Salomon had ordered Constantine to obtain the manufacturing process for the lining material inside the cabinets at the energy laboratory, which was why Constantine had gone to such lengths to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archives and evidence storage departments in search of documents. The knowledge the Darkhold had given Joseph Bauer and Lucy Bauer allowed them to synthesize that magical crystal through scientific means, and such knowledge was extremely important to the spellcasters of the City of Immortals.
If every spell cast by a spellcaster were compared to a launched missile, then this crystal could serve as the missile's fairing and gyroscope.
The City of Immortals needed to ensure that all spellcasters in the future would not immediately go insane when drawing energy from the immaterial world, while also strengthening their magical abilities to some extent—after all, not every school was like Kamar-Taj, with its long-established curriculum for mental stability. Even Kamar-Taj, which placed such emphasis on mental safety, had seen more than one Arcanist betray and become corrupted throughout its history. This lattice material could alleviate such problems to a certain extent.
Compared to that, Salomon's problem was hardly worth mentioning.
Lorna Dane checked her watch—a gift from Athena, incredibly, incredibly expensive, the sort of expensive that even the girls at private schools could not afford. Salomon had been inside that house for ten minutes already. So far, there had not been a single gunshot, and the entire street remained as quiet as usual. No gunshots, no sounds of anyone being beaten, no objects smashing. This made little Lorna deeply uneasy. It was not that she worried about her brother's safety; she worried about the drug dealers' safety. Such silence could only mean that Salomon had taken them out as quickly as possible. Maybe he was mixing a solution right now,