An Expected Ending

The anomalies in London continued to occur, but the mages of Kamar-Taj successfully used the Mirror Dimension to isolate the incidents most likely to arouse suspicion.

They intercepted six flying horses, twelve armored beasts, and a lava dragon, driving those animals 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 and redirected the ice and snow from Jotunheim to the North Pole.

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

Of course, the wording deliberately emphasized "widespread," mainly because a small number of people had still been drawn in. Some had nothing better to do, such as children on winter break; others were researchers who had caught a whiff of something suspicious.

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

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

The entire process had unfolded under Xiang Qian's watch. That place lay on the outskirts of a spatial overlap point; aside from abnormal gravity in certain areas, there were no particularly conspicuous anomalies. With manpower in short supply, the mages of Kamar-Taj had not extended the Mirror Dimension over it.

Now it seemed that, due to a momentary oversight by the mages, a group of overly energetic little brats had found the loophole.

Xiang Qian felt he should go take a look, if only to persuade Dr. Foster to keep