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Chapter 452
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
Chapter 451
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
Chapter 450
Caster stared at the empty clothes lying on the road. A small red shoe. A brown coat. A white baker’s apron.The Tower’s own defenses were actively eating the citizens. The machine was doing exactly what it was built to do. It was balancing the scale, and it was using human lives as weight."This is my fault," Caster whispered. His chest heaved with heavy, painful sobs. "I built the tether. I started this."Suddenly, a massive, deafening sound rolled across the entire city.BONG.The sound was so deep and heavy that it shook the teeth in Caster’s mouth. It rattled the glass in the windows of the houses.BONG.Caster looked up toward the center of the city.High above the spinning, massive helix of ash that wrapped around the Sage Tower, a giant bell was ringing.But it was not a real bell. There was no giant bell in the Tower.It was a magical alarm. It was an ancient spell built into the very bones of the earth. No one alive today had ever heard this sound. Archmage Vane had never he
Chapter 449
The floor of the Grand Foyer broke with the sound of a dying mountain.Caster Spellbound felt the smooth white marble vanish from beneath his boots. Gravity grabbed him violently. He fell forward into the massive, dark crack. The freezing air rushed past his ears. Pieces of broken stone, glass, and gold metal fell with him.He heard the terrified screams of the children above him. He heard Archmage Lysane shout his name. But he could not reach her. The distance was already too great."I will not die here!" Caster roared into the dark.He closed his eyes. He stopped trying to grab the falling rocks. He reached deep into his own chest. He grabbed the heavy, thick power of the Ash Warden that lived inside his soul.He threw both of his hands down toward the bottom of the black pit.A massive blast of dark gray ash shot out of his palms. It did not act like a fire. It acted like a giant, soft pillow. The dark magic hit the ground far below and pushed back up against him. It slowed his fal
Chapter 448
It started at the bottom and tore upward like lightning moving in reverse. Giant blocks of white marble, some the size of houses, exploded outward. They crashed down into the empty courtyards and crushed the beautiful floating gardens below.The ancient blue runes carved into the outside of the Tower flashed one final time. They burned bright, angry red, screaming against the dark magic, and then they shattered into a million pieces of useless glass.More cracks appeared. The base of the Tower was splitting open like the shell of an egg being crushed by a giant hand.And from those massive, deep cracks, the dark did not just leak out.It poured.Thick, heavy clouds of dark gray ash exploded from the broken base of the Tower. It looked exactly like breath coming from a giant, open mouth. The Tower was exhaling the consequence of a thousand years of stolen magic.The ash flooded the streets of the First Ring, burying houses, covering statues, and eating the light. The people screamed a
Chapter 447
The thousands of layered voices spoke just two sentences. "The Covenant is fulfilled."The words vibrated in Caster’s teeth. They bypassed his ears and spoke directly into the marrow of his bones. "My vessel is ready."The voice faded away. The dark black reflections in the glass and the stone remained, but the sound was gone.For one more incredibly long second, the frozen silence held the world tight.In that single frozen second, a terrible, crushing realization hit Caster Spellbound like a heavy iron hammer.He stared into the dark floor. His mind worked furiously, putting all the pieces of the puzzle together.The words were not a threat. A monster makes a threat. A monster says, "I am going to kill you."The Warden did not make threats. The Warden only stated facts.The Covenant is fulfilled.The ancient founders had built a contract. They had chained the Ash Warden to the earth to hold the broken world together. They had built the Tower on top of it. They had fed it the dark wa
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