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Chapter 532
The Warden opened its invisible mouth and screamed a single word. It was a word in the Old Tongue. It was a word that humans were never meant to hear. It was the sound of a dimension tearing open.EXPAND.The Warden unleashed a localized domain expansion. The dark god pushed its own reality out into the physical world. It forced the rules of the Ash Plane to overwrite the rules of the cavern.Caster watched in absolute terror as the solid black stone walls of the cavern began to crack. But they did not crack like normal stone. They cracked like a giant, clear glass mirror.CRRRR-SHATTER!The walls of the room exploded outward. The ceiling vanished. The floor beneath Caster’s boots dissolved into nothing.The physical world shattered into a billion tiny, floating pieces of glass.Caster fell. He tumbled through empty space. He waved his arms wildly, trying to find something to grab, but there was nothing. He looked around.The veil between the realms was torn completely open. Caster wa
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The Warden looked up too. The monster did not care. It raised its six arms and roared at the ceiling, welcoming the destruction.Suddenly, a piece of the ceiling the size of a small house broke loose. It fell directly toward the center of the room.The massive rock hit the floor between Caster and the Warden with a deafening BOOM. The ground shook so hard Caster fell to his knees again. A massive cloud of thick dust filled the room.The ceiling continued to break.More rocks rained down. Huge chunks of the Tower’s old foundation plummeted into the cavern. A giant, broken white marble pillar crashed down, shattering into three massive pieces. A heavy iron door from a ruined vault fell like a flat coin. It was raining boulders.Caster scrambled to his feet. He had to dodge the falling ceiling while fighting a thirty-foot god.A shadow fell over Caster. He looked up. A giant piece of flat black stone was falling right toward his head.Caster did not run. He bent his knees. He jumped str
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The Warden’s fury grew a hundred times hotter. "I will turn you to ash!" the god screamed.The Warden did not try to punch Caster again. The monster realized the old man was too fast and too small to hit with a simple punch. The Warden changed its tactics. It used its massive size and its devastating magic.The monster raised all six of its giant arms high into the freezing air.The gray ash floating in the cavern gathered around the monster’s hands. The ash turned thick and heavy. It looked like dark gray water.The Warden slammed all six fists onto the ground.A massive tsunami of dark, freezing ash exploded outward from the monster in a complete circle. The wave was twenty feet high. It rushed across the floor, eating the stone, turning the solid black rock into weak, gray dust.Caster saw the wave coming. It was moving too fast. He could not outrun it. If that freezing ash touched him, it would eat the flesh right off his bones.Caster focused his mind. Precision. He needed absol
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Caster Spellbound knelt on the hard ground. He was breathing very heavily. His chest moved up and down. He had just won the greatest battle of his life inside his own mind. He had carved his True Name into his soul. He had kicked the Ash Warden out of his head. But the victory did not feel like a win.Caster slowly raised his head. He looked across the massive, dark room.The Ash Warden was no longer a ghost. It was no longer a shadow hiding inside a human mind. Because Caster had forced the god out, the god had to take a shape in the real world.The gray ash in the air swirled together. It spun furiously, making a sound like a terrible hurricane. The dust and the dirt from the broken Sage Tower above rained down and joined the spinning storm. The dark god was building itself a physical body.Caster’s eyes went wide. He watched the monster grow. It did not stop at the size of a normal man. It grew to ten feet tall. Then twenty feet. Then thirty feet tall.The Ash Warden’s new body w
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"I am everything you are not!" Caster shouted over his shoulder.He gripped the stylus with both hands now. He was crying. He was bleeding golden light. He was exhausted beyond measure. But he was winning. He carved the next letter.E.He remembered the blue spark of magic in his hand. He remembered the pride of teaching his students. He remembered the heavy, comforting weight of a good book.R.The first name was complete.CASTER.The word blazed across the front of the massive spiritual sphere. The white light was so intense it looked like a sun was being born inside the dark room.The black ink of the Covenant Brand boiled wildly. The dark magic tried to rush away from the light, hiding on the back of the sphere. But Caster was not finished.He stepped to the side. He raised the stylus again. Every movement felt like dragging heavy stones through deep mud. His spirit was bleeding dry. If he carved much more, he might truly erase himself from existence. But he had to finish the nam
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Caster closed his eyes. He stopped fighting the ash chains. He focused entirely on his own heart.He gathered every single piece of pain he had ever felt. He gathered the terrible, crushing guilt of burning young Jace. He gathered the deep, heavy sorrow of betraying his friend Mirella. He gathered the pure, hot anger he felt when Archmage Vane locked the children in the falling Tower.He did not hide from his feelings. He pulled them all together into a tight, burning ball.Then, he gathered his love. He gathered the memory of Lysane’s brave face. He gathered the memory of little Finn trying to protect his friend. He gathered his deep, endless love for the messy, beautiful world of the living.He squeezed the pain, the guilt, the anger, and the love together. He squeezed them so hard that his soul felt like it was going to explode."Give me a weapon!" Caster roared into the dark.He threw his right hand forward. He pulled violently against the thick ash chain wrapped around his wrist
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