Unexpected.

Once again, Loki entered the familiar golden doors in the middle of the night and strolled around the Room of convenience until he came across the book that he had read earlier.

'Horrors of the Dark.'

A book bound in green leather with a hardcover on which the title was engraved in golden lettering.

Loki pulled the book out to himself and sat down on the chair with his legs on the table to read relaxedly.

*Tink*

"Hmm…? Ah. Tea. Nice." Loki held the book in one hand after opening it to the right page and the teacup with the other while slowly taking sips from it.

Leaving it to hang in the air to give his hands some rest, Loki began reading through the book from where he had stopped earlier.

Looking at the 'Note from the Author' section that had creeped him out, Loki turned the pages to see if that was the end of the note and after confirming it was, he turned to the next page.

'Chapter 1 : Why Am I Making Wands.'

'With the advent of Magic that Rowena will unleash upon the world, humans will try to manipulate their spirituality to perform the various magics that True Gods will be able to bestow to the world.'

"...What?"

Loki's eyes froze again as he read the paragraph once again.

"What does it mean by 'magics that True Gods will bestow on the world'?"

Loki stared hard at the sentence trying to think up theories to understand the meaning of the sentence but he stopped thinking after a while since he hoped the book would answer the question for him.

So he read further.

'Given how the barrier keeping 'Them' out will collapse in another few centuries, I hope to empower humans with the ability to defend themselves as Mr. Error did for us.'

'And making wands that use materials from magical species of animals is a crucial step in that direction since if I am able to pull out the quality of instinctive control over spirituality that magical animals have and give it to the humans-'

'-they should become a formidable force since lack of control will no longer be an issue and they won't have to contend with the madness of becoming a Beyonder.'

'A force that not even 'Their' followers can hold back.'

"*sigh*"

Loki placed the book on the table, took a sip of tea and rubbed his eyes.

"'Barrier keeping 'Them' out will collapse in another few centuries.' does this mean that there's no barrier keeping the outer gods out of the planet?"

"But everything seems too ordinary for such a calamitic event to have happened."

Loki pondered over the issue for a while until a thought surfaced.

"Didn't 'Adam' while speaking with 'Her' in the tunnel say something along the lines of 'Her' being safe only because she remains on no side?"

"Was he talking about keeping the outer gods' influence out of the planet? Is he protecting the planet by making something similar to a barrier?"

"...no that seems too far-fetched. When I saw him, both as a spirit under the whomping willow and as a student in his office, he definitely had a divine aura around him, but godly? No."

"I'm pretty sure 'He' is 'just' a King of Angels or a normal Angel."

Loki's potion suddenly digested by ten per cent bringing him up to Ninety Two per cent.

'....moving on.'

"So someone else is keeping the planet protected from 'Their' influence? But who? And most importantly…how?"

Loki's fingers drummed the table as he became lost in thought, wondering about any other famous figures in the History of the magical world that might fit the role of a divine being that was protecting the planet.

"It could be Mer-"

'Damn, that was close.'

Loki performed the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth ritual and slipped into the Sefirah Castle where he continued contemplating the mysterious information he had just uncovered.

"So it could be Merlin who's a deity and is protecting the entire planet?"

"What pathway could even achieve such a result?"

"If all the founders are sealed in the Room of Convenience, and Salazar was only freed recently, which gods is he partnering with to stop the outer gods?"

Loki felt like he was hanging by a cliff with the question, like he was striking the crux of the matter and he just had to listen to it in the right way to figure everything out.

"Which gods could he be partnering with…? Zeus could be the god of lightning? But that's still just one god from the Greek pantheon, maybe there are more gods like the Norse ones and such that I don't know about, yet?"

"But where are their temples? Why aren't there any temples for them to maintain their sanity!?"

"Jesus has a church! But why don't any of the other 'Gods' have one?"

Loki frowned, deep in thought as a stray thought came to him.

"Perhaps the Gods are using magic to maintain the barrier? And they're also maintaining their sanity somehow with its help? Maybe it makes it safer and is the more preferred option?"

"Given how Occlumency is possible, maybe there are better ways to maintain sanity using it somehow?"

"But there are still several mad gods…so it is likely that magic isn't the solution if there are restrictions on who's using it."

"Or…is it some Great Old One?"

"Maybe Merlin along with other True Gods are secretly Great Old Ones and have accommodated their Sefirot? Which is why they're able to fight off the outer gods."

"But which pathway could they be from if they've accommodated the corresponding Sefirot?"

"Not the Sefirah Castle since I have that. Probably not River of Eternal Darkness since Salazar is likely the true god of the Darkness pathway. Not the Brood Hive since that's 'Her's' and not the Tenebrous World and the Nation of Disorder since that belongs to Outer Deities too."

"That leaves the Chaos Sea, City of Calamity, Knowledge Moor and the Key of Light."

"But those many Great Old Ones…the world would've probably been much different if that was the case…it is not likely to be true."

"Hmm…" Loki struggled to think up any more without shooting off into random conspiracy theories without facts.

Exiting the Sefirah Castle, Loki went back to reading the book that Salazar had written.

'Chapter 2 : Aim'

'I aim to make a wand like Mr. Error's. It was perfectly what a wand should be, a weapon capable of perfectly killing the enemies of its owners.'

'I have chosen to use the bone of a Dementor because that is what Mr. Error's wand was made out of, and I can't help but want to imitate it.'

"..."

Loki slumped back into his chair.

His eyes trembled as he looked at the book in front of him and then back at his wand.

'Didn't Ollivander's sell it?'

'...'

But Loki knew he felt otherwise, his brain had already considered a solution. Ollivanders were perhaps the first people to learn the process of wand-making under Salazar.

Right then, his potion digested by another five per cent, bringing him to a total of ninety-seven per cent.

'Today is not a good day for my heart.'

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