Rex did not stay long in Nethergarde Keep. After chatting with Clay for a while, he had gained a clear picture of the keep's situation.
Then he left Nethergarde Keep through the Portal opened by the archmage.
His visit to Nethergarde Keep had simply been an assignment from King Genn, who had asked Rex to inspect the place in person and see what condition it was really in.
He had to admit that he was quite satisfied with Nethergarde Keep's condition.
With a few repairs and a contingent of troops stationed there, the keep would be secure.
Then, even if the Dark Portal opened again, the Alliance would not be caught off guard.
Besides, Rex already had an idea of when the Dark Portal would open.
That was a conclusion he had drawn himself, based on information from the original timeline.
In the original timeline, the Dark Portal had not reopened until year twenty-five after the opening of the Dark Portal.
This time, however, Rex did not think it would take as long as it had in the original timeline. It was currently year twenty-two after the opening of the Dark Portal. If events followed the original course, the Portal would not reopen for another three years.
But as Rex saw it, although it would not happen much earlier, it would not follow the original timeline either. The Dark Portal would likely open around year twenty-four.
That was also why Rex had been so unhurried before. He had kept asking the archmage to locate Outland's coordinates, allowing him more than a year to do so. Finding Outland sometime in year twenty-three would have been enough.
That would leave roughly another year to establish contact with the humans in Outland and provide them with resources.
It could be said that although