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Chapter 487
The Herald smiled a cold, satisfied smile. Vane’s plan was working perfectly."He is no longer a man!" the Herald shouted over the angry crowd. "He is stripped of his name! He is designated as the Rogue Vector! He carries the infection of the dark ash in his blood!"The Twin Moons soldiers hit the bottom of their heavy spears against the stone street. CLANG. CLANG. CLANG."A Holy Crusade is declared!" the Herald announced. "The Twin Moons Consortium will hunt the Rogue Vector to the ends of the earth! Anyone who hides him, anyone who helps him, and anyone who speaks his old name will be executed for treason!"Toma pulled Finn and Elara back into his bakery. He shut the wooden door and locked it tight. He looked out the small window.The crowd was cheering for the soldiers. The people who had been saved by Caster were now cheering for his death."Why are they doing this?" Finn cried, wiping his tears. "He gave up his magic for us. I saw his face turn black. He took the pain so we could
Chapter 486
General Corin sat back in his wooden chair. He thought about it. If he agreed, he would gain massive political power. His army would become the official law of the land. It was a deal too good to pass up. The truth did not matter. Only power mattered."We have a deal, Vane," General Corin said. He held out his heavy metal hand.Vane shook it. The alliance was made in the dark, built on top of a mountain of lies."But we do not call him Archmage Caster Spellbound anymore," Corin said, his voice hard. "A name makes him sound like a man. A name makes people pity him. If we are going to hunt him, we must make him sound like a disease.""Agreed," Vane said, nodding quickly. "He is stripped of all his titles. He is no longer a mage of the Tower.""From now on," Corin announced, "he is the Rogue Vector. He is a walking infection. We will tell the people that if they go near him, the ash will return and eat them.""And Archmage Lysane?" Liora whispered nervously. "She was with him. She ran a
Chapter 485
The Sage Tower was dead. Just one day ago, it was a beautiful white spire that reached into the clouds. It was the proud symbol of the High Council. Now, the white marble shell had fallen off. Only the ugly, twisted black iron skeleton remained. It looked like a broken, burned tree standing in the middle of a ruined city.The sun was shining. The dark ash had stopped falling. But the capital city was not happy. The streets were full of broken stone, crushed carts, and the empty clothes of the people who had been eaten by the dark magic.Archmage Vane survived the fall.He did not survive because he was brave. He survived because he hid in a deep, reinforced stone room under the Golden Room when the Tower started to split.Now, Vane sat at a long wooden table. The table was not floating. It was an ordinary table inside a large, dirty military tent set up in the First Ring.Vane looked terrible. His perfect white robes were torn and covered in brown dirt. His silver hair was wild. His
Chapter 484
Caster did not open his eyes. But he let out a long, slow groan.Lysane had a rare gift, even though she had forgotten how to use it. She could still feel the very edges of magic in the air.She closed her eyes and reached out with her senses, trying to feel the old man’s magical aura. She wanted to see if he was hurt inside.What she felt made her gasp softly.In a normal mage, the magical core feels like a warm, buzzing hive of bright blue bees. Even a weak mage has a steady, humming light inside their chest.When Lysane felt Caster’s chest, she did not feel a buzzing hive. She did not feel a bright blue light. She did not feel the heavy, pitch-black diamond of the Ash Plane.She felt almost nothing.Deep inside Caster’s chest, where his great, powerful magic used to live, there was only a vast, empty space. It felt like a massive fireplace after the fire has completely burned out.There was no flame. There was no heat.At the very bottom of the empty fireplace, there were just a fe
Chapter 483
It was a pain that words could not describe. It was not a physical fire burning Caster’s skin. It was a structural fire burning the very center of who he was.Every single Tower mage has a magical structure inside them. It is the framework that allows them to touch mana, cast spells, and feel the energy of the world. It is a part of their body, just like a heart or a lung.Caster felt that magical structure catch on fire."Ahhhhh!" Caster screamed.It was the loudest, most painful scream he had ever made. He dropped his hands. He fell to his knees on the cracked blue stone of the Observatory floor.He grabbed his chest, tearing at his dirty gray robes.He could feel the black diamond core inside him—the core he had forged from the Ash Plane—shattering into a million pieces of hot dust. The pale, inverted white fire that had surrounded his body suddenly went out.His skin turned from pitch-black back to its normal, pale, wrinkled human color.The pain was absolute. It was the feeling o
Chapter 482
The giant, spinning wheel of light hovered high above the broken world. It was the Runic Inversion Sigil. It was the impossible magic. Caster Spellbound pushed both of his burning hands forward. He poured every drop of his power into the massive spell. The sigil was made of pitch-black darkness, pale gray ash, and bright, pure starlight. It spun so fast that it hummed with a loud, beautiful sound.Down below, the capital city was trapped in a nightmare. The wave of deadly decay was rushing through the streets. The heavy, dark consequence of the Ash Warden was ready to erase everything."Now!" Caster roared. His voice was not human. It was the loud, grinding voice of a god.He triggered the Inversion Sigil.The spinning wheel of light flashed. It did not shoot a beam of fire. It did not create a hard wall. It released a massive, invisible wave of pure, reversed energy. It was a wave of healing, a wave of release, a wave of life.The invisible wave washed down the mountain. It hit the
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