Yang Kaitai's breathing quickened at the sight, as though a peerless beauty were slowly undressing before him. His eyes nearly popped out of his head.
This portal was the treasure of every spell scholar's dreams.
"Big Yellow, stay here and help Yang Kaitai study the portal. Aries Palace and I will scout ahead," Nameless said.
Big Yellow nodded. "All right. I'll keep Old Yang safe."
"Let's go," Nameless said to Aries Palace.
The two headed into one of the Rabbit Holes. Once inside the passage, they both noticed something strange.
"You first," Nameless said calmly when Aries Palace looked at him.
"The matter here doesn't seem real," Aries Palace said. "It's more like... the product of a spell. The soil, the rocks, the dust... everything feels out of place."
"Right. Where would you find so many stones with exactly the same shape?" Nameless said with a smile.
He beckoned, and an irregularly shaped rock flew into his hand. Another flew over from a different direction. Seen separately, neither looked unusual. Side by side, it was another story.
Their shapes were hard to describe, but they were identical.
Nature could work miracles as though carved by the hands of gods and ghosts, but Nameless and Aries Palace were certain these rocks were no natural creation.
Aries Palace drew over a few more stones and grains of sand. Every piece of the same kind had exactly the same shape.
Everything here had been made by spells.
They exchanged a glance, smiled, and said in unison, "Arman-Seti!"
Arman-Seti might have come through the portal yesterday or even today, but the difference in the passage of time between here and Great Wilderness City was enormous. There was no telling how many years he had spent here.
With the portal at his disposal, he had