Chapter 304.2
Eventually, the older woman closed her eyes. A look of calm washed over her before she decided to open them again. Everything in her mind had seemed to fall into place, like all the cogs in her clock were right where they belonged.
“Jin.”
“Yes?”
“20 years ago,” Alber said, “a magic similar to the kind that summoned the larks was performed. And you were involved in it.”
Eugene frowned. “Sorry?” she asked. “But you said that the magic was sealed.”
“It was.”
“You said that it wasn’t complete… was that the magic that you almost finished?”
“No.” Alber shook her head. “There’s barely any record of the magic that I created. What I sealed was the ancient magic piece that had already been sealed, that’s what people know about.” She sighed. “Now I understand why I couldn’t trace Mara. It was hiding itself with magic. I think it took the sealed magic that my tribe had been protecting.” She had thought it was strange, but she didn’t know why.
Whenever she looked into the future, she would use different variations of events so that she could uncover different timelines and possibilities. In order to do so, she had to experiment with her magic endlessly and she would often need documents to support what she was doing.