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CHAPTER 291
The world was breaking apart. The duel at the Fractured Spire had torn through every layer of the Skell Plane, ripping holes in the sky and shaking the ground until it no longer felt like ground at all. The air twisted in spirals of burning light. The wind moved without reason, sometimes pulling inward, sometimes pushing everything away as if the world was breathing in pain.Caster stood on what remained of the Spire platform, gasping for air. His chest hurt with every breath, and his arms trembled as he held the glowing core crystal to his body. The crystal pulsed slowly, like a dying heartbeat. Each pulse sent warmth into his hands, but the warmth felt weaker every time.Below him, massive cracks split across the plane, revealing rivers of raw mana gushing like molten streams. The sky above him fissured open, leaking white light that flickered like lightning trapped inside glass.Ardis stumbled away from the last shockwave, falling to one knee. His armor was cracked in several pl
CHAPTER 290
The wind screamed across the shattered platform as the two figures faced each other. Caster stood with his chest rising and falling in slow, painful breaths, the Skell core glowing faintly in his left hand. His right hand trembled, coated in thin streaks of void light that flickered like dying stars. His clothes were torn, and blood-soaked one of his sleeves, but his eyes still held a fierce, burning resolve.Across from him, Ardis Valen stepped through the drifting dust. His weapon hummed with a sharp blue glow, each pulse steady and cold. The air around him bent in strange ripples as circuits in his armor activated, pulling mana directly from the environment and shaping it into controlled power. His stance was confident, stable, and full of deadly focus.Far above them, the Spire towered like a wounded giant. Cracks glowed across its length, leaking unstable mana that dripped like liquid starlight. The sky twisted around the Spire as the plane’s laws continued to break apart,
CHAPTER 289
The silence between them felt like a blade drawn too slowly from its sheath. The forge around them pulsed with fading light, still trembling from Eidric’s final sacrifice. Caster stood with the glowing Skell core pressed tightly to his chest, the warmth of it bleeding into his trembling fingers. His face was pale with grief and exhaustion, but his eyes burned with a quiet fury.Ardis stepped forward, his boots crunching over broken pieces of rune-stone. He held his weapon steady, the edge glowing with a thin line of charged mana.“Caster,” Ardis said in a calm, level voice, “hand me the crystal. Now.”Caster didn’t move. His voice came out low and even, but full of emotion. “You’re not getting it. Not after everything you have done.”Ardis sighed softly, almost disappointed but not surprised. “I thought you might say that. You always did like pretending you had choices.” His eyes hardened. “But this is not a choice. This is an order.”Lyra and Milo stood behind him, their faces pale
CHAPTER 288. EIDRIC’S FAREWELL
The crystal pulsed softly in the center of the broken forge. Its light shimmered like a single heartbeat in the middle of a collapsing world. Caster knelt beside it, his hands trembling as he touched the warm surface. The glow was calm. Too calm. It frightened him.“Eidric,” he whispered, barely able to speak. “Answer me.”Nothing.He pressed his forehead against the crystal. “Eidric, please. Say something.”Still nothing.Caster’s breath shook. His chest felt tight, as if someone had reached into him and pulled something loose from inside. Around him, the Skell Plane trembled again. The ground cracked in slow waves. Part of the sky flickered, turning black like burnt pages.He did not look up. He did not care. The crystal pulsed again, this time with a softer rhythm. It felt like a sigh, like something fading.Caster gripped it with both hands. “Eidric… you promised. You promised to stay with me.”A faint shape flickered inside the crystal. It was small, nothing more than a driftin
CHAPTER 287. THE ESSENCE FORGE
Caster worked with shaking hands, carving runes directly into the jagged ground. The stone felt cold and brittle beneath his fingers, as if it knew the plane around it was dying. Every scratch of a rune sent small sparks into the air, and every spark made the unstable mana around him quiver.His breaths came in heavy, uneven gasps, but he did not stop. He could not stop.The deeper he carved, the more the plane trembled, but he forced his hands to keep moving. The runes had to be perfect. One mistake would destroy him. One flaw would shatter everything.Eidric drifted beside him like a broken lantern light, flickering in and out with each pulse of the collapsing plane.“Caster,” Eidric whispered, “your hands are shaking too much. Slow down.”“I cannot slow down,” Caster said, voice tight. “The plane is falling faster than I expected. If I do not finish this forge now, it will be pointless. Everything will be gone.”“You are carving forbidden runes,” Eidric reminded him softly. “Rune
CHAPTER 286
The silence after the battle did not feel peaceful. It felt wrong. It felt like a deep breath held too long by something ancient and wounded. Caster pushed himself up from the broken ground, his body trembling with pain. Dust settled slowly around him like falling ash. Every time he inhaled, it felt like the air itself resisted him.He touched his ribs and winced. His hands came away stained with blood and thin streaks of dark void energy. His body was barely holding together, and the Skell Plane was in even worse shape.The ground beneath him shuddered with a low, sickening vibration. It felt like a heartbeat that could not find its rhythm. A heartbeat ready to stop.Eidric hovered close, but his form flickered like a dying candle. Parts of his translucent body faded in and out, as if the plane was pulling pieces of him away.“Caster,” Eidric whispered. His voice sounded thin, stretched. “The rupture from the battle has accelerated the collapse.”Caster forced himself to stand fully
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