Book Three: Chapter 90

“That’s... that’s crazy!”

“Worse yet, I also believe that she intended to use the secret of the house to control the being - eventually.” Ratu tucked the key back into her kimono. “That being said, this is just a theory. Emily brought me many ancient texts under the guise that I was perfecting my craft. Instead, I was researching the grim possibility that she was about to make a huge mistake. Months before her death, I had learned how to destroy and harvest the magic from the final object. Instead, I encased it beneath a lake of ice.”

“If you know how to destroy it, then why do you need the goggles?”

Ratu pursed her lips, deep in thought. “This... artifact is extremely dangerous. As I mentioned, the Ancient Ones are extremely powerful, but not just in terms of strength. They reside in a plane that is devoid of time and space. The sheer act of interacting with such a creature can destroy the mind, and as such, the object I need to destroy is very devious. Imagine tr