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Chapter 708
Caster was dying. He knew he was dying. But he did not care. If he could just hold the peace long enough, the dark god might fall asleep forever.Suddenly, the absolute silence was broken.Caster did not move his head, but his golden eyes shifted slightly.The sound did not come from the giant Ash Warden. It came from the muddy battlefield below the cliff.It came from the ruins of the Crimson Engine.Sikoa had thrown the ash-bombs into the giant walking mountain’s exhaust pipes. The machine had choked on its own fire. It had stopped walking. It was sitting in the mud, completely dark and dead.But now, the dead machine was making a noise.The thick, heavy iron armor on the front of the Crimson Engine began to bend outward. Someone was pushing the metal from the inside.A massive piece of black steel blew off the front of the machine. It crashed into the mud.From
Chapter 707
The heavy, dark purple cannon pointed directly at Sikoa’s face. Inside the ruined red tent of the Crimson Alliance, time seemed to stop. Sikoa stood in front of the pale, bleeding archivist, Solon. She held her sharp steel daggers tight, but she knew daggers could not cut a laser beam.Standing in the broken doorway was General Elandra Verne. But she was no longer a human woman. She was a towering monster. She had grabbed the raw, toxic purple batteries in the War Foundry.The dark magic had mutated her. Her crisp gray uniform was replaced by jagged, freezing armor made of black steel and solid purple ice. Her eyes were pitch black, burning with pale gray fire."I am going to break you," the mutated General hissed. Cold, purple fog spilled from her gray lips.The giant cannon attached to her right arm hummed. A blinding, sick purple light gathered deep inside the barrel.Sikoa did not have blue magic. She did not
Chapter 706
The Captain’s eyes rolled back into his head. He crumpled to the muddy floor, completely unconscious. He would not wake up for a long time.The scared engineer screamed and threw his hands over his head, cowering in the corner."Do it, Solon!" Sikoa yelled.Solon stumbled into the tent. He dragged his feet. His face was completely white with pain. His chest bandage was bleeding heavily.He walked up to the first massive glass jar. He heard the terrifying, high-pitched scream of the trapped soul inside.Solon raised the heavy iron bar with both hands. It was incredibly heavy for his frail arms. He gritted his teeth. He thought about his quiet library. He thought about doing something real. He swung the iron bar as hard as he could.The thick glass shattered into a thousand pieces.The moment the glass broke, the screaming stopped. The bright, angry red light instantly changed color. It tu
Chapter 705
"Mercy is the heaviest magic of all," Solon whispered. He closed his eyes to rest. "That is why Caster is the only one strong enough to hold it."They drove for two hours. They crossed the dark, muddy expanse of the Rift Plains.The massive battle had stopped. The armies were scattered and confused by the giant, dark god sitting in the distance.Sikoa steered the truck around deep craters and broken cannons.Finally, they saw the glow. It was not a clean blue light. It was a sick, bloody, screaming red light.They had reached a forward operating base of the Crimson Alliance. It was a cluster of heavy, dark red tents set up in a muddy canyon.The giant walking mountain, the Crimson Engine, was miles away, but this small camp was a supply line. It was a Blood Forge.Sikoa parked the truck behind a tall pile of rocks. She helped Solon out. They crept slowly toward the largest red tent in the center of
Chapter 704
"What will happen?" Sikoa asked."The machine will overheat in ten seconds," Solon explained. "The glass will crack. The pressure will release harmlessly through the safety vents, but the delicate internal gears will completely melt. The forge will be a useless block of slag metal. No explosion. Just a very hot, very broken machine.""Red to the right. Blue to the left," Sikoa repeated, memorizing the instructions. "Stay here and stay quiet."Sikoa slipped away.She did not walk down the stairs. She climbed onto the metal pipes hanging from the dark ceiling. She moved like a spider, crawling silently above the bright lights and the busy factory floor.She crawled directly over the heads of the ten heavy guards.The guards were looking down at the slave workers. They did not look up.Sikoa reached the wall. She hung upside down by her knees from a thick iron bar. She reached her hands out. She grabbed the
Chapter 703
Sikoa looked at Solon. The thin archivist was trembling in the cold wind. "He is too hurt," Sikoa said to Caster. "He cannot fight. I will go alone.""You cannot go alone, Sikoa," Solon said, stepping forward. His voice was weak, but his pale eyes were full of stubborn bravery. "You are a master of stealth. You can sneak past any guard. But you do not know the math. You do not know how to safely dismantle a highly volatile magical engine. If you just smash a purple battery with your dagger, it will explode and wipe out the entire city block."Solon patted his own chest, wincing in pain."I read the blueprints," Solon said. "I know how the machines work. You get us inside. I will break the engines safely. We are a team."Sikoa stared at him. She hated seeing her friend in pain. But she knew he was right. Without his big brain, her sharp knives were useless."Fine," Sikoa sighed. She grabbed a thick, heavy gray blanket from the ground and
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