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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
CHAPTER 299
Caster stood in the pale light of the broken sub-plane, breathing slowly as the last tremors faded from the cracked crystal core. Dust floated in the air around him like drifting stars, glowing with faint blue shimmer. He felt the shard in his hand vibrate, a soft pulse that matched his heartbeat, as if the Skell essence inside it recognized him as its carrier.The air was cold. Not a natural cold, but the kind that came from places where reality had weakened and let emptiness seep through.He lifted the shard toward the faint sky. Its blue glow spread through his fingers in gentle waves, warm at first, then sharp, like it was trying to speak through light alone.“What are you hiding now,” Caster whispered.There was no answer, but the shard hummed again. He closed his eyes and let his mana flow slowly into it. His mana, once smooth, now carried rough edges. It felt heavier, darker, filled with Skell’s unstable echo. As it poured into the shard, the fragment brightened. Sigils unwo
CHAPTER 298
Caster opened his eyes to a soft, pale light that did not belong to any real sky. It shimmered like thin silk stretched over the horizon, wavering whenever he blinked. His body lay on cold ground, but the ground itself did not feel solid. It felt like woven layers of broken stone and dreams, ready to fall apart at the slightest wrong movement.For a long moment, he could not breathe. His chest rose and fell with a sharp, uneven rhythm. Crystalline veins glimmered along his arms and neck, glowing faintly with Skell’s unstable essence. Every pulse of his heart sent tiny waves of light through those veins, spreading across his skin like threads of a fractured star.He slowly pushed himself up, groaning softly at the weight inside his body. “This place, is this a real plane?” he muttered.His voice echoed, but the echo returned too slowly, almost like it had to travel across another dimension before reaching back to him. When he stood, the ground shifted under his feet, as if unsure ho
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