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Chapter 426
Caster Spellbound walked away from the giant, charred cavern. He left the massive silver Pact Seal behind him. He did not break the ancient anchor. Not yet. The ghost of the First Sage Chancellor had told him a terrible truth. If Caster broke the seal, the Tower would fall. A million innocent people would die in the blink of an eye.Caster needed to know if the ghost was lying. Ghosts lied all the time. He needed to see the math with his own two eyes. He needed proof.He climbed up the narrow, black stone stairs. His legs burned. His chest ached. He was an old man, and his body was running out of time. But his mind was completely clear.When he reached the top of the hidden stairs, the stone wall ground shut behind him. He was back in the dusty, forgotten hallways of the lower Tower.He did not go back to his bright white cell in the Fifth Ring. He turned his boots toward the lowest place in the city. He walked toward the Subterranean Archives.The air grew colder. The smell of wet st
Chapter 425
The ash falling on the city, the sickness in the lower Rings, the memory-storms... it was not an invasion. It was the Warden trying to fix the balance. The Tower was too heavy. The parasite was too greedy. The Warden was finally waking up to shake the parasite off its back.Caster looked up at the high, dark ceiling. He thought about the millions of people living in the Tower above him. Innocent children, tired workers, brave guards like Torin, and blind politicians like Vane.Caster had told Kael that they needed to burn the Blackthorn Network. He had told Kael that they needed to destroy the anchor to close the door and stop the Warden.But now, Caster saw the terrifying truth of his own plan.If Caster destroyed this Pact Seal... if he burned this giant silver anchor... he would not just free the Warden.He would remove the foundation of the Tower itself.The Tower did not float because of bright blue magic. It floated because it was resting on the heavy, dark magic of the Ash Ward
Chapter 424
It was a solid stone wall. It looked completely normal. But to Caster’s ash-filled eyes, the wall was screaming. The magic here was old, heavy, and very wrong.Caster raised his hand. He pushed the dark gray ash from his fingers into the cracks between the stones.The stones shivered. A low grinding noise filled the small space. Slowly, the solid wall split down the middle. It slid open, revealing a dark, terrifying hole.Caster stepped inside. The wall ground shut behind him, trapping him in total darkness.He held up his hand. A small flame of gray magic appeared in his palm, casting pale, sick shadows on the walls.He was standing at the top of a spiral staircase. The stairs were made of rough, black rock. They were very narrow and very steep. They went down in a tight circle, disappearing into the blackness below.Caster began to walk down.The descent was brutal. There were thousands of stairs. The air grew thicker and older with every step. It smelled like dry dirt, burnt wood,
Chapter 423
The cell was a perfect white box. There were no windows. There were no shadows. There was no bed, only a cold stone bench attached to the wall. The light did not come from a lamp; it came from the white walls themselves. It was a bright, clean, terrible light that never blinked and never turned off.This was a Null-Magic room in the deep holding cells of the Fifth Ring.For a normal Tower mage, this room was a torture chamber. Mages were used to feeling the warm, buzzing energy of mana in the air. They breathed magic just like they breathed oxygen. In a Null-Magic cell, the air was completely empty. It felt like drowning on dry land. A normal mage would sit on the floor, shaking, crying, and begging for just one drop of magical energy.Caster Spellbound sat on the cold stone bench. He was not crying. He was not shaking.He was perfectly still.He closed his eyes and took a slow, deep breath. The air in the cell was dead, but Caster was not. The Tower Council thought they had locked hi
Chapter 422
"I accept it," Lysane said. Her voice was calm and smooth. "The archives are exactly where I belong right now."Vane frowned. That was not the reaction he wanted. But he waved his hand. "Guards. Take her down. Take her all the way down."Two more guards stepped forward. They did not grab her arms. She was still a lady of high birth. They just pointed toward the door.Lysane turned to leave.As she walked toward the giant golden doors of the chamber, she passed by Caster.The guards holding Caster pulled him back slightly, trying to keep the two "infected" prisoners apart.But for one single second, Lysane and Caster stopped.They looked at each other.The room was full of enemies. The room was full of noise and fear and politics. But in that one second, Lysane and Caster had a perfectly silent conversation.Caster’s eyes were full of apology. He had dragged her down with him. He had cost her everything. Her rank, her power, her life in the sun.But Lysane’s eyes were completely clear.
Chapter 421
"I am defending the truth," Lysane fired back. "You talk about 'containment.' You tell the people in the lower Rings that the ash is just bad weather. You tell them the Tower walls are perfectly safe. It is a lie. We have built our beautiful city on top of a sleeping volcano, and now the volcano is waking up."Lysane turned around and pointed at Caster."If you kill him right now," Lysane said, her voice turning hard and cold, "if you cut the anchor... the dam breaks instantly. The Warden will not just leak ash into this room. It will step through the floor. It will crush this entire Tower into dust in one single heartbeat. Caster is not the bomb, Vane. He is the lock holding the bomb back. If you erase him, you kill us all."The room fell completely silent again.Even the guards looked terrified. Torin completely lowered his sword. He stepped back.Vane looked at the pile of ash on his table. He looked at Caster. Then he looked at Lysane.Vane was a politician. He cared about power.
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