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Chapter 657
Caster raised his broken wooden walking stick. He threw it like a spear. The wooden stick flew through the smoky air. It hit the glass jar. The jar shattered. The thick, flammable oil splashed all over the stone floor and the wooden stairs. The burning wood from the broken door above fell onto the spilled oil. A massive, brilliant wall of bright orange fire exploded between Caster and the soldiers. The flames shot ten feet into the air, completely blocking the soldiers' view. The intense heat forced the soldiers to stumble backward up the stairs, screaming in surprise. "He is burning the cellar!" the soldier yelled. Caster did not wait. He dropped to the floor and scrambled headfirst into the dark hole in the brick wall. He pulled his legs inside. He reached out and grabbed the loose bricks. Working blindly in the dark, he stacked the bricks back into the hole, closing the exit perfectly. The roaring sound of the fire instantly became muffled and quiet. Caster was in complete
Chapter 656
"I prepared an exit for you, Master," Dorrin’s hologram whispered quickly. The old butler in the recording was rushing. "I knew you might need to escape. Go to the back wall. Go behind the large, empty wine casks. I loosened the heavy bricks near the floor. Pull them out. There is a very old maintenance tunnel behind them. It follows the main water pipe all the way to the city aqueducts."Caster’s eyes went wide. He looked toward the dark back wall of the basement. There were three massive, empty wooden wine casks sitting in the corner. He had never moved them. "Do not fight them, Master Caster," Dorrin’s hologram smiled. It was a gentle, kind smile. "You always try to carry the whole world on your shoulders. But sometimes, a good house stands on a strong foundation, not on high walls. Go into the dark. Stay safe. Save the world."The old butler bowed deeply in the blue light. "It was an honor to sweep your floors," Dorrin whispered. The blue light flickered. The hologram vanished
Chapter 655
The heavy boots stomped loudly on the wooden floorboards above. Caster Spellbound stayed perfectly still in the dark basement of the Gilded Rose. He knelt on the cold stone floor next to the dead body of his oldest friend, Dorrin the butler. Next to Caster, the young water-apprentice named Leo was shaking violently. Leo hugged his knees, tears streaming down his dirty face. Above their heads, the Twin Moons soldiers were shouting. "Search every room!" a harsh voice yelled through the ceiling. "General Verne wants the old man! Check the walls! Check the floors!"Caster looked up. Dust fell from the wooden planks and landed on his face. The soldiers were heavy, and they were angry. Then, Caster smelled something terrible. He smelled thick, black lamp oil. He smelled burning torches. "The place is a mess!" another soldier yelled from the shop above. "There is broken glass everywhere! The captain said to cleanse the district! This shop is full of dark magic!""Then burn it," the fi
Chapter 654
"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
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