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Chapter 424
It was a solid stone wall. It looked completely normal. But to Caster’s ash-filled eyes, the wall was screaming. The magic here was old, heavy, and very wrong.Caster raised his hand. He pushed the dark gray ash from his fingers into the cracks between the stones.The stones shivered. A low grinding noise filled the small space. Slowly, the solid wall split down the middle. It slid open, revealing a dark, terrifying hole.Caster stepped inside. The wall ground shut behind him, trapping him in total darkness.He held up his hand. A small flame of gray magic appeared in his palm, casting pale, sick shadows on the walls.He was standing at the top of a spiral staircase. The stairs were made of rough, black rock. They were very narrow and very steep. They went down in a tight circle, disappearing into the blackness below.Caster began to walk down.The descent was brutal. There were thousands of stairs. The air grew thicker and older with every step. It smelled like dry dirt, burnt wood,
Chapter 423
The cell was a perfect white box. There were no windows. There were no shadows. There was no bed, only a cold stone bench attached to the wall. The light did not come from a lamp; it came from the white walls themselves. It was a bright, clean, terrible light that never blinked and never turned off.This was a Null-Magic room in the deep holding cells of the Fifth Ring.For a normal Tower mage, this room was a torture chamber. Mages were used to feeling the warm, buzzing energy of mana in the air. They breathed magic just like they breathed oxygen. In a Null-Magic cell, the air was completely empty. It felt like drowning on dry land. A normal mage would sit on the floor, shaking, crying, and begging for just one drop of magical energy.Caster Spellbound sat on the cold stone bench. He was not crying. He was not shaking.He was perfectly still.He closed his eyes and took a slow, deep breath. The air in the cell was dead, but Caster was not. The Tower Council thought they had locked hi
Chapter 422
"I accept it," Lysane said. Her voice was calm and smooth. "The archives are exactly where I belong right now."Vane frowned. That was not the reaction he wanted. But he waved his hand. "Guards. Take her down. Take her all the way down."Two more guards stepped forward. They did not grab her arms. She was still a lady of high birth. They just pointed toward the door.Lysane turned to leave.As she walked toward the giant golden doors of the chamber, she passed by Caster.The guards holding Caster pulled him back slightly, trying to keep the two "infected" prisoners apart.But for one single second, Lysane and Caster stopped.They looked at each other.The room was full of enemies. The room was full of noise and fear and politics. But in that one second, Lysane and Caster had a perfectly silent conversation.Caster’s eyes were full of apology. He had dragged her down with him. He had cost her everything. Her rank, her power, her life in the sun.But Lysane’s eyes were completely clear.
Chapter 421
"I am defending the truth," Lysane fired back. "You talk about 'containment.' You tell the people in the lower Rings that the ash is just bad weather. You tell them the Tower walls are perfectly safe. It is a lie. We have built our beautiful city on top of a sleeping volcano, and now the volcano is waking up."Lysane turned around and pointed at Caster."If you kill him right now," Lysane said, her voice turning hard and cold, "if you cut the anchor... the dam breaks instantly. The Warden will not just leak ash into this room. It will step through the floor. It will crush this entire Tower into dust in one single heartbeat. Caster is not the bomb, Vane. He is the lock holding the bomb back. If you erase him, you kill us all."The room fell completely silent again.Even the guards looked terrified. Torin completely lowered his sword. He stepped back.Vane looked at the pile of ash on his table. He looked at Caster. Then he looked at Lysane.Vane was a politician. He cared about power.
Chapter 420
The gray ash continued to fall in the Golden Room. It was completely silent. The twelve Archmages of the High Council sat frozen in their floating white chairs. The beautiful, glowing golden lines on the walls seemed to dim. The bright blue magic of the Tower felt very weak in this freezing cold air.Archmage Vane stared at the small pile of gray dust on his perfectly clean, floating white table. His hands were shaking. He was the most powerful man in the Tower, but right now, he looked like a scared child.He slowly looked up at Caster Spellbound.Caster stood in the center of the room. He was covered in dried blood and old dirt. He was tired. But his eyes were sharp. He had warned them. Now, the warning was falling right onto their laps."Kill him," Vane whispered.The words were so quiet, they almost did not reach the guards.Vane’s eyes grew wide with pure, blind panic. He pointed a shaking finger at Caster. "Kill him right now! Erase him! Cut his head off! Break the connection!"
Chapter 419
Caster looked at Vane. Caster’s eyes narrowed. Suddenly, Caster saw past Vane’s angry words. He looked at the tight muscles in Vane’s jaw. He looked at the sweat on Liora’s forehead. He looked at how tightly the Archmages gripped their chairs.They were not angry. They were terrified.Caster realized the absolute truth. They did not care that he broke a law. They did not care about Erynd’s Crossing.They cared about the earthquake.When the giant black void and the Crown of Cinders had aligned with Caster at the Crossing, the power of that connection had shaken the entire world. The Council had felt that massive, impossible power.They were not afraid of what Caster had done. They were deeply, completely terrified of what had responded to him.They realized that Caster was connected to a god-like force that they could not control. If Caster was the anchor, then Caster was the most dangerous weapon in the world. And they wanted to bury the weapon so it could never be fired again."The
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