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CHAPTER 299
Caster stood in the pale light of the broken sub-plane, breathing slowly as the last tremors faded from the cracked crystal core. Dust floated in the air around him like drifting stars, glowing with faint blue shimmer. He felt the shard in his hand vibrate, a soft pulse that matched his heartbeat, as if the Skell essence inside it recognized him as its carrier.The air was cold. Not a natural cold, but the kind that came from places where reality had weakened and let emptiness seep through.He lifted the shard toward the faint sky. Its blue glow spread through his fingers in gentle waves, warm at first, then sharp, like it was trying to speak through light alone.“What are you hiding now,” Caster whispered.There was no answer, but the shard hummed again. He closed his eyes and let his mana flow slowly into it. His mana, once smooth, now carried rough edges. It felt heavier, darker, filled with Skell’s unstable echo. As it poured into the shard, the fragment brightened. Sigils unwo
CHAPTER 298
Caster opened his eyes to a soft, pale light that did not belong to any real sky. It shimmered like thin silk stretched over the horizon, wavering whenever he blinked. His body lay on cold ground, but the ground itself did not feel solid. It felt like woven layers of broken stone and dreams, ready to fall apart at the slightest wrong movement.For a long moment, he could not breathe. His chest rose and fell with a sharp, uneven rhythm. Crystalline veins glimmered along his arms and neck, glowing faintly with Skell’s unstable essence. Every pulse of his heart sent tiny waves of light through those veins, spreading across his skin like threads of a fractured star.He slowly pushed himself up, groaning softly at the weight inside his body. “This place, is this a real plane?” he muttered.His voice echoed, but the echo returned too slowly, almost like it had to travel across another dimension before reaching back to him. When he stood, the ground shifted under his feet, as if unsure ho
CHAPTER 297
The land surrounding the collapsed Skell Rift lay silent under a sky that had forgotten its color. The clouds were pale gray slabs, unmoving and heavy, as if they were carved from old bone. Every breeze carried a faint metallic taste, like the air had been scraped across broken glass. All around, the ruins of old outposts leaned at strange angles, their shadows stretching too far, their stones humming with leftover mana. And then the storms began.Thin cracks of violet lightning scratched through the air, flickering in quick bursts that left a sharp ringing sound behind. They crawled over the shattered ground like living veins, searching for a place to settle. At the heart of the wasteland, where the Skell Rift had closed only days earlier, spirals of dust curled upward like dying breaths.A lone figure stepped into that desolate field.They wore a long, bone-white cloak that brushed the ground without making a sound. Their face was hidden behind a mask shaped like a smooth, expre
CHAPTER 296
The skies above Cloud Tower rang with the sound of tolling bells. Their deep, rolling echoes shook the stone bridges and the glass walkways, sending flocks of silver birds rising in waves. Students rushed out of lecture halls, robes fluttering behind them as they leaned over railings to peer down at the central courtyard far below. The air shimmered with charged mana, bright enough to make sparks dance along the tower walls.Ardis Valen had returned.Word had already spread across the Tower before he even crossed the outer ward. Messenger glyphs pulsed through the halls, repeating the same announcement again and again. “Arch-Seeker Ardis returns from the Skell Operation.” “Mission success.” “Plane stabilized.” “Traitor purged.”Not one of them mentioned Caster Spellbound by name. Not one of them dared.Ardis walked across the bridge that stretched from the outer landing platform to the great hall entrance. His boots touched the stone with slow, steady steps, as if every movement w
CHAPTER 295
The Void Corridors were quiet. Too quiet. Caster felt the silence press against his ears as he walked slowly between Ardis and Lyra. The mist swirled beneath their feet with each step, turning to faint stone when they touched the ground, then fading again as they passed. The air carried no wind, no warmth, no smell. Only the faint echo of distant space murmured faintly like a sleeping storm.Caster’s body was weak. Each breath felt heavy, and every step took more effort than the last. The glow in his arms had dimmed, but the cracks in his skin remained. They pulsed with slow, gentle light, reminders of the essence sealed inside the crystal that now floated behind them within the containment sigil.Ardis walked ahead with a hard expression, but there was something different about him now. The proud arrogance was gone. The sharp coldness had softened. He looked like a man carrying a heavy weight he did not know how to set down.Lyra stayed next to Caster. She did not speak much. Ever
CHAPTER 294
The first thing Caster felt was cold. Not a natural cold, not the kind that came from snow or winter air, but a hollow cold, a silence that reached into his bones. The kind of cold that came from empty space, the kind that had never known sunlight or warmth. The ground beneath him felt like solid mist, too soft to trust, but too firm to fall through.He opened his eyes slowly, blinking through the pain that pulsed behind them. The world around him was made of shifting shadows, narrow corridors of dark fog that twisted into long tunnels stretching far beyond sight. The colors were muted, washed out, and the light seemed to come from nowhere.He whispered softly, “Where am I?”His voice drifted away as if swallowed by endless halls.Ardis stood a few steps away, breathing heavily as he steadied himself on one knee. His armor was cracked in several places. Faint sparks flickered between the broken plates. Lyra knelt beside him, her face pale, her eyes still full of shock from their na
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