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CHAPTER 266. Eidric’s Bargain
The air split open with light as Caster fell out of the rift. He landed hard against the ash-covered ground near the stabilizer’s spire.The once-golden structure now flickered with unstable light, its crystal heart dimming and flaring like a dying star. Each pulse sent ripples through the land, shaking the fractured plane beneath his boots. “Eidric!” Caster shouted. His voice echoed through the hollow wind.From behind the fractured crystal columns, a faint blue glow answered. The Archivist stepped forward, his bones cracked, parts of his frame glowing faintly with runes that flickered weakly.“You returned,” Eidric said, voice calm but heavy.Caster stumbled toward him. “What’s happening? The stabilizer.”“Is failing,” Eidric finished. “The plane’s mana veins have reversed. The foreign mages are drawing closer. They’ve located the ley anchor’s resonance.”Caster’s eyes widened. “They’re here already?”Eidric nodded slowly. “Their energy signatures are coordinated, methodical. They’
CHAPTER 265. Hall of Possible Futures
The fall ended with silence. Caster hit the ground hard, his body rolling across smooth stone. He lay still for a moment, gasping, eyes blinking against the afterimage of blue light. When he finally pushed himself up, the world around him was different.There was no ceiling above him, only a black sky filled with faint glimmers, like shards of glass floating in the air. The floor stretched endlessly, a mirror of silver stone that reflected his image in every direction. He stood, unsteady. His reflection stared back at him, then it blinked.Caster froze. The reflection smiled faintly, but not the same way he did. Its smile was cruel, sharp, knowing. “Hello,” it said, voice identical to his.Caster stepped back. “What are you?”The reflection tilted its head. “What you could become.”Before Caster could speak again, more shapes began to rise from the mirrored floor, each one a version of himself, stepping out of their reflections as though the surface were water.A dozen Casters surro
CHAPTER 264. The Split of Intent
The silence after Flint’s disappearance felt heavier than sound. The ruins of the chamber still glowed faintly, the walls pulsing with the last echoes of blue light. Dust drifted through the air, and every breath burned with cold. Caster stood motionless, his hands trembling. The golden runes on his staff flickered, dim, unstable. His chest hurt with every inhale, as if the air itself rejected him. Eidric watched him carefully. “You should rest.”Caster didn’t move. His eyes stayed fixed on the spot where his father had vanished. “He’s still here. I can feel him.”Eidric stepped closer, the sound of his bones faintly echoing. “He’s merged with the plane’s flow. You won’t find him by standing in the ruins.”“I have to,” Caster said quietly. “If he’s inside the ley current, then every second I wait, he spreads further.”Eidric’s tone grew firm. “You are already fading, Spellbound. Look at yourself.”Caster looked down. His fingers were faintly translucent. The gold light that once pul
CHAPTER 263. Intruder’s Signal
The fall felt endless. Caster tumbled through light and shadow, the air around him vibrating with blue energy. His staff slipped from his hand, spinning away into the void. He reached for something, anything, but there was nothing to hold on to.Eidric’s voice echoed faintly, far above him. “Spellbound!”Then the light swallowed everything. When Caster hit the ground, the impact stole his breath. He rolled onto his back, coughing, eyes blurred with afterimages.The world around him was still glowing blue. The stone beneath him was smooth and circular, etched with foreign runes that hummed like a living pulse. The air smelled of burnt ozone and cold metal. He pushed himself up slowly, blinking. The chamber he’d fallen into wasn’t part of Skell’s natural structure. It was clean, polished, built.Blue light pulsed through lines in the walls, forming geometric patterns. The design was too exact, too symmetrical. “Modern architecture,” he whispered. “Human-made.”A voice drifted from the
CHAPTER 262. Unknown Footsteps
The silence after the voice was the kind that pressed on the ears, thick, waiting, alive. Caster stood still, eyes fixed on the faint blue shimmer spreading across the horizon. The light pulsed slowly, like a heartbeat that didn’t belong to this world. Eidric broke the silence first. “It called your name.”Caster didn’t answer. His hand tightened on his staff, knuckles pale. His chest still burned from the stabilizer’s drain, every breath sharp and heavy.“That wasn’t a trick,” he said quietly. “That voice, it knew me.”Eidric’s hollow eyes flickered with faint blue light. “Everything in Skell knows you now. The plane remembers every Spellbound. It can imitate voices, even thoughts.”Caster shook his head. “No. That tone, that hesitation, that was real.”Eidric’s jaw clicked softly. “Real or not, it came from the same direction as the foreign mana pulse. That’s what should worry you.”Caster turned toward the faint glow in the distance, a rhythm of light pulsing just beyond the horiz
CHAPTER 261. The Stillborn Dawn
For the first time in what felt like forever, the sky above Skell changed color.The endless black cracks faded into soft streaks of blue. Wisps of cloud, thin, fragile, almost transparent, floated across the air. The molten rivers cooled into slow streams of dull red. Even the broken towers in the distance glowed faintly gold, reflecting something like morning light.It looked almost peaceful. Caster stood on a ridge overlooking the vast plain, his cloak torn and scorched. His staff was cracked but still alive with faint golden runes. His breath came slow, careful. He didn’t dare disturb the silence. “It’s quiet,” he murmured. “Too quiet.”Eidric stood beside him, his skeletal frame steady despite the shifting ground. “This is the calm of a wound that has stopped bleeding,” he said softly. “But not the calm of healing.”Caster watched the horizon. The light shimmered faintly, as if the world was holding its breath. “How long will it last?”Eidric tilted his head. “Until you stop br
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