brain forever. You will be buried alive in your own head.""I know," Caster said. He gave a tiny, sad smile. "It is a fair price to pay. I started the story. It is only right that I finish the sentence."Valen looked at the old man for a long time. The wind blew the gray dust across the street between them.Valen Cross, the ruthless killer, let out a heavy sigh. "You are a crazy old fool," Valen said. He pulled his black coat tight around his shoulders. "Where are you going to do it?""I need a place with living stone," Caster said. "A place deep underground, where the earth is natural and unbroken. Not white marble. Raw granite
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