Chapter 63 : Into the Mountains

*Jared*

Draven’s Cryptex, the Sphere of Dreams, the Diadem of Nyx–three of the most coveted artifacts in the realm, all of them shrouded in mystery and lore. No one knew if the Sphere of Dreams or the Diadem of Nyx were real, the only mention of them coming from vague tales from the creation of our homeland.

But Draven’s Cryptex was real, very real. And Hestia, the Dark Witch, wanted nothing more than to prevent me from putting those given powers back into it somehow.

If we prevailed… I was throwing the fucking thing in the ocean. I’d travel to the Realm of Light with the woman I meant to make my wife and have her White Queen aunt toss it in the deepest trenches of the Northern seas.

For the first time in years, I felt like we were actually getting somewhere.

But my heart was heavy, my entire soul on fire with the idea of Eliza leading Abe and me into what sounded like certain danger. Abe and I could handle it. We were violent and skilled.

Eliza was not.