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Chapter 443
Kael Dorn woke up in the dark. He was lying on a small, hard bed in a hidden room. It was a secret safe house near the very bottom of the Sage Tower. Archmage Caster Spellbound had left him here to rest. Caster had told him to hide. Caster had said the dark ash mark on Kael’s hand was too dangerous.But Kael could not rest.The whole room was shaking. The stone walls were making deep, loud groaning noises. Dust fell from the ceiling and landed on Kael’s face.Kael sat up. His head pounded with a terrible pain. He felt freezing cold, even though he was wearing his heavy Tower coat.He looked down at his right hand.The mark of the Ash Plane was glowing. It was a dark, bruised purple color. Under his skin, the circle of black ash was spinning very fast. It felt like a small, frozen coin buried inside his flesh.The mark was pulling him.It was not a physical pull, like a rope. It was a pull inside his mind. The mark wanted to go home. It wanted to join the massive storm of dark magic th
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Finn heard this. He squeezed Elara’s hand. He could not believe it. The Tower Council wanted them to die on purpose. They were fuel for a machine."You are a monster," Finn yelled at Varek.Varek’s eyes flashed with anger. He snapped his wrist.The chain of blue light in his hand cracked like a whip. The end of the bright blue chain shot toward Finn’s face.It moved faster than an arrow. It was meant to burn the boy's face and teach him a lesson.But the whip never hit Finn.Caster stepped in front of the boy. He did not cast a spell. He did not try to block it with a shield.Caster just reached out his bare hand and grabbed the end of the blue light whip.Hiss!The blue magic burned against Caster’s palm. Smoke rose from his hand. But Caster did not let go. He did not even flinch. His eyes locked onto Varek’s eyes."I authored the dark," Caster said, his voice dropping to a terrifying, low growl. "Do you really think your little blue sparks can hurt me?"Caster squeezed his hand.The
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The whispers spread through the line of children faster than a fire. “He is part of it.”“He is the Ash Master.”“He saved us.”Caster heard the whispers. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, but it was not from the magic. It was from the weight of their belief. These children thought he was a hero. They did not know that he was the one who had built the tether. They did not know that the monster outside was a shadow of his own making.He was the cause of their nightmare. But today, he would also be their shield."Let's move," Caster commanded.He walked at the front of the line. Lysane walked at the back, making sure no child was left behind.They marched out of the Great Hall and into the long, wide corridors of the Third Ring.The journey was a nightmare. The Tower was literally falling apart around them.BOOM.A massive piece of stone fell from the ceiling, crashing into the floor just ten feet in front of Caster. Dust flew everywhere.The children screamed and stopped walking.Cas
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The children stopped crying for a second. They looked at the strange old man in the dirty, torn gray robes. They did not know him. He did not look like a neat, clean Tower teacher. He looked like a wild man from the mountains.Finn pointed at Elara. "Help her! The ash is eating her head!"Caster saw the little girl on her knees. The gray ash was swirling around her, trying to pull the rest of her memories away.Caster ran toward her."Do not touch it!" a boy yelled. "It will eat you too!"Caster did not stop. He dropped to his knees right next to Elara. The freezing ash blew against his face. It whispered dark, terrible things in his ears. It told him to give up. It told him he was a failure.But Caster carried the root of the ash inside his own soul. He did not fear the branches.He reached out and placed his bare hands on the stone floor, right in the middle of the thickest ash.Caster did not pull bright blue Tower magic. He did not try to fight the ash with wind or fire. You canno
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The loud alarm bells rang through the Third Ring of the Tower.Clang. Clang. Clang.The sound was sharp and hurt the ears. The Third Ring was the home of the students. It was where the young boys and girls lived, studied, and learned how to use simple Tower magic. Usually, the halls were full of laughter and the smell of sweet ink and fresh paper.Now, the halls were full of terror.Finn was twelve years old. He wore a simple blue student robe. He stood in the middle of the Great Hall, holding his hands over his ears. Around him, hundreds of other young students were crying, pushing, and looking for a place to hide.The bright blue magical lights on the ceiling were flickering. They turned a sick, pale yellow, and then they turned angry red.Suddenly, a massive, booming voice came from the stone walls. It was the voice of Archmage Vane, speaking through the magical speakers of the Tower."Attention," Vane’s voice echoed. The voice was cold. It did not sound like a father protecting hi
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Lysanne pulled it to her chest, wrapping the thick shirt tightly around it to shield the words from the air. "I have it!" Lysane yelled."Go!" Caster gasped.He dropped his hands.Instantly, the pale fire rushed forward again. It swallowed the wooden table completely. But the book was gone.Caster fell backward, breathing in ragged, painful gasps. Lysane grabbed him by the back of his robes and dragged him away from the table.They retreated to the edge of the clearing, hiding behind a safe row of simple farming books.They sat on the floor, exhausted. Lysane held the wrapped book tightly against her heart. It felt warm, like a living animal that had just survived a wolf attack.They watched the center of the library in silence.The pale fire raged for another ten minutes. It flew from shelf to shelf, hunting down every single scrap of forbidden knowledge.Thousands of books floated. Millions of words turned to dust.And then, just as suddenly as it had started, the fire stopped.The
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