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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
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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
Chapter 439
The loud alarm bells rang through the Third Ring of the Tower.Clang. Clang. Clang.The sound was sharp and hurt the ears. The Third Ring was the home of the students. It was where the young boys and girls lived, studied, and learned how to use simple Tower magic. Usually, the halls were full of laughter and the smell of sweet ink and fresh paper.Now, the halls were full of terror.Finn was twelve years old. He wore a simple blue student robe. He stood in the middle of the Great Hall, holding his hands over his ears. Around him, hundreds of other young students were crying, pushing, and looking for a place to hide.The bright blue magical lights on the ceiling were flickering. They turned a sick, pale yellow, and then they turned angry red.Suddenly, a massive, booming voice came from the stone walls. It was the voice of Archmage Vane, speaking through the magical speakers of the Tower."Attention," Vane’s voice echoed. The voice was cold. It did not sound like a father protecting hi
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Lysanne pulled it to her chest, wrapping the thick shirt tightly around it to shield the words from the air. "I have it!" Lysane yelled."Go!" Caster gasped.He dropped his hands.Instantly, the pale fire rushed forward again. It swallowed the wooden table completely. But the book was gone.Caster fell backward, breathing in ragged, painful gasps. Lysane grabbed him by the back of his robes and dragged him away from the table.They retreated to the edge of the clearing, hiding behind a safe row of simple farming books.They sat on the floor, exhausted. Lysane held the wrapped book tightly against her heart. It felt warm, like a living animal that had just survived a wolf attack.They watched the center of the library in silence.The pale fire raged for another ten minutes. It flew from shelf to shelf, hunting down every single scrap of forbidden knowledge.Thousands of books floated. Millions of words turned to dust.And then, just as suddenly as it had started, the fire stopped.The
Chapter 437
"Yes," Caster said. He looked at his own hands. He felt the cold gray ash of his own soul-tether inside him. "The Warden is pruning its own roots.""Pruning?""A gardener cuts the branches of a tree so it grows the way he wants," Caster said. "The Warden is erasing the evidence of the crime. It is burning every book, every scroll, and every map that talks about the Blackthorn Network. It is burning the instructions for binding souls. It is making sure that no one in the Tower will ever know how to build a Pact Seal again."Lysane felt a deep, terrible chill that had nothing to do with the freezing spectral fire.The Warden was not just a mindless beast throwing a tantrum. It was a highly intelligent, patient force of nature. It was cleaning up the mess. It was deleting the instruction manual so humanity could never repeat the sin."This is not chaos," Lysane said softly. "This is a correction.""Yes," Caster said.Then, a sudden, horrible thought hit Lysane like a physical punch to th
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Lysane ran past rows of thick, ancient books. The pale fire was dancing along the wooden shelves. But the wood was not turning black. The wood was not turning to ash.The fire was completely ignoring the physical wood.Lysane stopped in front of a shelf. The pale fire surrounded a large book with a red leather cover.She watched, completely hypnotized, as the book slowly lifted into the air.It did not have wings. No wind was blowing. The book just floated upward, opening its heavy covers like a bird opening its wings.The pale fire licked the pages.Lysane stepped closer. She could see the black ink on the old yellow paper. It was a book about ancient weather spells.As the pale fire touched the paper, the paper did not burn. The paper stayed perfectly smooth and whole.But the ink moved.The black letters on the page began to shake. They peeled off the flat paper. The letters turned into tiny, floating black flakes, like dead insects. They drifted up into the freezing air. As soon a
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