After so many hours that Elysif got bored and Lily fell asleep, Compton finally began shouting like a madman with a voice of glee. His shouts could have probably been heard above ground but we all knew that no one above cared enough to investigate his joyous cries. Since there was no one else to see what he was shouting about, I ended up checking on him.

“What’s up? Something good, or bad?” I asked as I entered the room. Compton was wearing a large smile upon his face that could only be described as pure joy.

“Better than good. How much do you know about Greek mythology?” Compton asked.

“A fair amount. I guess.” I replied with an unsure tone.

“Well, you know about the three main ones. Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon, right?” Compton asked.

“Yeah… though, not much.” I replied.

“To put it simply, they had a dad. And you know how we saw Medea attempt to summon you?”

“Yes?”

“Well that ritual used to be a special ritual used to create more Elder Ones. It seems that Tim placed a ton of Elder Ones all around but they got lonely so they were given a ritual to allow them to make more of them. The problem was that it required sacrifices. The more sacrifices, the more powerful that they were.” Compton explained.

“So it’s like a gacha game where the in-game currency is human lives?” I replied jokingly.

“I don’t know what half of that means. Anyways, it seems that some of the summoned Elder Ones didn’t like being the creation of mass genocide so the Three main God’s at the time fought their dad, Kronos and trapped him underground. Hades became the guardian of Kronos and basically the keeper of the dead. However, the big three wanted more Elder Ones to help them out so the people that worshipped them would bring criminals in which they would use for the ritual so that they could make more.” Compton continued to explain.

“Okay, now what does this have to do with Merlin?” I asked impatiently.

“I’m gettin to it. Basically, after a while, Zeus and a few of the other Elder Ones decided that they wanted to try it the human way and ended up with some okay children that became Elder Ones or demigods. Though, some… didn’t. They became what we call monsters. The Greek pantheon wasn’t the only ones doing this though. This happened all over the world. Somewhere along the lines, some humans saw the Elder One summoning ritual and tried to emulate it. However, it only let them summon the deceased. Thus, leading to necromancy. Only some of their texts survived and were placed in the library of Alexandria which, as we already know, was burned down… except for a few texts that were saved by Reubin Reuben.” Compton said as he went on and on.

“Get to the point already!” I said with my patience running thin.

“Alright, to simplify this. Merlin shouldn’t have the correct ritual. If he received it from Ruebin Reuben’s collection who stole it from the library then it’s a necromancy ritual. Using it to bring out an Elder One may be impossible to begin with.” Compton said, which led me to being even more confused than I already was.

“Explain it to me like I’m stupid please. This is making my head hurt.” I said as I held my head.

“That won’t be too difficult but I’ll try. We need to steal the book from Reubin Reuben and alter it so that it backfires.” Compton finally said.

“Sounds difficult. Plus, we have no clue where he might be until the 1880’s. Is there a back up idea?” I asked.

“Well, we could try talking with an Elder One?” Compton offered with a face that told me I just killed his dreams or something similar... Like his dog.

“Do you know where one is?” I asked.

“Kronos may still be trapped in Tartarus. We could check there?”

“Okay, where is Tartarus?”

“No clue. Maybe that informant could find it for us?”

“That is possible. Then we could time travel a few years into the future and he may have found it by then.”

“Sounds like a plan. Though, I wish we had more leads than this. In fact, this is a far stretch that I barely pieced together so I may be wrong.” Compton said with a sigh.

“Hey, it’s better than nothing.” I replied.