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Chapter 629
Caster had to suffer as a mortal. He had to keep his disguise. He forced the golden seed back down into the dark. He locked the box in his mind. The physical pain of holding the power back made him dizzy. He coughed, tasting blood. "Fine," Caster said softly, lowering his head. "Do it your way, Lieutenant."Vance turned back to the wall and kept shooting. Caster turned to Sikoa. "Cover me," Caster whispered. "What are you doing?" Sikoa asked, her one good eye narrowing. "If the foolish Lieutenant will not turn the machine off," Caster said, gripping his wooden stick. "I am going to climb up there and break it with my bare hands."Before Sikoa could stop him, Caster ran out from behind the safety of the sandbags. He ran into the open mud. He dodged a screaming red beam from a diving drone. The red magic hit a puddle next to his boot, instantly turning the water into sharp, bloody ice. Caster slipped, but he caught himself on the metal base of the Relay Tower. He grabbed the rungs
Chapter 628
The drone exploded into a cloud of sharp metal pieces and burning red fire. The trapped soul inside the red crystal let out a high, tragic, wailing scream as it died completely. "Keep shooting!" Vance yelled. But there were too many drones. The swarm swooped down. They moved with terrifying, unnatural speed. They did not fly in straight lines. They darted left and right like angry insects. The drones opened their metal jaws. Instead of shooting bullets, the drones spit thin, highly concentrated beams of dark red energy. Hiss! A red beam hit the mud exactly two feet in front of the sandbags. The mud instantly boiled. It bubbled and twisted. A sharp, jagged spike of bloody red bone shot up from the dirt. The corrupted planar energy mutated the earth on contact. "Take cover!" Sikoa yelled. She pushed Caster’s head down just as a red beam shot over them. The red beam hit a young soldier standing next to Caster. The boy screamed. But the blue Resonant Shard on his chest flared t
Chapter 627
The mud was thick, cold, and sticky. It grabbed Caster Spellbound’s heavy black boots and tried to pull him down. All around him, the world was screaming. The massive, flat land of the Rift Plains had turned into a total nightmare. The sky above was split in two. Behind Caster, the sky glowed with the bright, sharp blue light of the Glassview Army. In front of him, the sky was a sick, bloody red, lit up by the massive, walking machine called the Crimson Engine. "Keep moving, old man!" Sikoa yelled. She grabbed the collar of Caster’s heavy gray jacket and pulled him forward. They ran through the camp. Tents were on fire. Young Glassview soldiers were running in every direction, completely panicked. The red energy beams from the Crimson Alliance had hit the front lines, turning the earth into jagged, sharp spikes of bloody bone. Caster coughed. The air smelled like burning flesh, melted iron, and pure panic. He held onto his broken wooden walking stick tightly. He wore the gray un
Chapter 626
Caster grabbed a heavy, flat iron wrench. He grabbed a piece of rough flint stone from his bag. He scooped a tiny bit of the silver paste onto the end of a thin brass wire. He held the brass wire directly over the hissing crack in the purple glass. He took a deep breath. Clack. Caster struck the iron wrench against the flint stone directly over the paste. A bright, hot spark of normal, physical fire flew from the stones. The spark hit the silver paste. Instantly, Caster jammed the hot, sparking silver paste directly into the crack on the purple glass. The dark magic screamed. SKREEEE! The purple light flashed blindly. Caster held his bare thumb directly over the hot silver paste, pressing it hard into the crack. The hot metal burned his skin terribly. The smell of burning flesh filled the air. Caster did not pull his hand away. He pushed with all his physical strength, holding the pressure inside the glass. For three agonizing seconds, the battery shook violently. It was fi
Chapter 625
Caster reached into his tool bag. He pulled out a small brass wrench. He did not use magic. He used simple, smart alchemy. He tightened the small brass housing around the crystal. He rubbed a piece of clean cloth over the glass to clear away the mud. The crystal stopped flickering. It began to pulse with a steady, warm blue light. Thump. Thump. Thump. It matched the boy’s heartbeat perfectly. "Thank you, sir," the boy whispered, hugging the blue crystal to his chest. "My name is Toby. I just want to go back to my mother’s farm.""I know, Toby," Caster said gently. He patted the boy’s muddy shoulder. "Be brave."Caster stood up. He moved to the next soldier. Then the next. For three hours, Caster worked in the mud. He fixed broken straps. He cleaned dirty crystals. He tightened loose bolts. He hated every single second of it. He was helping the war machine. He was preparing these boys to go out and kill other boys. His struggle tore at his mind. He wanted to scream. He wanted to us
Chapter 624
An hour later, the rain finally stopped. Caster Spellbound sat in the driver’s seat of the heavy gray military truck. He hated driving. The machine was loud, and the steering wheel was heavy. He was no longer wearing his simple brown cloak. He was wearing the uniform of a dead man. He wore thick, dark gray canvas pants. He wore heavy black leather boots. He wore a thick, gray waterproof jacket. On his head, he wore a wide steel helmet pulled very low over his eyes to hide his face. The jacket was too big for him. It hung loosely on his frail, old body. On the shoulder of the jacket, there was a patch that read: ARCANE LOGISTICS CORPS. Sikoa sat in the passenger seat next to him. She also wore a stolen gray uniform. She had hidden her black eye-patch under a heavy pair of military goggles. She kept a heavy magical rifle resting on her lap. "I cannot believe we are doing this," Sikoa muttered. She looked at the forged deployment papers resting on the dashboard. "If they check thes
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