Benavent Portal! A Witcher Forever!

"Ithlinne's treasure?"

Tissaia de Vries, whose figure was nearly merging with the night beyond the bronze door, paused before understanding what Vesemir meant. She smiled softly.

"I would have loved to find the treasure I searched for throughout my childhood, but sadly, that isn't it. Ithlinne may truly have come to this island once, lived here, gazed at the sky at midnight, and sought traces of the future amid the tangled stars."

"Perhaps Tor Lara Tower was originally Ithlinne's domain..."

"Sadly..." Tissaia de Vries shook her head.

"Ithlinne Aglaral Aep Aevynne was a legendary Know-It-All and prophet. An ancient elf Know-It-All certainly would not have been poor, but neither would she have cared about worldly possessions."

"The latest archaeological findings prove that they were all priests of ancient elven deities, not elven kings like Dufusov. They did not possess that much wealth..."

Tissaia de Vries continued up the clearly restored stone stairs outside the tower.

On her left was a cold, cracked wall. On her right, the howling sea wind and the black shadows of Thanedd Island and the bay of Hidaris.

"If these findings had been released a century or two earlier, we might not have been punished so many times," Vesemir said, her gaze falling upon the sea glittering like shattered silver beneath the risen moon. She sighed regretfully, then asked, "What about the portal? Is there 'hope' beyond it?"

Tissaia de Vries shook her head. "The etched runes on the Benavent Portal are ancient, but still relatively clear. They are no different from the portals excavated from all ancient elven ruins."

"Perhaps it still conceals some secrets..." She pressed her thin lips together before adding carefully.

"But when the Evil God descended upon Arland a few months ago and used the Portal Array to relocate, instability had