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Chapter 747
The blinding white light exploded. It was not a normal fire. It was a wave of pure, raw energy. It ripped out of the giant, spinning Core Array. It hit the walls of the laboratory. It hit the metal floor. Caster Spellbound was thrown through the air. He flew backward and crashed hard against the cold steel wall. His head bounced against the metal. His vision flashed with dark, dizzy spots. His broken ribs screamed in terrible agony. He slid down the wall and hit the floor in a crumpled heap. The sound in the room was deafening. It was a high-pitched, screaming whine. The giant machine in the center of the room was dying. But it was not dying quietly. Elias Thorpe’s terrible soul-engine had been pushed past its absolute limit. The safety valves were broken. The heavy brass rings were spinning out of control. The machine was tearing itself apart from the inside out. Caster groaned. He tasted hot, metallic blood in his mouth. He slowly opened his gray eyes. He looked through the thic
Chapter 746
Caster felt a heavy, numb sadness. His oldest friend was gone. "Caster!" A sharp, panicked voice called his name. Caster turned his head. Sikoa was sitting up on the metal extraction table. Her arms were bleeding from where the needles had been torn out, but she was alive. The heavy iron cuffs holding her wrists and ankles had popped open when the main power console exploded. She was pointing frantically at the center of the room. "The machine!" Sikoa yelled. "Caster, look at the machine!"Caster looked. The giant Core Array was not spinning anymore. The heavy brass rings were bent and broken. The glass cylinders were shattered. But the machine was not dead. It was incredibly unstable. The massive metal pillar in the exact center of the machine, the main containment unit holding all the compressed purple necrotic ash and red blood magic, was glowing. It was glowing with a blinding, sick, pulsing white light. The machine was making a new sound. It was not a low hum. It was a ter
Chapter 745
The giant Core Array let out a terrible, groaning, sickening sound. The massive brass rings suddenly shuddered. The perfect, smooth spinning motion completely broke. The heavy metal gears ground against each other, shooting sparks the size of campfires across the laboratory. "No!" Elias Thorpe screamed from the balcony. His green eye widened in absolute panic. The machine was choking. The energy was reversing. Because the blue crystals were deflecting the pull, the machine could no longer hold onto the trapped souls. The dark, evil grip of the blood magic was broken by the violent feedback. The first thick glass cylinder attached to the spinning rings shattered. Dozens of glass cylinders exploded all at once. The sound of breaking glass filled the massive room like a terrible rainstorm. The innocent human souls were finally free. The sick, screaming red light instantly faded. As the souls escaped the corrupted blood magic, their color changed. They turned back into pure, beaut
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"You cannot fight a hurricane by punching the wind," Caster whispered to himself. His voice was weak, but his mind was sharp as a razor. If he could not overpower the machine, he had to trick it. He had to use alchemy. Alchemy is the science of balance. It is the science of reactions. Caster struggled against the tight red chains wrapped around his chest. He managed to move his right arm just a few inches. He pushed his hand slowly, painfully, down into the deep pocket of his dark gray military coat. His fingers brushed against cold, hard glass. When he had left his secret laboratory in Fort Ironcliff, he had filled his pockets with the tools he needed. He pulled his hand out. Clutched in his trembling, dirty fingers were five small, diamond-shaped crystals. They were the Resonant Shards. They were the beautiful, glowing blue crystals he had invented to protect General Verne’s soldiers. The crystals were designed to match a human heartbeat and create a localized, deflecting shie
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Caster Spellbound dove headfirst into the roaring red fire. He did not fight the heavy, magical chains wrapped around his throat and his arms. He let the giant machine pull him in. He aimed his entire body directly into the open, screaming mouth of the soul-furnace. But Caster did not go quietly. As he flew through the hot air, the golden seed inside his chest exploded with power. His eyes burned with solid, blinding golden light. The divine magic wrapped around his frail, old body like a suit of unbreakable armor. It was the pure magic of absolute truth. The golden light hit the screaming, chaotic red fire of the furnace. Two impossible, unstoppable laws of nature crashed into each other. The collision did not create a normal explosion. It created a massive, repelling shockwave. The pure golden truth absolutely refused to mix with the evil, corrupted blood magic. The two energies fought violently for exactly one millisecond. The force of the rejection was incredible. Caster was
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"How dare you!" Thorpe screamed. He raised his hand and slapped Caster hard across the face. Caster fell to the metal floor. His lip split open. Bright red blood dripped down his chin. Thorpe towered over him, breathing heavily. The red, swirling orb in his left eye blazed with a terrifying, blinding light. The air in the room instantly grew so hot it felt like the inside of a volcano. "I tried to make you understand!" Thorpe roared, spit flying from his lips. "I wanted you to see the beauty of my design! We could have ruled the new world together, Caster! But you are just a weak, blind, pathetic old fool!"Thorpe turned his back on Caster. He marched furiously toward the main control panel on the wall. "You want to protect their free will?" Thorpe shrieked, his hands flying across the glowing red buttons. "You want them to have the freedom to suffer? Fine! Then you will be the fuel that finishes my machine! I will use your golden truth to open the gate right now!""No!" Sikoa yel
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