An Unwelcome Guest: Kamar-Taj on Guard!

The cold wind of the Himalayas swept across every inch of exposed rock like countless sharp scalpels. The air here was thin and pure, cold enough to freeze an ordinary person's lungs.

Harley Quinn pulled her skintight combat suit, made from Apokolips fabric, closer around herself. She breathed out a long plume of white mist and gazed excitedly at the magnificent world of ice and snow before her.

"Wow! Link, this place is way prettier than that fake-ass artificial sky on Knowhere! The air's so fresh, too. Just a little... freezing on the butt!" She bounced in place to keep warm, looking curiously around her.

Link's gaze had already passed over the rolling snowcapped mountains and settled on an ancient temple complex nestled among the peaks, seemingly cut off from the world.

Kamar-Taj.

Earth's beginner village for magic. Headquarters of the Sorcerer Supreme. Looks pretty mystical, but I wonder if the "mobs" inside can put up a fight.

Link felt no particular stir of emotion. If anything, he almost wanted to laugh. He had grown used to viewing everything in this world through the lens of check-ins and conquest. To him, this thousand-year-old holy site of magic was no different from Gotham City's gang turf or the Collector's museum. It was just another dungeon he was about to clear.

The instant he turned his gaze toward it, an ancient alarm bell inside Kamar-Taj, one that had echoed through the centuries, began to ring without warning!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The urgent, far-reaching toll pierced the wind and snow, carrying an unprecedented sense of gravity and alarm. Magic stirred throughout the holy site at the sudden warning, and an enormous golden dome, invisible to the naked eye, instantly enveloped the entire temple complex.

Link and Harley appeared before Kamar-Taj's old, imposing mountain