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"I am here, my old friend," Caster wept. "You saved my life. You held the door perfectly.""I... I keep the house clean," Dorrin smiled weakly. Dorrin raised a trembling, bloody hand. He grabbed the front of Caster’s gray coat. He pulled Caster closer. "Master," Dorrin gasped. His eyes were losing focus, looking past Caster toward the ceiling. "Listen to me. The bad men... they were digging.""I know," Caster said softly. "They wanted the dark sigil. I have it safe.""No," Dorrin coughed. Blood spilled from his lips. "Not just that. They wanted the other box. The box you forgot."Caster frowned deeply. He gently stroked Dorrin’s white hair. "What other box, Dorrin? I only hid one thing here.""A long time ago," Dorrin whispered, his voice fading to a ghost of a sound. "A hundred years ago. When you built this shop. You had a friend. The handsome boy with the green eyes."Caster’s heart stopped. Elias Thorpe. "He left something here," Dorrin breathed. "He was angry. He left a book.
Chapter 653
Caster blinked in shock. He looked down at the dark corner. He saw old Dorrin lying in the dirt, his bloody hand resting on the glowing rune. "Dorrin," Caster gasped. His heart broke. The loyal old butler had saved his life. But the distraction was dangerous. When the stone wall exploded, the shockwave hit Caster’s arm. Caster’s hand jerked. His tired, shaking fingers opened. The overloaded, screaming black crystal slipped from his grasp. The bomb fell toward the hard stone floor. Time seemed to slow down entirely. Captain Vargas smiled a wide, victorious smile. "We all die!" he laughed crazily. Leo squeezed his eyes shut and screamed. Caster watched the black glass falling. He knew that if it touched the stone, the necrotic ash and the chaotic blood magic would explode.The city block would vanish. Dorrin, Leo, and Caster would be erased from existence. He could not let that happen. He refused to let the darkness win. Caster did not dive to catch the glass. It was falling t
Chapter 652
A man stepped into the dim light. He wore a dirty, torn gray military coat. His face was covered in dark bruises and gray ash. He looked exhausted. But Dorrin knew that face. Even through the blood and the dirt, Dorrin recognized his master. "Master Caster," Dorrin breathed weakly. A tiny spark of hope flared in his dying heart. Caster Spellbound stood in the basement. He did not look at Dorrin. His eyes were locked entirely on Captain Vargas. "Who are you, old fool?" Vargas sneered. "Did you get lost in the fire?"Caster did not answer. He slowly raised his right hand into the dim light. He opened his fingers. Resting in the palm of his burned hand was the heavy, overloaded black crystal. The crystal buzzed violently. It glowed with a sick, blinding mix of pitch-black darkness and bruised purple light. The freezing cold entropy of the dead Ash Warden leaked from the glass, mixing with the chaotic, screaming red blood magic Caster had sucked from the dying soldiers on the battl
Chapter 651
KRAAA-KOOOM! The explosion threw Dorrin backward. He crashed hard into the wooden counter. His head hit the wood, and his vision went blurry. Thick red smoke poured into the shop. The smell of burning blood and hot iron filled the air. Through the massive hole in the brick wall, five men stepped into the Gilded Rose. They wore long, dark crimson leather coats. Their faces were covered with black cloth masks. They carried sharp, curved steel swords and short brass rifles. They were the elite strike team from the Crimson Alliance. The leader of the group was a massive, brutally muscular man. His right arm was not made of flesh. It was made of heavy, thick metal. The metal glowed with a terrifying, red-hot fire. It hissed and smoked in the cold rain. "Search the building!" the brutal leader ordered. "Director Thorpe wants the dark artifact! Tear the floorboards up!"Dorrin lay on the floor, holding his bleeding head. He watched the cruel men step into his clean shop. "You... you c
Chapter 650
The red fire from the sky rained down on the capital city. The Gilded Rose District was burning. Twenty minutes before Caster Spellbound stepped into the dark basement with his deadly crystal bomb, the street outside the shop had been full of screaming people. Inside the small, dusty herb shop, an old man was sweeping the floor. His name was Dorrin. Dorrin was the butler, the cleaner, and the caretaker of the Gilded Rose. He was a very old man. His hair was completely white, thin, and wispy. He wore a neat, clean, black suit that was worn out at the elbows. He had served the shop for fifty years. He did not ask questions. He did not complain. He just kept the floors clean and the herbs dry. Outside the wooden door, the world was ending. BOOM! A massive blast of red energy hit the building next door. The walls shook violently. Several glass jars fell off the wooden shelves inside the Gilded Rose. They shattered on the floor, spilling dried green leaves and blue powders everywhere
Chapter 649
Caster took a deep breath and stepped into the burning shop. The heat was suffocating. He pulled a piece of cloth from his pocket and tied it over his nose and mouth to block the smoke. He had to check the basement. The heavy stone table in the basement was broken. The massive brass Mana Condenser Array was gone, taken by General Verne’s soldiers. But Caster had left things behind. He had left old notebooks. He had left traces of his magic. He had to make sure the red fire did not reach the deep, protected corners of the cellar. He walked behind the broken front counter. The wooden door leading to the basement was hanging loosely on one hinge. Caster carefully pushed the door open. It creaked loudly. He peered down the dark, narrow wooden stairs. The basement was not dark. It was glowing with a faint, flickering orange light. Caster frowned. The red magic from the sky had not reached the basement. The fire upstairs was red. The light downstairs was orange. That meant someone w
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