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A powerful energy reverberated against his palm, sending him backwards.
He looked up to the sewer’s ceiling.
So the wall that separated the two zones of the city must linger high above them here.
He materialized the knife he’d temporarily rented from the artifacts merchant in Hawker’s Alley.
He stabbed the knife into the invisible wall of energy.
CRACK!
There was the sound of glass shattering without there being any glass in sight.
“Did it work?” asked Casey.
Max placed his hand forward and felt no pushback from the space ahead of him.
“Looks like it,” he said.
He took a step forward, leaving the tower-zone behind and illegally entering the outer-rim.
70
Max and Casey continued through the sewers after breaking through the mana ward separating the two zones of the city.
Ostensibly, nothing had changed after the ward. The sewer was a sewer just like it had been prior to the magic ward they had broken through, and yet, Max felt his heart beat a little faster.
“I can’t believe I’ve crossed over the wall,” said Casey, biting her nails as they walked through the underground passage.
Max expected Casey to become more nervous once they crossed the wall, but he was surprised at his own rising anxiety. He was someone who had now lived on both sides of the wall, in both areas of the city that made up Zestiris, but even as someone who had crossed the boundaries between the zones more than once, he still felt the gravity of doing so once more.
They continued further until they found another set of ladders leading up top.
The librarian girl had known a lot more specifics of the subterranean world of the tower-zone than that of the outer-rim, so it was up to them to guess when to emerge in the other zone of the city.
“It’s going to be a risk wherever we emerge,” said Max, “so we might as well try here.”
“Lead the way,” said Casey.
Max grabbed hold of the ladder and pulled himself up.
He eventually got to a sewer grate and had to twist a handle to loosen it so he could push it up.
Max quickly peeked up into the streets and sighed with relief when he saw the tunnel emerged in a random empty alleyway.
He quickly pulled himself into the alley and then helped Casey by grabbing her hand and pulling her up.
He put the sewer grate back where it was.
“We have to remember this alley,” said Max. “It’s our route back to the tower-zone.”
Casey nodded and looked around.
“This is the outer-rim, huh?” said Casey. “Looks pretty similar to the tower-zone.”
“It’s pretty much identical,” said Max. “Well, except for all the magic, but that’s pretty much it.”
They stepped out of the alleyway into broad daylight. The giant wall of Zestiris loomed in front of them.
“This is so weird,” said Casey.