Sorry, I finished writing this chapter a little late, so its length ended up shrinking. I had originally planned on three thousand characters, but by the time I was writing it, it was already past ten, almost eleven, and I was running out of time. To qualify for the full-attendance bonus, I had to post before midnight, so in the end, I could only make it a two-thousand-character chapter. Yesterday I promised a small burst of updates, and today it really was a small one. Altogether, it was only a thousand characters more than the usual four thousand. Still, an extra thousand is an extra thousand, and that counts as a burst. Rex stood in the courtyard, listening to the soldier who had come to report, and frowned slightly.
This was not good news. Portal fluctuations had been detected in the northwest of Tirisfal Glades.
Not just any Tom, Dick, and Harry could open a Portal. Setting aside mages of heroic difficulty, even among ninth-rank mages, those capable of opening Portals were the cream of the crop. The Kingdom of Gilneas kept records of all of them.
When Rex heard about the Portal fluctuations in northwestern Tirisfal Glades, his first thought was to wonder what these people had come to do.
It was not as though Lordaeron City had no Portals. If they wanted to visit Lordaeron City, there was no need to go to such trouble. A platform had been set aside within the city specifically for Portals. They only needed to construct their Portal there to arrive directly in Lordaeron City. Thus, the fluctuations in the northwest meant that whoever had used the Portal was not heading for Lordaeron City at all. Otherwise, there was no explaining it.
If they were not going to Lordaeron City, then what