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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
CHAPTER 301
The Astral Belt stretched below the citadel like a swirling ocean of silver dust, its waves shifting with every distant star pulse. At the very center of that shining sea floated a towering structure of black stone and shimmering metal. It rose like a spear aimed at the heavens, held in place by enormous gravity-anchors that glowed with blue runes. The air around it vibrated with pressure, as if reality itself respected the weight of the power seated inside. This was the Plane-Harvest Council Citadel.Inside its highest chamber, nine tall chairs formed a perfect circle. Each chair belonged to a Tower faction that ruled over the ley-grid. The chamber itself had no ceiling. Instead, a vast dome of transparent mana allowed the stars to be seen as if they were pressed right against the glass. When one star flickered, the chamber dimmed. When another brightened, the runes underfoot glowed.Nine cloaked figures sat in silence. Their breaths were calm. But the air around them thrummed w
CHAPTER 300
The sub-plane around Caster shook like a dying creature struggling to breathe. The pale horizon bent inward, folding and unfolding in slow waves, as if the world were made of thin paper caught in a storm. Each layer of the collapsing dimension hummed with Skell’s leftover essence. Even the air trembled, pulsing with faint blue light that flickered inside every grain of dust.Caster stood at the edge of a cracked floating platform, staring at the horizon that kept tearing itself apart. The last traces of Skell memory drifted like ash through the light. His cloak fluttered behind him, brushing against the unstable air currents. His arms glowed faintly beneath his sleeves. Crystalline veins pulsed along his skin, alive with dangerous mana that did not belong to any human.He held the shard tightly in his right hand. It hummed softly, almost like a heartbeat.The whisper came again. “You could become what they wanted.”Eidric’s voice slithered across the air, slipping easily into the s
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