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Today was a day of disappointment. I lost three of my apprentices trying to extract a sample from the living stone wall. The spell I used to attempt the extraction seemed to be working fine. The face I have come to call the ward of Brell started to melt away as my body became more powerful. But then I heard something shout in my mind to stop or pay the price. Just at that moment an explosion of dirt came from the wall and sent my nearby apprentices hurtling backwards. The force of the blast killed them on contact, I can still hear the crunch of bone that echoed throughout the chamber when their bodies collided with an adjacent wall.