After taking a deep breath, Gerald slowly began flipping through the pages, making sure to be particularly gentle for fear that the thousand-year-old book would accidentally turn to dust.

To his dismay, however, he couldn’t understand what was written in it at all! At most, he was able to gather—based on the crude sketches on a few of the pages—that the book was detailing some sort of sacrificial ritual, not unlike what he had seen on the sea map back then.

Carefully—and slightly excitedly—c