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Chapter 494
Underneath the thick, blinding cloud of dust, Caster and Lysane were huddled tightly against the fallen stone pillar. The pillar had protected them from the falling house.They were covered in dirt, coughing softly, but they were alive."That was incredibly foolish," Lysane whispered, coughing up dust. "We almost crushed ourselves.""It was the only way," Caster whispered back. "But the dust will clear in a minute. They will find us. I need to make them look the wrong way again. Permanently."Caster looked at the ground. The courtyard was covered in ordinary gray ash from the storm the night before.Caster reached out. He found another broken piece of white marble in the rubble. This piece had a different ancient rune carved into it. It was the "Echo" rune. A rune used by singers to make their voices bounce off walls.Caster bit his thumb again. Another drop of dark, black blood.He smeared his blood onto the Echo rune. He twisted the lines. He changed the geometry. He pushed his mind
Chapter 493
The charging bone-dogs leaped into the air, their jaws opening wide to tear Caster’s throat out.The blue rune on the wall flashed a violent, blinding white.BOOM!The brick wall detonated. It was not a huge explosion, but it was perfectly timed. Hundreds of heavy, sharp red bricks exploded outward like bullets. The bricks slammed into the two flying bone-dogs mid-air.The force of the exploding bricks knocked the hounds backward. Their smoke bodies dissipated for a second, and their white bones crashed to the wet ground."Keep moving!" Caster gasped. He grabbed Lysane’s hand and pulled her out of the back end of the alleyway.They burst out into a small, ruined courtyard. The courtyard was surrounded by tall, broken houses. In the center of the courtyard was a dry stone fountain.But they were not safe."There he is!" a voice yelled from the rooftops above.Three Twin Moons soldiers had climbed the buildings. They were standing on the broken roofs, looking down into the courtyard."
Chapter 492
"We are safe down here," Lysane said, trying to sound hopeful. "You said these tunnels are not on any map. They do not know we are under their feet."Caster pushed himself away from the wall. He forced his tired legs to take another step."We are safe in the dark," Caster agreed. "But these tunnels do not go all the way out of the city. We are heading toward the Old Canal. To cross the canal and reach the Outer Gates, we have to go up to the surface. We have to walk under the open sky for at least one street."Lysane’s grip on his arm tightened. "One street. We can do that. We will run very fast."They continued walking in silence for another twenty minutes. The tunnel began to slope upward. The air smelled a little bit fresher.Finally, they reached a dead end.The tunnel stopped at a heavy, rusted iron ladder bolted to the stone wall. The ladder led straight up to a square iron grate in the ceiling."This is it," Caster whispered. He looked up at the grate. Faint, gray daylight filt
Chapter 491
The Twin Moons Consortium did not play games. They did not come to arrest. They did not carry iron handcuffs, and they did not read prisoners their rights.They came to kill.The capital city was a ruined, broken mess. The Sage Tower was just an ugly black skeleton reaching up into the dark sky. The beautiful white marble streets were cracked and covered in a thick layer of ordinary gray dust. The people of the city were hiding in their cellars, shivering in the cold, praying to the Light for safety.But the soldiers of the Twin Moons Consortium were not hiding. They were hunting.Commander Thorne marched down the center of the broken street. He was a tall, cruel man. He wore heavy armor made of dark gray steel. On his chest plate, the symbol of two crossed silver moons caught the faint light of the rising sun.Thorne did not use bright blue Tower magic. The Twin Moons war mages believed that pure magic was weak. They believed in mixing magic with heavy metal, sharp weapons, and br
Chapter 490
"Caster!" Lysane cried softly. She sat up and grabbed his shoulders. "You did it. You hid us. The machine is gone."Caster could not speak. He just kept coughing, his chest heaving with desperate breaths. He felt incredibly weak. He felt like a hollow shell that had just been stepped on.Lysane wiped the black blood from his chin with the sleeve of her dirty shirt."We cannot stay aboveground," Caster finally whispered, his voice raspy and broken. He leaned heavily against her arm. "I cannot do that again, Lysane. If I have to push the magic down one more time, my heart will stop completely."Lysane looked around the dark, dangerous city.The sky above was full of red flares popping in the distance. The streets were swarming with angry, heavily armed soldiers. The air was filled with flying detection constructs.The capital city had become a perfect trap. There was no safe path through the streets. There was no bridge they could cross without being seen."If we cannot go over the city
Chapter 489
Outside in the dark, Caster closed his eyes. He felt a hot tear slide down his dirty cheek.The words hurt worse than a knife. They hurt worse than the burning pain of losing his magic.He had given up his magical core for that little boy. He had traded his own soul to stop the city from exploding. He had pulled the toxic magic into himself so that father and son could live to see another morning.And they hated him. They thought he was the devil.The city he had loved, the city he had protected with his own life, was hunting him like a sick animal.Every act of survival, every time he hid in the shadows, felt like a terrible confirmation of the lie. The Council told the people he was a monster hiding in the dark. And here he was, hiding in the dark, scared and dirty. He felt like he was becoming the exact thing they said he was.Lysane saw the tears on his face. She heard the father’s words through the broken window.She reached out and put her hand gently on Caster’s arm."Do not li
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