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Chapter 428
Caster thought about Archmage Vane’s face when the single flake of ash fell onto the white table in the Golden Room. He remembered the pure, naked panic in Vane’s eyes."I do not think Vane knows the deep math," Caster said. "I do not think the modern Council understands the true horror of the Pact Seal. They are politicians, not builders. But..."Caster paused. He remembered how quickly Vane had ordered him to be erased. He remembered how fast Vane had banished Lysane to the dark."But they are not ignorant," Caster finished. "They know enough. They know the Tower is sick. They know the Ashfall is coming from inside the house. And they are hiding it. They are beneficiaries of a lie. The lie worked for a thousand years. It kept them rich and powerful. And now that the lie is breaking, they just want to kill anyone who points at the cracks in the wall.""They are sacrificing the poor people in the lower Rings," Lysane said with deep disgust. "They let the Ashfall eat the common people
Chapter 427
Lysane nodded, her face turning pale in the orange light. "Exactly. Now look here." She pointed to a thick, jagged line near the edge. "The Council calls this the Hard Wall. It is supposed to block dark energy.""That is an Entropy Tolerance line," Caster said. He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. "It does not block dark energy. It absorbs it. It acts like a sponge. It takes the dark waste and pushes it down.""Down," Lysane repeated. She looked at Caster with terrified eyes. "Down to the roots. Down to the Warden."Caster leaned his hands heavily on the table. The math was perfect. The proof was right in front of them."There is one more," Lysane said softly. She pointed to the very center of the map. There was a tiny, complex shape that looked like a star. "The targeting rune. I was taught that this rune helps the ward know the difference between a human and a beast. It protects the living."Caster stared at the star. He felt sick. "Lysane... that is Soul-Reactive Logic.
Chapter 426
Caster Spellbound walked away from the giant, charred cavern. He left the massive silver Pact Seal behind him. He did not break the ancient anchor. Not yet. The ghost of the First Sage Chancellor had told him a terrible truth. If Caster broke the seal, the Tower would fall. A million innocent people would die in the blink of an eye.Caster needed to know if the ghost was lying. Ghosts lied all the time. He needed to see the math with his own two eyes. He needed proof.He climbed up the narrow, black stone stairs. His legs burned. His chest ached. He was an old man, and his body was running out of time. But his mind was completely clear.When he reached the top of the hidden stairs, the stone wall ground shut behind him. He was back in the dusty, forgotten hallways of the lower Tower.He did not go back to his bright white cell in the Fifth Ring. He turned his boots toward the lowest place in the city. He walked toward the Subterranean Archives.The air grew colder. The smell of wet st
Chapter 425
The ash falling on the city, the sickness in the lower Rings, the memory-storms... it was not an invasion. It was the Warden trying to fix the balance. The Tower was too heavy. The parasite was too greedy. The Warden was finally waking up to shake the parasite off its back.Caster looked up at the high, dark ceiling. He thought about the millions of people living in the Tower above him. Innocent children, tired workers, brave guards like Torin, and blind politicians like Vane.Caster had told Kael that they needed to burn the Blackthorn Network. He had told Kael that they needed to destroy the anchor to close the door and stop the Warden.But now, Caster saw the terrifying truth of his own plan.If Caster destroyed this Pact Seal... if he burned this giant silver anchor... he would not just free the Warden.He would remove the foundation of the Tower itself.The Tower did not float because of bright blue magic. It floated because it was resting on the heavy, dark magic of the Ash Ward
Chapter 424
It was a solid stone wall. It looked completely normal. But to Caster’s ash-filled eyes, the wall was screaming. The magic here was old, heavy, and very wrong.Caster raised his hand. He pushed the dark gray ash from his fingers into the cracks between the stones.The stones shivered. A low grinding noise filled the small space. Slowly, the solid wall split down the middle. It slid open, revealing a dark, terrifying hole.Caster stepped inside. The wall ground shut behind him, trapping him in total darkness.He held up his hand. A small flame of gray magic appeared in his palm, casting pale, sick shadows on the walls.He was standing at the top of a spiral staircase. The stairs were made of rough, black rock. They were very narrow and very steep. They went down in a tight circle, disappearing into the blackness below.Caster began to walk down.The descent was brutal. There were thousands of stairs. The air grew thicker and older with every step. It smelled like dry dirt, burnt wood,
Chapter 423
The cell was a perfect white box. There were no windows. There were no shadows. There was no bed, only a cold stone bench attached to the wall. The light did not come from a lamp; it came from the white walls themselves. It was a bright, clean, terrible light that never blinked and never turned off.This was a Null-Magic room in the deep holding cells of the Fifth Ring.For a normal Tower mage, this room was a torture chamber. Mages were used to feeling the warm, buzzing energy of mana in the air. They breathed magic just like they breathed oxygen. In a Null-Magic cell, the air was completely empty. It felt like drowning on dry land. A normal mage would sit on the floor, shaking, crying, and begging for just one drop of magical energy.Caster Spellbound sat on the cold stone bench. He was not crying. He was not shaking.He was perfectly still.He closed his eyes and took a slow, deep breath. The air in the cell was dead, but Caster was not. The Tower Council thought they had locked hi
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