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A harsh grinding roar filled the world as everything turned against him. Sand, air, and Myst, all of which had been fixed in place by the Tower Master’s spell, now moved as one. Every element of that frozen world treated Ketal as a foreign substance, something that did not belong in the fixed result, and converged to drive him out.
Ketal laughed and answered their hostility with excitement. He stomped down hard. Sand shattered beneath his heel. He swung his fist, and the air that had been rigid as crystal broke apart and scattered. He shook his body, and the Myst that clung to him like sticky tar was forced away.
Even so, it was not easy. Not even someone with Ketal’s overwhelming strength could brush aside the attacks of a world that had been fixed into place. The hostility of that magic was absolute.
To Ketal, that made it all the more enjoyable. He laughed, and his laughter edged toward madness.
“Ha… ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!”
The mirth bursting out of him pulled Aura from his core. It rushed to his axe and wrapped around the weapon in a dense, violent layer.
He swung, and the impact rang out like a bell tolling at the end of the world. Ketal’s power collided head-on with the fixed world, and Myst shattered as the sand broke apart and scattered into dust.
The Tower Master groaned. The bones that made up his body rattled with a sinister sound as hairline fractures spread through them. The Eleventh-Class magic that fixed the world in place had been a monumental achievement. He had...



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