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Chapter 485
The Sage Tower was dead. Just one day ago, it was a beautiful white spire that reached into the clouds. It was the proud symbol of the High Council. Now, the white marble shell had fallen off. Only the ugly, twisted black iron skeleton remained. It looked like a broken, burned tree standing in the middle of a ruined city.The sun was shining. The dark ash had stopped falling. But the capital city was not happy. The streets were full of broken stone, crushed carts, and the empty clothes of the people who had been eaten by the dark magic.Archmage Vane survived the fall.He did not survive because he was brave. He survived because he hid in a deep, reinforced stone room under the Golden Room when the Tower started to split.Now, Vane sat at a long wooden table. The table was not floating. It was an ordinary table inside a large, dirty military tent set up in the First Ring.Vane looked terrible. His perfect white robes were torn and covered in brown dirt. His silver hair was wild. His
Chapter 484
Caster did not open his eyes. But he let out a long, slow groan.Lysane had a rare gift, even though she had forgotten how to use it. She could still feel the very edges of magic in the air.She closed her eyes and reached out with her senses, trying to feel the old man’s magical aura. She wanted to see if he was hurt inside.What she felt made her gasp softly.In a normal mage, the magical core feels like a warm, buzzing hive of bright blue bees. Even a weak mage has a steady, humming light inside their chest.When Lysane felt Caster’s chest, she did not feel a buzzing hive. She did not feel a bright blue light. She did not feel the heavy, pitch-black diamond of the Ash Plane.She felt almost nothing.Deep inside Caster’s chest, where his great, powerful magic used to live, there was only a vast, empty space. It felt like a massive fireplace after the fire has completely burned out.There was no flame. There was no heat.At the very bottom of the empty fireplace, there were just a fe
Chapter 483
It was a pain that words could not describe. It was not a physical fire burning Caster’s skin. It was a structural fire burning the very center of who he was.Every single Tower mage has a magical structure inside them. It is the framework that allows them to touch mana, cast spells, and feel the energy of the world. It is a part of their body, just like a heart or a lung.Caster felt that magical structure catch on fire."Ahhhhh!" Caster screamed.It was the loudest, most painful scream he had ever made. He dropped his hands. He fell to his knees on the cracked blue stone of the Observatory floor.He grabbed his chest, tearing at his dirty gray robes.He could feel the black diamond core inside him—the core he had forged from the Ash Plane—shattering into a million pieces of hot dust. The pale, inverted white fire that had surrounded his body suddenly went out.His skin turned from pitch-black back to its normal, pale, wrinkled human color.The pain was absolute. It was the feeling o
Chapter 482
The giant, spinning wheel of light hovered high above the broken world. It was the Runic Inversion Sigil. It was the impossible magic. Caster Spellbound pushed both of his burning hands forward. He poured every drop of his power into the massive spell. The sigil was made of pitch-black darkness, pale gray ash, and bright, pure starlight. It spun so fast that it hummed with a loud, beautiful sound.Down below, the capital city was trapped in a nightmare. The wave of deadly decay was rushing through the streets. The heavy, dark consequence of the Ash Warden was ready to erase everything."Now!" Caster roared. His voice was not human. It was the loud, grinding voice of a god.He triggered the Inversion Sigil.The spinning wheel of light flashed. It did not shoot a beam of fire. It did not create a hard wall. It released a massive, invisible wave of pure, reversed energy. It was a wave of healing, a wave of release, a wave of life.The invisible wave washed down the mountain. It hit the
Chapter 481
The wave of decay was almost at the edge of the city. It had turned thousands of homes to gray dust. "Turn," Caster commanded the living sigil. He pushed both of his hands forward. The massive, spinning Runic Inversion Sigil flared with a blinding, incredible light.It did not shoot a beam like a telescope. It acted like a giant projector. It projected a massive, glowing copy of itself into the sky directly over the entire capital city.A giant wheel of black, gray, and silver light hovered over the falling ruins of the Sage Tower. It spun perfectly.The invisible wave of deadly entropy hit the giant, glowing sigil.And then, the impossible happened.The Runic Inversion Sigil did not block the decay. It caught the decay in its spinning gears, and it flipped it backward.It turned the law of entropy completely inside out.Decay is the process of things breaking down into nothing. The sigil grabbed that breaking energy, and it turned it into expenditure. It turned death into pure, raw
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"The Runic Inversion Sigil must be alive," Caster said. "It must be written in motion. It must spin."Lysane understood. Her brilliant mind grasped the complex math instantly. "A three-dimensional rune. A living gear made of magic.""Yes," Caster said. "And I am going to draw it right now."He stepped into the exact center of the blue stone platform. He stood directly under the broken brass telescope. Above him, the stars shone brightly.Caster raised both of his arms. He spread his fingers wide.He was going to do the impossible. He was going to rewrite the oldest law of nature."I need three things," Caster said. His grinding voice echoed across the mountain peak. "I need an anchor. I need a counterweight. And I need a stabilizer."Caster closed his eyes."First, the anchor," he declared.He reached into his own chest with his mind. He grabbed the new, pitch-black diamond mana core that he had forged from the Ash Plane. It was heavy. It was unbreakable.He pushed the power of his bl
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