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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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Caster scrambled to his feet. He did not wait for Graves. He ran to the heavy iron stairs that led up to the street level. He climbed as fast as his old legs could move. His broken ribs burned, but he pushed the pain into the dark. He reached the top of the stairs and pushed open a heavy wooden door. He stepped out onto the street. The sight made his heart stop completely. The beautiful capital city of Glassview was a burning nightmare. The night sky was no longer dark. It was a bright, violent, bloody orange. The massive red beams from the Crimson Engine had hit the city with devastating force. Caster looked toward the sky. The red energy had not exploded like normal fire. It had mutated the city. Tall, shiny green glass buildings were melting like hot wax. The smooth white cobblestone streets were bubbling and twisting, turning into jagged, sharp spikes of dark red bone and bleeding rock. And the worst destruction was exactly where Caster feared it would be. He looked to the
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The red beams were not just flying toward the city of Glassview. They were aiming for a very specific place inside the city. They were heading straight for the Street of Alchemists. They were heading for the Gilded Rose District. Elias Thorpe knew exactly where Caster lived. Thorpe knew about the old, dusty herb shop. Thorpe wanted to break Caster’s spirit. If he could not kill Caster on the battlefield, he was going to burn Caster’s home to the ground. But it was not just a shop. The Gilded Rose District was full of innocent people. It was full of poor families, bakers, and young apprentices who had nowhere else to go. "They are going to hit the city!" a Glassview soldier yelled, pointing at the sky. Caster turned around. He looked at Inquisitor Graves. Graves was already pulling a small, glowing black crystal from his pocket. It was a communication stone. "Command, this is Graves," the Inquisitor barked into the crystal. "Incoming artillery fire! The Crimson Alliance has laun
Chapter 646
The mud fell from the sky like heavy, dirty rain. Caster Spellbound lay flat on his back. His ears rang with a loud, high-pitched whistling sound. He held his breath. He pressed his arms tightly against his chest, protecting the small object hidden inside his gray coat. He was still holding the overloaded, screaming black crystal. It was filled with dark, necrotic ash and the chaotic, bloody red magic he had sucked out of the dying soldiers. The crystal shook violently. It wanted to explode. Caster squeezed it with all his might, refusing to let it break. Slowly, Caster opened his gray eyes. The battlefield was a mess of smoke and fire. Young Glassview soldiers were crawling out of the mud, coughing and looking around in shock. The giant blue magical shield that had protected their camp was completely gone. Caster pushed himself up onto his knees. His broken ribs burned like sharp knives. He ignored the pain. He looked straight ahead, staring toward the western horizon. Two miles
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Caster turned around, preparing to walk out of the tent and disappear back into the chaos of the camp. But as he turned, a shadow fell across his path. Standing in the entrance of the large canvas tent was a man. He did not wear the gray armor of a soldier. He did not wear the blue robes of a healer. He wore a long, perfectly clean, sharp black coat. His silver hair was slicked back smoothly. His pale gray eyes looked at Caster with absolute, freezing intelligence. It was Inquisitor Graves. The highest, smartest, most dangerous spy of the Glassview High Council. The man who had interrogated Caster in the freezing underground cells just a few days ago. Graves stood in the doorway. He slowly raised his pale hands. He clapped three times. The slow, mocking sound echoed loudly in the quiet tent. "A miracle," Inquisitor Graves said softly. His voice was smooth as silk, but it carried a deadly, hidden blade. "A true, beautiful miracle."Caster froze. His heart hammered against his bro
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Caster ignored her. He pulled the glowing lavender crystal out of his pocket. The soft, silver-purple light illuminated the dark, muddy tent. The healers gasped. They had never seen magic like this before. It did not look like Tower magic. It looked incredibly old and incredibly pure. "Hold him still," Caster ordered the healers. The head healer was too shocked to argue. She saw the absolute, unbreakable authority in Caster’s gray eyes. She rushed forward and held the screaming boy’s shoulders down against the crate. Caster looked at the terrible, mutated red bone growing out of Toby’s chest. He gently pressed the glowing lavender crystal directly against the red bone. The sound was not a violent explosion. It was the sound of a massive, heavy breath being sucked inward. The moment the lavender crystal touched the mutation, the red magic reacted in pure terror. The screaming red energy tried to run away. It tried to dig deeper into the boy’s body. But the crystal was a perfect,
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