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Chapter 448
It started at the bottom and tore upward like lightning moving in reverse. Giant blocks of white marble, some the size of houses, exploded outward. They crashed down into the empty courtyards and crushed the beautiful floating gardens below.The ancient blue runes carved into the outside of the Tower flashed one final time. They burned bright, angry red, screaming against the dark magic, and then they shattered into a million pieces of useless glass.More cracks appeared. The base of the Tower was splitting open like the shell of an egg being crushed by a giant hand.And from those massive, deep cracks, the dark did not just leak out.It poured.Thick, heavy clouds of dark gray ash exploded from the broken base of the Tower. It looked exactly like breath coming from a giant, open mouth. The Tower was exhaling the consequence of a thousand years of stolen magic.The ash flooded the streets of the First Ring, burying houses, covering statues, and eating the light. The people screamed a
Chapter 447
The thousands of layered voices spoke just two sentences. "The Covenant is fulfilled."The words vibrated in Caster’s teeth. They bypassed his ears and spoke directly into the marrow of his bones. "My vessel is ready."The voice faded away. The dark black reflections in the glass and the stone remained, but the sound was gone.For one more incredibly long second, the frozen silence held the world tight.In that single frozen second, a terrible, crushing realization hit Caster Spellbound like a heavy iron hammer.He stared into the dark floor. His mind worked furiously, putting all the pieces of the puzzle together.The words were not a threat. A monster makes a threat. A monster says, "I am going to kill you."The Warden did not make threats. The Warden only stated facts.The Covenant is fulfilled.The ancient founders had built a contract. They had chained the Ash Warden to the earth to hold the broken world together. They had built the Tower on top of it. They had fed it the dark wa
Chapter 446
The air inside the Grand Foyer was freezing cold. It was the kind of cold that did not just chill the skin, but bit deep into the bones.Caster Spellbound remained on his knees near the edge of the massive crack in the floor. Archmage Lysane stood behind him, holding the heavy, wrapped book tightly against her chest. Behind them, hundreds of terrified children huddled together. Little Finn held Elara’s hand so tightly his knuckles were completely white.Everyone was perfectly still. Everyone was listening.Thrum.The heavy pulse came from deep below. The giant engine of the Tower, the Mana Core, was no longer pumping bright blue magic. It was pumping the dark, heavy magic of the Ash Warden.Every time the slow heartbeat echoed through the stone walls, the sick, pale gray lights flickered. The shadows in the corners of the large room seemed to grow longer. They seemed to reach out with thin, dark fingers."It has the core," Lysane whispered. Her breath turned into a thick white cloud
Chapter 445
"No," Kael sobbed. He did not want to lose his sadness. The sadness was the only thing he had left of Elara. If he stopped being sad, it meant she was truly gone. "Please. Leave my memories alone."The memories are heavy. The heavy things fall. It is the law.The gray ash crawled up Kael’s neck. It touched his cheeks. It touched his eyes.Kael looked at the giant black void one last time. He finally understood what Caster Spellbound had tried to tell him.This was not a monster. This was a machine built to take away the pain of the world, by taking away the world itself."Elara," Kael whispered.He closed his eyes.He stopped fighting. He let his hands fall to his sides. He surrendered.The consumption was not violent. There was no blood. There was no screaming. There was no tearing of flesh or breaking of bones.It was completely silent.Kael Dorn simply began to lose his solid shape.His heavy boots turned to fine gray dust. His blue Tower coat turned to gray dust. His hands, his ch
Chapter 444
Kael ran down a metal walkway toward the center of the room. He stopped on a small, round platform right in front of the massive, cracking glass pillar.The ash on the floor stopped rising. It seemed to hear him.The thick gray dust began to swirl. It pulled away from the walls and rushed toward the center of the room. It piled on top of itself. It climbed higher and higher into the cold air.It was coalescing. It was making a shape.Kael planted his feet wide on the metal platform. He held his hands out in front of him."I know what you are!" Kael yelled at the swirling dark storm. "You are dead magic! You are a rotting ghost! I am Kael Dorn! I am a Master of the Blue Light! And I will purge you!"The ash continued to gather. It was starting to form a partial shape of the Ash Warden.It did not build a human body. It did not make legs or arms or a face.It built a massive, floating structure.A giant circle of pale gray fire ignited in the air. The Crown of Cinders. Heavy, burning ro
Chapter 443
Kael Dorn woke up in the dark. He was lying on a small, hard bed in a hidden room. It was a secret safe house near the very bottom of the Sage Tower. Archmage Caster Spellbound had left him here to rest. Caster had told him to hide. Caster had said the dark ash mark on Kael’s hand was too dangerous.But Kael could not rest.The whole room was shaking. The stone walls were making deep, loud groaning noises. Dust fell from the ceiling and landed on Kael’s face.Kael sat up. His head pounded with a terrible pain. He felt freezing cold, even though he was wearing his heavy Tower coat.He looked down at his right hand.The mark of the Ash Plane was glowing. It was a dark, bruised purple color. Under his skin, the circle of black ash was spinning very fast. It felt like a small, frozen coin buried inside his flesh.The mark was pulling him.It was not a physical pull, like a rope. It was a pull inside his mind. The mark wanted to go home. It wanted to join the massive storm of dark magic th
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