The Expected Change

Strange phenomena continued to occur in London, but the mages of Kamar-Taj successfully used the Mirror Dimension to isolate the most suspicious incidents.

They intercepted six pegasi, twelve armored beasts, and a lava dragon, driving these creatures back to their original worlds. At the same time, they kindly helped three dwarves, two elves, and two half-orcs find their way home.

Meanwhile, the mages also opened portals to divert the snow and ice from Jotunheim to the North Pole.

Although the overlap of the Nine Realms was a spatial anomaly that heavily interfered with the mages' Mirror Dimension spells, under Xiang Qian's direction, discussions of London's strange occurrences remained confined to the realm of urban legends and did not attract widespread attention.

Of course, the wording specifically emphasized "widespread," mainly because a small number of people had still been drawn in. Some were simply idle, such as children on winter break; others were researchers who had caught the faintest trace of something unusual.

For example, Jane Foster, her assistant, and her assistant's assistant.

A group of energetic little brats crowded around Dr. Foster and eagerly ran into a river cargo dock not far from Greenwich Observatory, soon vanishing into the depths of an abandoned warehouse building.

The entire process had unfolded under Xiang Qian's watch. This was the edge of a spatial overlap point; apart from abnormal gravity in certain areas, there were no particularly conspicuous anomalies. Short on manpower, the mages of Kamar-Taj had not extended the Mirror Dimension over it.

Now it seemed that the mages' momentary oversight had allowed a pack of overly energetic brats to discover a loophole.

Xiang Qian felt he should go take a look, if only to persuade Dr. Foster to keep this place secret. After all, no one might take a group of