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CHAPTER 278. The Plane-Harvest Map
The camp was quiet, but it was the wrong kind of quiet, too sharp, too thin, like the air itself was holding its breath. The soft hum of scanning crystals pulsed through the ruins as Ardis’s team checked their gear. The Mirror Dome loomed far in the distance like a silver bruise on the horizon.Caster sat alone behind a collapsed pillar, pretending to review harmless notes. In truth, he was deep inside Ardis’s locked data files.A projected map hovered above his palm, golden lines, shifting routes, fragments of ancient planes, all connected by strange pathways. At first glance it looked like a simple planar chart, but then he saw it. Red marks. Black arrows. Icons shaped like open jaws.Drained planes. Destroyed planes. His heartbeat tightened. “Eidric…” Caster whispered under his breath.The spirit scholar drifted into view beside him, half-transparent, his form flickering like smoke inside crystal. “You decoded it.”“I hoped I was wrong.” Caster’s voice was thin. “But this… this i
CHAPTER 277. The False Heir
The corridor ahead widened into a dim hall, one filled with floating stones, cracked pillars, and a thick stillness that felt like a held breath. Pale blue light pulsed along the walls, matching the shaky rhythm of Skell’s decaying heartbeat.Ardis moved first, slow and cautious, his boots crunching over fragments of ancient rune plates.Caster walked behind him, every step careful, controlled, hiding the tremors in his fingers from the earlier void surge.Drace and Milo scanned the walls. Rynne listened to the air as if it whispered secrets only she could hear.Lyra studied the readings on her device with growing amazement. “Commander,” she said, voice hushed, “we’ve found something big.”Ardis raised a brow. “Define big.”Lyra stepped aside, revealing a large crystalline slab half-buried in the wall. It was shaped like a circular disc, with ancient runes forming a ring around a dark, dormant core.But what pulled everyone’s attention was the inscription glowing above it, thin, deli
CHAPTER 276. Eidric’s Doubt
The ruins grew colder as the Cloud Tower team continued forward, their steps echoing through a narrow crystalline corridor. The walls pulsed gently with dim blue veins of mana, like the dying heartbeat of something ancient.Caster walked last in the formation, staying slightly in the shadows. His mind churned with the information he had stolen from the relay logs, the Council, the hunt, the coordinates, the lies.Every few steps, his pulse flared with a faint, dangerous glow. Not gold. Not pure. A creeping shade of void. The price of his time in Skell.Ahead, Ardis paused and raised his arm. “Stop here. Rynne, scan the intersection.”Caster pretended to look at the ground, but he was listening, listening to the echo of Eidric’s spirit flickering beneath his cloak. “Caster.”Caster lowered his voice. “Not now.”“Caster.” The whisper grew firmer, like a hand gripping his shoulder. “You are unraveling.”Caster closed his eyes for half a second. “I’m fine.”“You are lying to them, and n
CHAPTER 275. The Trap of Trust
The ruins trembled again, dust raining down from the cracked ceiling. Somewhere far above, Skell’s heartbeat pulsed like distant thunder, shaking the entire hall.Caster stayed close behind the Cloud Tower team, still wearing the identity of “Verric,” the quiet archivist with weak mana and harmless presence. But inside, his pulse raced with every step. Ardis walked ahead, silent and rigid, but Caster could feel the commander’s thoughts circling him like hungry shadows.Drace marched with one hand on his rune blade. Lyra checked her scanners repeatedly.Rynne kept glancing back at Caster, sensing something beneath the surface. Milo scribbled shaky notes on his floating scroll.The air thickened as they entered a broken corridor filled with floating stones and shattered runic plates.Caster stopped walking for a moment. His chest tightened. Something was wrong.“Commander,” Lyra said suddenly, voice tense, “mana pressure is rising. There’s a collapse forming ahead.”Drace cursed. “Agai
CHAPTER 274. Relics and Lies
The ruins grew colder as the group ventured deeper into the ancient chamber. The air shifted strangely, like a whisper brushing past their skin. Every step echoed in slow motion, and the shadows on the walls moved slightly ahead of the people casting them.Caster walked with his head lowered, hiding his expression beneath the hood of his crafted illusion. Verric. Archivist. Harmless.That was the lie. But Ardis’s stare from earlier still lingered in his mind like a blade pressed against his throat.Beside him, Eidric’s spirit flickered faintly in the sigil hidden beneath his cloak. “Do not relax,” the ghost murmured. “Ardis is peeling your mask layer by layer.”“I know,” Caster whispered back inside his thoughts. “But I can’t run. Not yet.”Ahead, Ardis raised a hand. “We stop here.”Everyone froze. They stood at the entrance of a tall hall, a place unlike the other ruins they had passed. The air hummed with a deep, steady vibration, as if something ancient still breathed here.Old
CHAPTER 273. The Cloud Tower Team
The tunnel walls pulsed with pale blue light, revealing broken arches and long-dead mana veins stretching into the darkness. Every echo bounced back too slowly, as if the air itself hesitated to move.Caster walked in silence beside Ardis Valen, keeping “Verric’s” weak aura wrapped tightly around him. His posture was controlled, calm, scholar-like. But inside, every muscle in his body was tense.Ahead, the path opened into a wide chamber filled with floating stones and drifting dust. The team stepped inside quickly, spreading out with trained efficiency. Ardis raised a hand. “Team positions. Verric, stay with me.”Caster gave a stiff nod. Four figures moved into the scattered blue light, each one unique, each one carrying a different kind of danger Caster had to navigate carefully.Ardis began the introductions like a commander introducing weapons rather than people.“Lyra Kelm,” he said, gesturing to the woman crouched beside a broken crystal pillar.She lifted her head. Soft bro
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