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So what is your magical staff do? I asked the sorcerer, alone with him in his workshop

once again. And the key that Bruchus so obsessed with?

Learning all the new information about how magic worked, using conduits to different dimensions,

had ignited something within me. My curiosity was now an itch which needed badly to be scratched.

I wanted answers, Danette. After months of being Xavier's apprentice, I'd finally learned

a couple of his secrets. And they were huge. I couldn't believe that he hadn't told me

until now that he had given up pieces of magical knowledge and his own abilities to train

his former apprentices. Five of them. Now they were all out there working with Bruchus.

His worst and first apprentice. Trying to bring down the all-world tree. And with it.

All of existence. We were sitting in Xavier's little workshop, Armory, in the basement of

his cramped old house. His daughter, my newly now ex-girlfriend, was just upstairs and

I was waiting for her to start hammering on the door, barging in to try and talk to me.

We had just broken up minutes before. A decision I had made after returning from the abyssal

dimension, which showed the potential unmaking of reality. Exactly what would happen to

Earth if I went along with the plans that she had been hinting at for the past couple

of weeks. I was realizing more and more by the second that it was the right decision to

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