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“I will kill you,” Ketal declared.
He did not raise his voice, yet the intent rolled out of him like a tide. The will to kill pressed down on Necrobix with such weight that what little brush had survived the previous blast withered in an instant. In the same breath, the Tower Master flicked his sleeve and slipped backward, widening the gap between himself and the two combatants as he began to cast.
“Mirror World,” he chanted.
Space folded as a second sky blinked into being above a second earth, and the new horizon locked into place around Ketal and Necrobix as the Tower Master shunted their battleground aside. His first task was to bar escape and keep Necrobix from fleeing until Ketal arrived. Now he took up the second task. He would cage the spillover of the battle so it could not leak into the world and turn cities to powder.
“Whether this will hold, I cannot promise,” the Tower Master muttered, layering seal upon seal and stitching the seams.
Necrobix did not interfere. It spared not a word for the mage at the perimeter. It fixed its attention on Ketal as if nothing else existed.
“You were on the far side of the continent,” it said. Even its quiet felt like iron.
“I ran as fast as I could,” Ketal answered lightly.
Ke had sprinted from the continent’s other edge and arrived within minutes. Necrobix let out a dry, almost human sound that might have been a laugh.
“So flight is...
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