Page 87 of Darkening Truth
“Well, that makes sense,” I say as I move over to it and move the painting out of the way.
“Please tell me that you know how to get into that,” Zev mutters as he looks at the complicated door.
I nod, “Yeah, it’s not actually locked. He’s got so many dangerous and deadly spells layered over the top of it, that no one could touch it anyway.”
Reaching out with my magic, I easily slice through all of the spells and then reach my hand out, pulling the door to the safe open and revealing the room behind.
It’s not as big as Hades' safe at his castle, but it is big.
“I wonder how much of this stuff has been stolen?” Reaper asks curiously as we move inside to search for the book.
“Most of it probably,” I reply.
“Well, at least the room isn’t as big as the library,” Kill mutters as we spread out through the room to search for the book.
“Thank fuck for that,” Loki grins.
“Considering this is all supposed to be things that are important to him, he didn’t exactly keep the place in good shape,” Reaper frowns as he looks around at what can only be described as an unorganised mess.
“I found it!” Storm exclaims.
He holds up a book that I have to admit looks like a storybook.
“Well, it doesn’t look that promising,” Zev says with a frown. “It certainly doesn’t look like it’s going to be able to tell us how to get into a forgotten realm.”
“No, it really doesn’t,” Storm says as he turns the book over in his hands. “Come on, let’s get it back to the academy. We can go over it all then, and see if it does have any interesting information in it for us.”
“I find it difficult to believe that Ignatius would go to the trouble of telling us about a book that can save their realm and stop the balance from being thrown off, only for it to turn out to be a storybook,” Zev replies.
“Agreed,” Reaper nods.
“He did tell us that most of the information in the book was wrong,” I point out.
“To be honest, it’s a really good way of making sure that information doesn’t get into the wrong hands,” Rival adds thoughtfully. “You disguise it in a book that looks like a children’s book.”
“Good point,” Kill agrees.
“Let’s head back to the academy. I want to see what’s in it. Hopefully, we can get into this realm fairly easily with the information in the book,” Mayhem suggests.
“That would be nice,” I grin. “Something tells me that it’s probably not going to turn out that way though. Is everyone holding on?”
They all confirm that they are, and I open the Void, stepping inside and finding myself grateful that I’ve left that house for hopefully the last time. I would honestly be perfectly happy if the whole place burned to the ground,except for maybe the library. I’m sure that there are a lot of books in there that are priceless, and it would be a shame for them to burn.
Plus, I think Rival would have a coronary.
When I pull up the door to take us into our dorm room at the academy, something feels slightly off about it.
Not like it’s been tampered with though, and I can’t quite put my finger on why it feels so strange. By the time I’ve noticed that there is something wrong with the door, it’s too late, and we’re all walking through it.
“Well, that explains why the door felt weird,” I mutter as I look around.
“You mean you didn’t mean to bring us all here?” Storm asks, and an edge to his voice as he looks around at the hallway that we’re standing in.
“We’re in the academy, right?” Loki asks, his eyebrows dipping down into a frown.
Kill nods, “Yeah, we are. Maybe we stepped through the wrong door?”
I shake my head, “Not possible. I created it to go to the dorm room.”
