"The notes and journals they've recovered from the ruins are... fragmentary. Deliberately obscured in places. But the working theory is that he wanted to create what he called a 'new order of existence'—a reality where magic worked differently, where certain limitations didn't apply, and where he would essentially have god-like control over the fundamental forces of creation."
"That's insane," Jennifer said flatly.
"Yes," Veronica agreed.
"But it was also terrifyingly close to being possible. The researchers believe that if Angus had successfully completed the extraction from Jaegar—if he'd managed to add that final piece of chaos magic to his accumulated power—the Citadel would have activated.
What would have happened then..."
She shook her head.
"The estimates range from 'catastrophic localized reality failure' to 'complete dissolution of existence as we know it across multiple dimensions.'"
The silence that followed was heavy with the weight of what had almost happened.
