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Caster nodded. He held out his right hand.Lysane took his hand. She did not hesitate. She pressed the sharp edge of the silver knife against his palm and dragged it across his skin.Caster hissed in pain. Bright red blood welled up from the cut. But almost instantly, the blood changed.The dark gray ash inside Caster’s soul rushed to the wound. The red blood turned thick and black. It looked like liquid shadow."Press it to the silver line," Lysane instructed.Caster knelt. He pressed his bleeding, black palm directly onto the main silver line carved into the dark blue stone.He closed his eyes. He pushed his mind all the way down. Down past the high mountain peak. Down past the screaming city. Down through the cracked, breaking white marble of the Sage Tower.He pushed his mind all the way to the bottom. To the giant, broken glass pillar of the Mana Core.He felt it. He felt the massive, boiling ocean of dark, heavy ash trapped inside the engine room. He felt the terrifying pressure
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"If we vent the dark mana into the astral drift," Lysane continued, her words coming fast, "the endless empty space will easily absorb it. The universe is too big to care about our little dark shadow. The pressure inside the Tower will drop. The core will not explode."Caster stared at the dark blue star-map. He saw the brilliance of her idea. She was a true Master of Wards. She knew how to move energy. She knew how to build a pipe.But Caster also saw the terrible, tragic truth hiding behind the brilliant plan.Caster slowly reached out and placed his old, dirty hand over Lysane’s hand.Lysane stopped talking. She looked up at him."Lysane," Caster said softly. His gray eyes were full of deep sorrow. "This is a perfect plan to stop the explosion. But you know what this means, don't you?"Lysane swallowed hard. Her fierce, brave expression faltered for a second. She looked away, staring down at the city far below."I know," Lysane whispered."If we vent the pressure into space," Cast
Chapter 454
Clunk.The bronze gears stopped turning. The lift came to a gentle halt."We are here," Lysane said.She pushed the heavy glass door open.They stepped out of the lift and onto a wide, flat platform made of dark blue stone.Caster looked around in awe.The Sky Observatory was completely different from anything in the capital. There were no tall white walls. There was no gold trim. There were no bright blue glowing runes painted on the floors to keep monsters away.The Observatory was wide open to the sky. It had no roof. It was just a massive, circular platform built on the very tip of the highest mountain peak.In the center of the platform was a giant telescope. It was made of gleaming brass and polished silver. It was as large as a house, pointing silently up at the endless stars.Around the edge of the platform, carved deep into the dark blue stone, were perfect circles and lines.Caster walked over and knelt to look at the carvings."No magical runes," Caster observed. He traced
Chapter 453
The path up the mountain was steep, wet, and completely covered in sharp rocks.Caster Spellbound and Archmage Lysane climbed higher and higher. They left the burning, screaming capital city behind them. Below, the dark gray ash swallowed the beautiful white streets. The giant Sage Tower groaned and cracked, wrapped tightly in a massive, spinning helix of dead magic.Caster was breathing very hard. His old lungs burned in the freezing air. His hands were cut and bleeding from grabbing the sharp mountain rocks."We are almost there," Lysane yelled over her shoulder. She was climbing a few feet ahead of him. Her heavy leather bag full of brass instruments clanked loudly against her back. She held the heavy Foundations book tightly under her arm."The ash... is getting thinner," Caster gasped. He stopped for a second and leaned against a large boulder.He was right. Down in the city, the ash was so thick you could not see your own hands. But up here, high on the mountain cliff, the gray
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Lysanne was carrying a heavy leather bag slung over her shoulder. And clutched tightly against her chest was the thick, heavy book they had saved from the pale fire: Foundations of Sustained Catastrophe.Sticking out of the leather bag were strange, heavy objects made of shiny brass. There were metal rings, glass lenses, and complex gears."What is all that?" Caster asked, pointing to the brass instruments."I did not just hide the children," Lysane said, her voice hard and full of purpose. "I broke into the old storeroom near the cellars. I salvaged these."She pulled a heavy, circular brass object out of the bag. It was covered in tiny, detailed carvings of constellations. It was an ancient astrolabe."Star-maps," Lysane said. She pulled out a roll of thick, dark blue parchment covered in silver dots. "And navigation instruments from the time before the Tower was built."Caster frowned in confusion. "Lysane, the world is ending. The leylines are completely corrupted. We cannot use e
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Caster rolled up the sleeve of his dirty gray robe. He looked at his arm. Underneath his pale, wrinkled skin, his veins were glowing. They were not blue. They were thick, dark black lines. They looked like the roots of an evil tree growing inside his body.The Ash Warden was pushing its power through the silver soul-tether. The god was claiming its vessel.Caster felt a new mind pressing against his own. It was a massive, cold, absolute intelligence. It was not a voice speaking in his ear; it was a thought forming inside his own brain.Let go, the thought said. It was calm. It was not a command; it was a simple truth. The flesh is weak. The memory is heavy. I will carry the weight for you. We are one."No," Caster growled. He dug his fingernails into his own arm, drawing blood. The sharp physical pain helped clear his mind. "I am Caster Spellbound. I am a man. I am not a suit of armor for you to wear."Look around you, the cold intelligence replied in his mind. They are suffering. The
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