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Chapter 489
Outside in the dark, Caster closed his eyes. He felt a hot tear slide down his dirty cheek.The words hurt worse than a knife. They hurt worse than the burning pain of losing his magic.He had given up his magical core for that little boy. He had traded his own soul to stop the city from exploding. He had pulled the toxic magic into himself so that father and son could live to see another morning.And they hated him. They thought he was the devil.The city he had loved, the city he had protected with his own life, was hunting him like a sick animal.Every act of survival, every time he hid in the shadows, felt like a terrible confirmation of the lie. The Council told the people he was a monster hiding in the dark. And here he was, hiding in the dark, scared and dirty. He felt like he was becoming the exact thing they said he was.Lysane saw the tears on his face. She heard the father’s words through the broken window.She reached out and put her hand gently on Caster’s arm."Do not li
Chapter 488
The trap had been perfect. Just a few hours ago, Caster Spellbound and Archmage Lysane were standing outside a small wooden tavern, three hundred miles away from the capital city. They thought they were safe. But the wanted poster on the tavern door was not just a piece of paper. It was a magical snare.When the drawn eyes on the poster turned bright red and screamed, a flash of violent green light exploded. The magic grabbed them. It was a forced teleportation spell.The High Council did not want to send soldiers all the way to the outer villages to catch the Rogue Vector. They wanted the magic to drag Caster straight back to the capital. They wanted to drop him right into the middle of the Great Square so they could execute him in front of everyone.But the capital city was broken. The deep leylines were damaged.Because the magic in the earth was sick, the teleportation spell misfired.Caster and Lysane did not land in the Great Square. They crashed hard into the cold, wet dirt of
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
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