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Kira stared at him. Her lips trembled. "That is not true. We are neutral. We do not hurt anyone.""Neutrality in the face of total annihilation is not peace," Caster said firmly. "It is complicity. If you watch a murderer burn a house down and you do nothing to stop him, you are handing him the matches.""We are scholars!" Master Thaddeus cried out, his hands shaking. "We are not soldiers, Caster! We cannot fight them! General Verne has thousands of guns! Elias Thorpe has a walking mountain! What can we possibly do against that kind of power?!"Caster reached deep into his gray military coat. He pulled out the clear glass crystal. The memory crystal he had copied from Elias Thorpe’s intelligence room. He placed the crystal on the table. "You want to know what you can do?" Caster asked. He pushed a tiny spark of his normal, physical energy into the crystal. The crystal flared with bright white light. It projected a large hologram into the air above the table. The hologram showed th
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Sikoa kept her hand near her daggers. She looked around the room suspiciously. "Who are you people? Why did you save us?"Kira, the young woman, stepped forward. Her green eyes were sharp and highly intelligent. "We are the Neutral Alchemy Accord," Kira declared proudly. "The Neutral Alchemy Accord?" Lysane frowned. "I have never heard of you.""That is the point," Thaddeus smiled sadly. He gestured for them to follow him to a large wooden table in the center of the room. He poured them three cups of hot, sweet-smelling tea. Caster sat down heavily on a wooden chair. He took a sip of the tea. It was warm and perfect. It settled his churning stomach. "When General Verne took over the city," Thaddeus explained softly, sitting across from Caster, "she ordered the total mobilization of all mages. She told her soldiers to arrest every single person who knew how to read a spellbook. She wanted to chain us to her iron tables and force us to build her terrible purple Mana Reactors."Thadd
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The guard dropped his heavy iron pipe. It splashed into the water. His knees buckled. He fell forward, snoring before his face even hit the mud.The other three guards swayed back and forth like drunk men. They blinked their eyes slowly. One by one, they collapsed into the water, completely, deeply asleep.The heavy purple magic net wrapped around Sikoa fizzled and disappeared.Sikoa gasped for air, pushing herself up from the water. She rubbed her arms where the magic had burned her.Caster let go of the golden seed in his chest. He opened his gray eyes. He stepped out of the shadows and stood next to Lysane.They stared at the four sleeping, snoring guards."Who did that?" Lysane whispered, looking around the smoky tunnel. "That was incredibly advanced alchemy. It pierced their lead filters perfectly.""Over here," a quiet voice said.Caster, Lysane, and Sikoa spun around.<
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Sikoa peeked around the corner of the sewer tunnel. She pulled her head back instantly. Her face was pale. "Federation Reactor Guards," Sikoa whispered, her voice tight with fear. "A patrol of five men. They are heading right toward us."Caster knew about the Reactor Guards. These were not normal Twin Moons soldiers. These were men who had been specially chosen by Chief Artificer Vane to guard the highly toxic, highly dangerous parts of the city. They wore thick, heavy suits of black lead armor to protect them from the radiation. They wore heavy iron helmets with thick glass visors over their eyes. They carried heavy, brutal iron pipes that glowed with sick purple magic. "We cannot fight them," Caster whispered back. "My magic is broken. The golden magic will kill me if I use it now. And Lysane’s hands are too burned to cast a spell.""Then I will handle them," Sikoa said coldly. She pulled both of her sharp steel daggers from her belt. "Wait here."Sikoa stepped out from behind th
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The journey down the mountain was a slow, agonizing nightmare. The freezing wind bit through Caster Spellbound’s thin gray shirt. He shivered violently. Every single step he took sent a sharp, hot spike of pain through his broken ribs. His lungs rattled with a wet, sick sound. He leaned heavily on his broken wooden walking stick, putting one muddy boot in front of the other. Beside him, Archmage Lysane held his arm. She supported his weight. Her snow-white hair blew in the cold wind. Her hands were still wrapped in dirty, bloody bandages. She did not complain. She just kept walking, keeping her eyes fixed on the terrible, glowing sky ahead of them. Sikoa the rogue walked ten feet in front of them. She held her stolen heavy rifle ready. Her one good eye scanned the dark, rocky path for enemies. They were walking back into hell. Fifty miles ahead of them, the capital city of Glassview looked like a giant, rotting wound on the earth. The sky above the city was no longer blue or gr
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"You made it," Lysane whispered, hugging Caster gently. "I thought you were dead.""I am too stubborn to die," Caster offered a weak, tired smile. They walked into the warm cave. The children cheered and hugged Caster’s legs. Caster patted their heads gently. He walked over to a flat rock near the fire. He sat down heavily. Sikoa sat next to him. She pulled off her wet eye-patch and wiped her scarred face. "We lost Solon," Sikoa said softly, looking down at the dirt floor. Lysane closed her eyes. A tear rolled down her cheek. "I know. He was a brave man.""He did not die for nothing," Caster said. His voice was firm. Caster reached into his deep pocket. He pulled out the clear glass crystal. It glowed with a soft, pulsing white light in the dark cave. He placed the crystal on the flat rock in front of the fire. "Lysane, Sikoa. Look at this," Caster commanded. He pushed a tiny bit of his normal, physical energy into the crystal. The crystal acted like a projector. It threw a brigh
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