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Chapter 492
"We are safe down here," Lysane said, trying to sound hopeful. "You said these tunnels are not on any map. They do not know we are under their feet."Caster pushed himself away from the wall. He forced his tired legs to take another step."We are safe in the dark," Caster agreed. "But these tunnels do not go all the way out of the city. We are heading toward the Old Canal. To cross the canal and reach the Outer Gates, we have to go up to the surface. We have to walk under the open sky for at least one street."Lysane’s grip on his arm tightened. "One street. We can do that. We will run very fast."They continued walking in silence for another twenty minutes. The tunnel began to slope upward. The air smelled a little bit fresher.Finally, they reached a dead end.The tunnel stopped at a heavy, rusted iron ladder bolted to the stone wall. The ladder led straight up to a square iron grate in the ceiling."This is it," Caster whispered. He looked up at the grate. Faint, gray daylight filt
Chapter 491
The Twin Moons Consortium did not play games. They did not come to arrest. They did not carry iron handcuffs, and they did not read prisoners their rights.They came to kill.The capital city was a ruined, broken mess. The Sage Tower was just an ugly black skeleton reaching up into the dark sky. The beautiful white marble streets were cracked and covered in a thick layer of ordinary gray dust. The people of the city were hiding in their cellars, shivering in the cold, praying to the Light for safety.But the soldiers of the Twin Moons Consortium were not hiding. They were hunting.Commander Thorne marched down the center of the broken street. He was a tall, cruel man. He wore heavy armor made of dark gray steel. On his chest plate, the symbol of two crossed silver moons caught the faint light of the rising sun.Thorne did not use bright blue Tower magic. The Twin Moons war mages believed that pure magic was weak. They believed in mixing magic with heavy metal, sharp weapons, and br
Chapter 490
"Caster!" Lysane cried softly. She sat up and grabbed his shoulders. "You did it. You hid us. The machine is gone."Caster could not speak. He just kept coughing, his chest heaving with desperate breaths. He felt incredibly weak. He felt like a hollow shell that had just been stepped on.Lysane wiped the black blood from his chin with the sleeve of her dirty shirt."We cannot stay aboveground," Caster finally whispered, his voice raspy and broken. He leaned heavily against her arm. "I cannot do that again, Lysane. If I have to push the magic down one more time, my heart will stop completely."Lysane looked around the dark, dangerous city.The sky above was full of red flares popping in the distance. The streets were swarming with angry, heavily armed soldiers. The air was filled with flying detection constructs.The capital city had become a perfect trap. There was no safe path through the streets. There was no bridge they could cross without being seen."If we cannot go over the city
Chapter 489
Outside in the dark, Caster closed his eyes. He felt a hot tear slide down his dirty cheek.The words hurt worse than a knife. They hurt worse than the burning pain of losing his magic.He had given up his magical core for that little boy. He had traded his own soul to stop the city from exploding. He had pulled the toxic magic into himself so that father and son could live to see another morning.And they hated him. They thought he was the devil.The city he had loved, the city he had protected with his own life, was hunting him like a sick animal.Every act of survival, every time he hid in the shadows, felt like a terrible confirmation of the lie. The Council told the people he was a monster hiding in the dark. And here he was, hiding in the dark, scared and dirty. He felt like he was becoming the exact thing they said he was.Lysane saw the tears on his face. She heard the father’s words through the broken window.She reached out and put her hand gently on Caster’s arm."Do not li
Chapter 488
The trap had been perfect. Just a few hours ago, Caster Spellbound and Archmage Lysane were standing outside a small wooden tavern, three hundred miles away from the capital city. They thought they were safe. But the wanted poster on the tavern door was not just a piece of paper. It was a magical snare.When the drawn eyes on the poster turned bright red and screamed, a flash of violent green light exploded. The magic grabbed them. It was a forced teleportation spell.The High Council did not want to send soldiers all the way to the outer villages to catch the Rogue Vector. They wanted the magic to drag Caster straight back to the capital. They wanted to drop him right into the middle of the Great Square so they could execute him in front of everyone.But the capital city was broken. The deep leylines were damaged.Because the magic in the earth was sick, the teleportation spell misfired.Caster and Lysane did not land in the Great Square. They crashed hard into the cold, wet dirt of
Chapter 487
The Herald smiled a cold, satisfied smile. Vane’s plan was working perfectly."He is no longer a man!" the Herald shouted over the angry crowd. "He is stripped of his name! He is designated as the Rogue Vector! He carries the infection of the dark ash in his blood!"The Twin Moons soldiers hit the bottom of their heavy spears against the stone street. CLANG. CLANG. CLANG."A Holy Crusade is declared!" the Herald announced. "The Twin Moons Consortium will hunt the Rogue Vector to the ends of the earth! Anyone who hides him, anyone who helps him, and anyone who speaks his old name will be executed for treason!"Toma pulled Finn and Elara back into his bakery. He shut the wooden door and locked it tight. He looked out the small window.The crowd was cheering for the soldiers. The people who had been saved by Caster were now cheering for his death."Why are they doing this?" Finn cried, wiping his tears. "He gave up his magic for us. I saw his face turn black. He took the pain so we could
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