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Chapter 418
The Golden Room was a massive, round chamber. The walls were made of white marble, decorated with pure gold lines that mapped the stars. In the center of the room, a large circular table floated in the air.Sitting in tall, floating chairs around the table were the leaders of the Tower. The High Council.There were twelve of them. They wore robes of pure, spotless white. They looked clean, powerful, and perfect.As Caster was pushed into the center of the room by the guards, the twelve Archmages stared down at him.The leader of the Council, Archmage Vane, leaned forward. Vane was a thin man with sharp, cold eyes and completely silver hair. He hated the dark. He believed the Tower was the only safe place in the world, and that the Council’s laws were perfect."Caster Spellbound," Vane said. His voice echoed loudly in the huge room. "You look like a man who has been buried in a grave and dug back up.""I feel like one, too," Caster said. He did not bow. He stood as tall as his tired le
Chapter 417
The sun was shining brightly on the First Ring of the Tower. The sky was a perfect, clear blue. The giant white stone walls of the city looked clean and strong.But Caster Spellbound did not feel the warmth of the sun. He only felt the freezing cold of the dark world he had just left.Caster walked slowly toward the Great Silver Doors of the Tower. His feet dragged on the white stone path. His gray robes were torn. They were stained with dark red blood and covered in thick, black dust. He looked like an old ghost walking into a house of the living.He was completely exhausted. His bones ached. His magical energy was very low. The long walk back from Erynd’s Crossing had taken everything out of him. He had left Kael Dorn at a secret safe house near the edge of the city. Kael was burning with a terrible fever. The dark ash mark on Kael’s right hand was spreading, poisoning him with the memory-magic of the Ash Plane. Caster had to find a way to heal him. But first, Caster had to face the
Chapter 416
Caster stared at Kael for a long moment. Then, very slowly, a tiny, sad smile touched Caster’s lips. It was the first time Kael had ever seen the old man smile."Then we have a lot of walking to do," Caster said.Caster walked over to where his leather satchel had fallen during the fight. He picked it up and brushed the dust off. He pulled out a large, heavy map made of old yellow paper.He unrolled the map on a large, flat piece of broken black glass.Kael walked over and looked down at the map. It was covered in lines and dots. It was the map of the Blackthorn Network.Erynd’s Crossing, the deepest root, was a large black circle at the bottom."We are here," Caster said, pointing a dirty finger at the bottom circle.He dragged his finger up a thick, dark line on the map. The line zigzagged through mountains and deep underground caves."The Warden is awake now," Caster said. "It knows what we are trying to do. It will not just wait for us to burn the next node. The Ash Plane will sta
Chapter 415
This time, Caster let Kael pull him. He took three steps back from the glowing edge of the tear.As soon as Caster moved away, the silver thread snapped.The giant structure inside the Ash Plane, the Crown of Cinders, suddenly stopped spinning perfectly. It wobbled, like a spinning top losing its balance.Without Caster’s direct alignment holding it steady, the massive weight of the Warden’s magic hit the broken node all at once.CRACK!The sound was louder than thunder. It hit them in the chest like a physical blow.The glowing red and purple edges of the tear suddenly folded inward.The world rushed to fix the hole.With a final, violent SNAP, the tear in the air vanished completely.It did not fade away slowly. It was there one second, and gone the next.The black glass dirt settled. The wind died instantly.Absolute silence returned to Erynd’s Crossing.Kael fell to his knees. He was exhausted. His body felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. His head pounded with a terrible heada
Chapter 414
Caster did not answer. He stepped right up to the edge of the tear. His toes touched the line where the black glass dirt met the backward, glowing air of the Ash Plane.Caster stared directly into the center of the giant black void.The Warden did not look down at Caster. It could not look. Instead, it aligned with him. It happened in a single heartbeat.Caster took a deep breath. Inside the Ash Plane, the giant Crown of Cinders suddenly stopped spinning. It paused for one second, matching the exact rhythm of Caster’s breathing.Caster exhaled. The Crown of Cinders started to spin again, perfectly in time with his breath.Caster shifted his weight from his left foot to his right foot. As he moved, the entire massive structure of the Warden tilted exactly three degrees to the right.Kael watched this happen from the ground. His mouth fell open."It is copying you," Kael said."No," Caster replied. His voice was strangely calm. The deep sadness was gone. It was replaced by a pure, heavy
Chapter 413
The glowing tear in the air did not close. It hung over the broken black stone, right in the middle of Erynd’s Crossing.Kael Dorn and Caster Spellbound sat in the sharp black glass dirt. They were bleeding. They were covered in thick gray ash. They breathed heavily, their chests moving up and down in the freezing cold air.Just a minute ago, the tear was a wild, violent mouth. It had tried to eat Kael. It had tried to suck him into the dark, backward world of the Ash Plane. It had pulled on him with the heavy gravity of his own sad memories.But now, the tear was completely still.The violent wind stopped blowing. The loud, terrible noise of breaking glass faded away.Everything became very, very quiet."Why did it stop?" Kael whispered. He held his right hand close to his chest. Under his skin, the dark ash mark in the shape of the tear slowly spun. It felt like a piece of cold ice buried in his flesh.Caster did not look at Kael. Caster kept his eyes locked on the glowing, red-edge
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