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Chapter 476
Caster Spellbound floated down from the high mountain peak. He did not fall. He did not fly like a bird. He simply told gravity that it did not apply to him anymore, and gravity obeyed.He was a pillar of pale, inverted fire. The bright white flames cast deep, pitch-black shadows across the dark blue stone of the mountain. Behind him, the forty-nine giant Ashbound Sentinels marched in perfect silence. Their heavy stone boots crushed the rocks, but they did not make a single sound. They were completely bound to Caster’s new, terrifying will.As Caster descended toward the dying capital city, the world around him began to warp and change.His presence was no longer human. He had opened his soul and drank the raw power of the Ash Plane. He had become a walking dimension. And reality did not know how to handle him.A massive chunk of broken white marble, the size of a wagon, fell from the splitting Sage Tower high above. It tumbled through the dark air, spinning violently, heading straig
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The monster raised both of its hands and grabbed its own head. It let out a sound.It was a terrifying, loud, grinding scream. But it was not a scream of anger. It was a scream of agony and confusion.Then, the scream stopped.The dark figure dropped its hands. It stood perfectly straight.Lysane held her breath. The silence was heavier than the noise.The featureless black mask of the monster slowly tilted down. It looked directly at Lysane through the white shield.The pale gray flames in the eye sockets changed.They stopped looking like blind, dead fire. They narrowed. They focused. They looked exactly like a pair of sharp, intelligent human eyes.And then, the monster spoke.It did not use the layered, grinding voice of a thousand dead souls.It used a single, clear voice. It was deep, it was raspy, and it was incredibly tired."Lysane."Lysane gasped. She dropped the heavy Foundations book onto the stone floor. She slammed both of her hands flat against the glowing shield."Cast
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When Caster accepted the memories, the second wave hit him. Entropy is the law of nature that says everything must eventually break down. It is the law that turns mountains into dust. It is the law that makes iron rust, wood rot, and stars die.The raw entropy flooded into Caster’s body.He felt his own physical cells screaming. He felt his bones trying to turn to powder. He felt his blood trying to freeze into solid black ice. The cold was so absolute, it burned worse than a raging fire.He felt the dust of a billion dead planets. He tasted the ashes of burnt forests."Break me, then," Caster thought. "If I must break to hold you, then break me."The entropy rushed into his chest.Every Tower mage is born with a mana core. It is a small, invisible engine of blue light near the heart. It is the muscle that pumps magic through the body.Caster’s blue mana core had been small and tired for many years.When the raw entropy of the Ash Plane hit his blue mana core, the core could not hold
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The black hand pressed against the glowing white dome of starlight. Inside the Sky Observatory, the children screamed. Little Finn pulled Elara tightly against his chest, shutting his eyes. The older junior mages backed away until they hit the cold stone wall. There was nowhere left to run.Archmage Lysane stood at the very edge of the white shield. She was only inches away from the dark monster outside.She stared into the face of the creature. It had no eyes, no nose, no mouth. It was just a smooth mask of pitch-black void. The pale gray flames that burned where its eyes should be looked down at her. Above its head, the heavy Crown of Cinders spun slowly in the freezing wind.This was the Ash Warden. And it was wearing the body of her oldest friend."Caster," Lysane whispered. Her voice shook. Tears fell down her dirty cheeks. "Caster, please. If you are in there... fight it."The dark monster did not answer. The black hand pushed harder against the white starlight.Hiss!The pure
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Caster turned his head to look at her. His face was a mask of pain and terrible, dark power. His eyes were half-black. The humanity in his face was slipping away, buried under the heavy, cold weight of the Ash Plane."I cannot stop," Caster growled. His voice was changing too. It sounded deeper, layered with the same grinding sound that the golems made. "If I stop... they break the shield. They take the children.""If you keep casting those runes, the Warden wins!" Lysane cried. She slammed her hands against the inside of the white dome. She wanted to pull him inside, but she knew the golems would follow. "You are pulling the Ash Plane directly into your own heart! It is eating your humanity!"Caster looked at his trembling, black hands. He could feel the cold, absolute intelligence of the Warden pressing against the inside of his skull.Let go, the voice whispered. You are tired. You are broken. I am the law. We are one.Caster closed his hands into tight fists. He looked back at the
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"They are hunting me," Caster said softly. "The Warden wants its vessel. If I hide inside the shield with you, they will smash the shield until it breaks. They will kill the children just to get to me.""So what do we do?" Lysane asked, her hands shaking on the silver lines."I stay outside," Caster said. His voice was hard and cold. "I fight them here. At the gate.""No!" Lysane yelled. "You are just one man! There are fifty of them!"Caster did not argue. He turned his back to the glowing white dome. He stood on the narrow edge of the mountain cliff. He faced the army of giant ash golems alone.The golems stopped hitting the shield. They all turned their massive, faceless heads. One hundred glowing purple eyes locked onto Caster.They recognized him. They felt the silver tether inside his chest. They felt the dark magic flowing in his blood.The golems did not attack wildly. They moved with terrifying, cold intelligence. They spread out, forming a wide half-circle around Caster, tra
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