Over the past two days, Rex had been making repeated trips to the Royal Palace.
He had been discussing matters with his father in this world, and there was no shortage of things to discuss.
There was the matter of Darrowshire, the matter of the Industrial Base, and now, following Medivh's recent arrival, another issue had arisen: Outland.
The reopening of the Dark Portal outweighed both of the previous matters.
No matter how much of a stir the Industrial Base had caused, or how many days King Genn had spent discussing it with Rex, once news came that the Dark Portal was about to open, everything changed.
The focus of every discussion had shifted to the Dark Portal.
Rex had been very young when the Dark Portal first opened, and he had no firsthand impression of the disasters that followed.
When Rex arrived in this world, it was already Year Fifteen after the opening of the Dark Portal. By then, both the First War and the Second War had ended in victory.
The memories he had inherited only touched on those events in passing, with very little detail.
King Genn, however, had personally lived through the devastation that followed the opening of the Dark Portal.
That was why he took its impending reopening so seriously. For several days running, he had housed Medivh in the Royal Palace so they could discuss the matter at any time.
Medivh's words still carried considerable weight among humans.
Once, he had been dismissed as a fraud and a madman, and his exchange with Antonidas had become a notorious object of ridicule. But that was ancient history now. As subsequent events proved him right, Medivh's identity as the Prophet had become widely known among humans.
Then there had been the Battle for Mount Hyjal and