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Chapter 487
The wooden floor of the small stone cottage shattered into a hundred jagged pieces. A blinding, terrifying, toxic purple light shot up from the deep earth. The light was so bright it hurt their eyes. It did not smell like burning fire or old rust. It smelled like salty tears, old blood, and pure, crushing despair. Rick stumbled backward. He held his wooden staff in his left hand. He pushed Lila, the frail old woman, safely behind him. Luna grabbed her heavy iron wrench. She stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Rick. Auditor Isaac stood on the other side of the room. He raised his silver pistol. The gun hummed with freezing white deletion magic. From the gaping black hole in the floor, massive, thick, twisting black roots erupted. They did not look like normal plant roots. They looked like giant, dark, twisted human arms. They pulsed with thick, glowing purple veins. They reached blindly into the warm living room, thrashing against the walls and smashing the wooden furniture. "Get ba
Chapter 486
For an hour, the three of them sat around the wooden table. There was no war. There were no enemies. There were no political games. They simply talked about healing. Lila told them about the simple herbs that grew in the forest. She told them how to crush red berries to stop a fever. Rick explained how the Earth Qi flowed through the roots of the trees and connected to the human nervous system. Isaac listened to them both. He used his brilliant mind to calculate how to take Lila’s simple herbs and Rick’s pure magic, and combine them to create perfect, natural, safe medicine for the millions of people in the city. "We can build new clinics," Isaac said excitedly. He pulled a small, broken silver pen from his pocket. He began to draw on a dirty napkin. "We do not need the giant white towers. We can build small, wooden clinics in every sector of the junkyard. We can teach the scavengers to brew the Bitter-Root tea. If we teach them the basics of first aid, the death rate will drop by
Chapter 485
Waking up from death had been absolute agony. Rick had coughed up blood. He had felt his ribs snap back together. It was terrifying. But when he opened his eyes... he had never felt so incredibly, wonderfully alive. Isaac slowly reached out. He placed his clean, white fingers gently over Rick's wrist. "May I?" Isaac asked politely. Rick nodded. He held his arm still. Isaac closed his eyes. He pressed his fingers against Rick's pulse. In the Guild towers, Isaac always used giant, shiny silver machines to read a patient's heartbeat. He watched green lines bounce on digital screens. He listened to electronic beeps. Now, he had no machines. He had no screens. He only had his bare fingers. Isaac felt the skin. It was warm. It was slightly rough from years of holding a wooden staff. And beneath the skin, Isaac felt the pulse. It was not a perfect, mechanical rhythm. It skipped slightly. It sped up for a second, then slowed down. It vibrated with a deep, heavy, ancient energy. Isaac
Chapter 484
Isaac finally reached out his pale, clean hand. He picked up the wooden cup. The cup was rough. It was not smooth glass. It felt strange in his hand. He lifted the cup to his lips. He took a tiny sip. The hot tea washed over his tongue. It was bitter at first, but then it became incredibly sweet and warm. He felt the heat travel down his throat. He felt it settle into his chest. He had died today. His chest had been crushed. Rick had used magic to restart his heart. His chest still ached terribly. But as the warm tea settled in his stomach, the ache slowly began to fade. His tight, nervous muscles finally relaxed. A profound, deep feeling of peace spread through his entire body. Isaac opened his eyes wide. "It works," Isaac breathed out in shock. "It works perfectly.""Of course it works," Rick laughed quietly. "My mother taught her the recipe. And my mother was a genius."Isaac set the cup down. He looked at Rick. Then he looked at Lila. "I have spent thirty years studying th
Chapter 483
The sun was completely gone. The sky outside the small stone cottage was pitch black, filled with millions of bright, silver stars. Inside the cottage, the air was warm. The terrible, freezing white mist of the Founders was gone forever. The giant hole in the wooden floor had been covered with a heavy iron rug. The broken glass from the front window was swept away. The living room was peaceful. In the corner, on a soft bed of clean blankets, Luna and Ash were fast asleep. Luna breathed slowly and deeply. Her face was relaxed. The toxic black veins were completely gone from her neck. Ash, the little girl with no shadow, slept right next to her. Ash held tightly to the edge of Luna’s green cloak. They were safe. In the center of the room, three people sat around the broken wooden dining table. They were Rick, Lila, and Auditor Isaac. Rick wore his torn, dirty green shirt. He looked incredibly tired, but his brown eyes were bright and happy. He leaned back in his wooden chair. Lil
Chapter 482
The white marble walls began to crack. Black, toxic liquid began to ooze from the fractures in the stone. "What is that?" Luna cried, standing up quickly. Isaac’s pale eyes darted around the room. His mind raced. "The failsafe," Isaac whispered in horror. "The Founders were paranoid. They wired their own life support systems directly to the foundation of the continent. If they die, the Vault is designed to self-destruct and take everything above it down into the abyss."Isaac looked at Rick. "The Vault is collapsing," Isaac said urgently. "It is going to create a massive sinkhole. It will swallow the town of Riverbend completely. The cottage, the market, the people... everything will fall into the dark."Rick’s eyes went wide. His heart hammered in his chest. He had just saved his home from the immortal monsters. He was not going to let a dead man's trap destroy it now. "We have to stop the collapse," Rick said fiercely. "We cannot!" Isaac yelled over the loud rumbling. "The ener
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