The second time Karin passed through the portal, his reaction was even more violent.
It felt worse than the last crossing... He crouched on the ground and vomited for a long time before he felt a little better.
The Seventh Ring mage guarding the portal seemed quite used to this... He calmly ordered several wizard apprentices to clean up the vomit.
"Sorry..." Karin hastily said once he had recovered.
"No need. The portal over in Lordaeron has had structural instability issues ever since it was built!" the brown-robed mage explained. "It would actually be abnormal to come through that portal without any adverse reaction!"
Karin immediately felt as though he had been duped. "Then why did we use it?"
"Of course, this is a matter of dignity!" the portal administrator said with complete conviction. "At a summit of this importance, wouldn't it be embarrassing if wizards arrived and departed in the same way as those rulers?"
"Suffering just to keep up appearances..." Karin did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Quickly, close the portal!" the administrator continued directing his wizard apprentices.
"What's the hurry..."
"The portal runs on Azeroth diamonds!" The administrator rolled his eyes at Karin. "It costs thousands of gold coins every minute, you know! Opening it twice for you and Speaker Antonidas has already cost Dalaran over ten thousand gold coins."
Karin: "..."
Archmage Antonidas suddenly emerged from the administrator's hut. Although his face was a little pale, his expression looked as calm as ever.
"Let's go!" He waved to Karin.
Karin hurried after him, feeling somewhat puzzled. Didn't he say everyone suffered an adverse reaction when passing through the portal? Why did my mentor...
Once the two had left the portal hut behind, the administrator pointed inside it to his apprentices.
"Hurry up and clean