Blood On The Clocktower Grimoire Novels & Stories

He shifted his stance, his boots scraping against the grit on the floorboards with a sharp, dry rasp. I touched the geas on my wrist, feeling the silver ink beneath the skin turn into a line of blistering, liquid heat that threatened to char the bone. The tracking sigil was fully awake now, drawing directly from my personal pool of blood magic to signal my precise coordinate to the enforcers who were currently climbing the lower levels. My left hand was growing cold and unresponsive, the fingers stiffening into pale claws as the Council's leash began to restrict my arterial blood flow. "We need to clear the archives before they break the outer bolt of the lower corridor," I said, sweeping th

I grabbed a match from the mantle and struck it. “What are you doing?” Silas roared, lunging for me. I dropped the match. The gilt-edged pages, soaked in the dry rot of twenty years, caught instantly. The secrets of the Ares empire—the murders, the bribes, the “Conditioning”—erupted into a wall of orange flame. “I’m clearing the site,” I said. Silas tackled me, the weight of him slamming me into the mahogany desk. We hit the floor, a tangle of limbs and fury. I felt the detonator fly from his hand, skidding across the floor toward the vault.

But knowing something and acting on it are two different things. "I'm working on it," I say. "Work faster." Riven's tone is light, but her eyes are serious. "The Bloodmoon waits for no one. And from what I've heard, a Bloodwraith during the rise is not something you want to face unprepared." A chill runs down my spine despite the heat. "Have you seen one before? A Bloodwraith transformation?" She shakes her head. "But Torven has. He was in Ardorfell during the Crimson Purge fifteen years ago. Said he saw a Bloodwraith tear through an entire battalion of Dominion soldiers in less than ten minutes. Said it was like watching death itself given form."

The air itself seemed to stir around her—the archive responded, as if it recognized the blood thrumming in her veins. “This is everything ever written about us,” I said quietly, glancing down the rows of shelves. “Bloodlines, packs, inheritances. If there’s anything tied to you… its trace will be here.” I drew out the compass—an ancient relic that didn’t point north, but to the strength hidden in blood. The moment Nyra stepped closer, the needle began to tremble, then suddenly spun sharply, almost violently, and fixed itself toward a shadowed corner. There, bound in thick chains, rested a black tome. Upon its cover, a sigil glowed faintly silver: a crescent moon, three stars, cradled in wing

At the center of the cover lies a raised symbol: a drop of blood, intricately detailed, as if about to trickle down the cover, appearing almost alive. The clasp of the book is a masterpiece of brutality and symbolism. Made of heavy metal, it is adorned with tiny skulls and bones, reminders of the lethal power contained within the tome. The clasp seems to demand a blood pact to be opened, with a small blade embedded, ready to make the necessary cut. When I finally open the Bloodbound Codex, I feel the temperature around me drop abruptly, as though the very air had been sucked into the book. The atmosphere becomes denser, heavier, as if the essence of the book were absorbing the vitality aroun

It was incredibly difficult to discern that went on in that century old heart of hers. I stretched out and received it from her. "That's not all," she spun around, and grabbed a book off the table. She held it out to me again, and I didn't hesitate to take it from her hand. "As promised, I have given you the Crimson heart. And that..." She pointed at the weighty book in my hand. "That's a grimoire, containing research on the blood moon oath. If you go through it diligently, you might find a way to break it without any other kind of substitutions."

Back in the Tower The moonlight had dimmed to silver-gray. I stood near the archway, the wind cold against my face. In my hand was the small locket Drake had once given me. Inside was a single drop of dried blood, sealed beneath an ancient rune. His promise. His bond. The proof that my soul was already marked. I turned it between my fingers and let it rest against my heart. “Sleep well, little sister,” I whispered. “You’ll need your strength when the moon turns red.”

Already ahead of him. I pulled open the carved wooden cabinet near the fireplace. Inside, wrapped in velvet and silence, sat the old tools: five glass vials, each filled with blood thick as ink; a polished obsidian dagger; and an iron-bound grimoire so old, the leather cover hummed with dormant magic. “Help me clear the room,” I said.

The result isn’t gratifying, it only burns my fury hotter that once again, I’ve fallen for another clone of his. This time, he appears above me in the foyer space, long silver-blonde hair floating about him and his cunning crystalline blue orbs debase me from that smug elevation. He sneers, “You’ve inherited their filthy blood. Blood-thirsty curs. I have the Grimoire now, and you will never be able to defeat me.”

However, I couldn't and sighed. “I can’t tell you everything,” I said. "But I need to know who his witch is. It’s important.” She stared at me for a long moment, her expression unreadable. “Anderson…” “Cara, please,” I said, my voice harder now. “Just tell me what you know.” Last night, I was trying to figure out how to remove the ring from Sarah’s finger when I suddenly remembered an old grimoire I had come across years ago. The grimoire detailed blood magic and binding rituals.