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"Yes," Caster said. As soon as Caster spoke the word, the physical world inside the Grand Archive began to break. The sheer weight of the corrupted data flooding the network was too much for reality to handle. The room began to glitch. It did not happen smoothly. It happened with violent, terrifying jerks. Sikoa looked down at her hands. She was holding the heavy iron crank of the generator. But suddenly, her hands were not there. For one split second, Sikoa’s hands turned completely transparent. She could see the stone floor right through her own flesh and bone. She let out a short scream of panic. Her hands became solid again. The heavy iron crank slipped from her sweaty grip. "My hands!" Sikoa gasped, staring at her fingers. "They vanished!""The world is forgetting how to hold its shape!" Caster shouted. "The rules are breaking down!"A heavy wooden reading table on the balcony suddenly turned into a puddle of clear water. The water splashed onto the floor. Two seconds later,
Chapter 776
"Yes," Caster said. "They stored the exact rule of gravity inside the network. They stored the exact speed of light. They stored the rule that fire must be hot. The network is an invisible skeleton buried inside the earth. It forces the physical world to obey the rules. It keeps reality stable."Solon read the next line of the glowing blue text. Tears filled the pale archivist’s eyes. "But a machine that holds the weight of the universe requires infinite power," Solon read aloud, his voice trembling with sorrow. "Raw mana from the earth was not enough. To power the Memory Vaults... the founders had to use the heaviest magic in existence."Caster finished the sentence for him. "They used their own souls," Caster whispered. The silence in the room felt heavier than the shaking stone walls. "The ancient founders did not just build the network," Caster explained. "They plugged themselves into it. They gave up their own lives. They trapped their own human souls inside the nodes to act a
Chapter 775
The bright blue numbers floated in the air above the giant holographic globe. They were counting down. With every second that passed, the massive, spherical room of the Grand Archive shook more violently. Dust rained down from the high ceiling like a gray snowstorm. The thick, heavy stone walls groaned. The sound was deafening. It sounded like the entire planet was grinding its teeth together. Caster Spellbound stood on the central platform. He stared at the numbers. He was a brilliant Archmage. He had lived for two hundred years. But right now, he felt completely helpless. He had no blue magic. His body was broken and bleeding. Thirty minutes until the world turned to atomic dust. "We have to stop the timer!" Sikoa shouted. The brave rogue stood on the balcony. She had dropped her sharp steel daggers. She was holding the heavy iron crank of the portable kinetic generator. "I am trying!" Solon coughed. The tall, thin archivist was kneeling on the stone floor next to the brass ge
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"But the node is not above the city," Sikoa pointed out, looking at the depth markers on the hologram. "The light is not on the surface.""No," Solon said softly. The archivist fell back into his chair. He looked like a man who had just read his own death sentence. "It is not in the city. It is miles directly beneath the city. It is exactly where we are standing right now."Sikoa stopped breathing. She slowly turned her head. She looked at the smooth white walls of the Grand Archive. She looked at the floor beneath her dirty boots. They were not just looking at a map of a bomb. They were standing directly inside the bomb. "The central node," Caster said quietly. "The true Blackthorn Gate. Elias Thorpe was right. It is buried right here, at the absolute bottom of the Sage Tower."Caster’s genius mind immediately did the terrible, apocalyptic math. He knew how much energy was flowing through those red lines. He knew the capacity of the central node. "If all that planar energy hits th
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Sikoa stared at the giant globe. "It looks like a perfect machine.""It was," Caster said. "Until we broke it."Suddenly, the peaceful blue and silver light of the globe was interrupted. A tiny, bright red dot appeared on the surface of the map. It popped up near the northern mountains. Then, another red dot appeared in the eastern desert. Then, three more red dots appeared in the middle of the ocean. "What are those red marks?" Sikoa asked, pointing at the globe. Her voice sounded nervous. Caster stared at the red dots. His gray eyes narrowed. He stepped closer to the edge of the balcony. "Look at the coordinates," Caster whispered. He pointed to the red dot near the mountains. "That is exactly where we were standing two hours ago. That is the cliff where the giant ring of eyes fell from the sky."Solon gasped. "The planar rifts.""Yes," Caster said. His face turned incredibly pale. "Those red dots are the tears in reality. They are the open doors to the Ash Void."They watched i
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The portable generators roared to life. Because they were not using magic, the corrupted red network could not block them. They were creating pure, physical, raw electrical power. Sparks flew from the copper wires. The clean, bright blue electricity shot down the cables and poured directly into the stone pillar. "Now," Solon whispered. His fingers flew across the ancient stone keyboard on the sub-terminal. He typed incredibly fast. "Stop!" Thorpe shouted. The giant red face in the master crystal began to flicker. "Thorpe used a chaotic blood-virus to lock the doors," Solon explained to Caster and Sikoa, typing furiously. Sweat poured down his face. "But blood magic is unstable. It is messy. If I flood the system with pure, clean, organized power... the virus will be washed away. Like pouring a bucket of clean water onto a dirty plate.""Turn faster, Sikoa!" Solon gasped. His chest wound burned, but he ignored the pain. Sikoa gritted her teeth. Her strong, muscular arm spun the ir
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