After settling his parents in, Zong Shen did not linger. With a thought, his figure vanished from the square before the Lord's Fortress.
The next moment, he appeared outside the isolation zone at the edge of the territory, which had been constructed with multiple protective magic arrays and [Armored City Wall Technology (Orange)].
This was where the Demon Domain dungeon portal was located.
The once-barren grassland had now been transformed into a massive circular military restricted zone.
Several walls towering twenty meters high formed layers of concentric rings.
The wall surfaces were inscribed with intricate magic runes.
They shimmered with a pale purple glow beneath the noon sun.
Broad buffer zones lay between the walls, their ground paved with anti-magic materials.
Protective magic array towers stood at regular intervals.
The crystal spheres atop those towers continuously emitted steady energy fluctuations, forming an energy net that covered the entire area.
Within the isolation zone stood a portal of light thirty meters tall and roughly ten meters wide.
Its surface resembled boiling lava, constantly churning with streams of dark red and orange-yellow energy.
Its frame was formed from some sort of charred rock, covered in ancient runes that seemed to have been scorched by intense heat.
Above the portal, the enormous countdown had long since reached zero.
Yet the portal had not fully opened. Even now, some force within was violently battering against it.
Each impact caused dull, thunderous booms to erupt from the spot.
Even the nearby ground trembled incessantly.
With the portal at its center, the ground for several kilometers around was covered in spiderweb-like cracks.
Some fissures were several meters wide and seemed bottomless, leaking dazzling red light and the pungent stench of sulfur.
After Zong Shen arrived, the ground near the eastern isolation wall suddenly bulged upward before