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CHAPTER 307
The sky above the dead plane was gray and silent, like a sheet of cold metal stretched across a forgotten world. Ardis Valen stepped through the thin crack of a dying rift and landed on dust that once held life. The ground gave a soft crunch beneath his boots. Ash rose in a slow swirl, drifting in circles before settling again.He scanned the horizon. Empty. Shattered. Abandoned. A perfect place for a ghost.Ardis tightened his grip on the tracking device strapped to his forearm. The screen pulsed with faint blue light, showing traces of a mana signature he had been following for daysA signature the Council insisted did not exist. Caster Spellbound.Ardis exhaled, long and slow. “This should not be possible. You should be dead.”The wind shifted, carrying the echo of distant thunder. The dead plane groaned as if remembering old pain. Ardis stepped forward, cloak dragging a thin line behind him. His eyes remained locked on the glowing trace.It felt like guilt. It felt like hope. I
CHAPTER 306
The morning rose slowly over the Archive Wastes, a pale light sliding across ink-black sands and parchment trees. Thin curls of mist drifted through the air, swirling around the floating shelves and broken pillars that jutted from the ground like the ribs of a dead library. Caster stood at the center of the clearing, his cloak brushing the cracked pages beneath his feet, his breath steady but tense.Today they would decode the Skell essence map. He could feel the crystal shard pulsing inside his pocket, faint and cold, like a heartbeat that did not belong to him. Eidric’s presence flickered somewhere inside that pulse, sometimes a whisper, sometimes a laugh, always waiting.Sethra knelt on the ground beside him, drawing long spiraling runes in a circle with a piece of glowing chalk she crafted the night before. Each rune twisted in gentle motion as if alive. Brann hammered small crystalline conduits into the ground along the outer edge of the circle, muttering to himself as sparks
CHAPTER 305
The campfire crackled softly in the center of the Archive Wastes, a tiny warm glow against the cold, shifting night. The sky above the group rippled with streaks of pale silver light. It looked like the sky was made of torn pages fluttering in the wind. Every few seconds, a long ripple rolled across it, like someone was turning an invisible scroll.Caster sat beside the fire with the data ledger resting on his knees. The Spellbound crest still glimmered faintly on the cover. He had not opened it again since retrieving it from the collapsing relay station. His fingers hovered over the edge of the ledger as if afraid the metal might bite him.Sethra watched him quietly from across the fire. Brann tinkered with a half-broken sigil gear in silence. Miren sat closest to Caster, her sightless eyes glowing softly in the firelight as she listened to the distant hum of the Wastes.None of them spoke for a long time. The air felt heavy with the weight of what they had taken. Finally, Caster
CHAPTER 304
The sky above the Archive Wastes never stayed still. Some days it shimmered like painted glass. Other days it tore open in jagged stripes, as if memories of broken planes drifted across it. Today, it was a pale silver sheet, wide and quiet, but Caster felt unease rising in his chest as he and the Archivists stood before the drifting ruin.The ruin floated over a black gulf like a shattered island of metal and stone. It turned slowly, glowing with faint green lights. Every rotation made soft echoes ripple through the air, like ghosts breathing. Old Plane-Harvest markings flickered along its broken walls. The Council had abandoned this relay station decades ago, or so the world believed. Yet the Wastes whispered differently. There were still signals here, trapped in the skeleton of the past.“This place is alive,” Miren murmured. Her blind eyes faced the ruin as if she saw every secret inside it.Sethra tightened her cloak and checked the sigil-threads in her hands. “Alive and dange
CHAPTER 303
The plane was quiet when Caster stepped through the gate of inverted light. It closed behind him with a soft hiss, leaving a faint shimmer that faded into the air. The world around him smelled like dry pages and old ink. The sky was pale and motionless, almost like a sheet of paper left under the sun. Rivers of dark ink flowed in slow waves across the ground, and tall trees with parchment leaves rustled without wind.Caster took one slow breath. The air tasted faintly of knowledge and forgotten stories.Eidric’s voice murmured from somewhere inside the crystal shard at Caster’s side. “You picked a strange graveyard to visit,” the voice said, half amused, half tired.Caster touched the shard hanging at his belt. “It is not a graveyard,” he said under his breath. “It is the Archive Wastes. If anyone knows how to hide from the Council, they live here.”Eidric whispered back. “Or they will kill you for bringing trouble.”Caster ignored the comment and began walking. His body was still w
CHAPTER 302
Ardis Valen walked through the quiet corridors of Cloud Tower long after the bells had stopped ringing. The hall lights dimmed behind him as he passed, each crystal lamp flickering as if sensing the weight in his steps. Students whispered from the shadows when they saw him, bowing deeply in respect. He ignored them. His mind did not have room for praise anymore.He reached the Archivum Chamber. The door was tall, made from pale glass that shimmered with pale blue runes. When he touched the panel, the runes shifted into a spiral before unlocking. The door opened with a soft exhale of cold air.Inside, rows of glowing pillars lined the room. Each pillar held fragments of recorded memories from Rift expeditions. Some were whole. Some were cracked and flickering. Some had been wiped clean by mana storms.Ardis walked to the terminal at the center. He placed both hands on the sigil plate. “Load Rift-record set: Skell Collapse Expedition,” he said quietly.A circle of light rose around
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