Stepping into the portal was a vastly worse experience than dearil could have ever imagined perhaps for immortals crossing realms via portals was a natural non-bothersome thing to do but to the fragile mortal body it couldn't be worse.
To dearil, it felt like he was in the portal tunnel for hours but in truth, it was only a few seconds but that still didn't change the fact that his body had to bear the load of the mental and physical strain on the mortal body coming out of the portal dearil landed in a... field an empty non-fancy plain old farmers field.
It was quite the view for dearil as someone brought up in the hidden realm who's never even been outside the palace think of it as a princess being locked in a tower and the walls of the tower were all she ever knew so you could imagine some of the thoughts going through his head while his head still feeling as though he's just been sucker-punched by a semi-truck trying to pick himself up off the ground.
Finally after looking over the horrid state of what is his person, covered in dirt and blood-stained ripped clothes showing off his toned upper body but his appearance a far cry from the young master type visage he had before entering the portal.
Looking around to try and get his bearings he spotted a road not too far away and a little cottage looking house deciding the best thing to do right now would be to clean up and change his clothes before deciding on what he planned to do next so thinking this way he made his way to the cottage.
Arriving at the cottage in the middle of seemingly nowhere he
*knock* *knock*
Opening the door
*Kreek*
*kyaaaaa* screams
a young woman quickly slammed the door shut in daerils face without so much as a word from dearil who just stood there blankly wondering what the heck just happened quickly coming out of his reverie he said quite calmly considering the state he was in
"Excuse me I just arrived here and I was wondering if there I somewhere I can clean myself up" the only response he got was a rather exasperated
"What!" said the young girl on the other side of the door
"I said is there somewhere I can clean up"
Positive of what she heard this time coming from the man that looked like he just committed multiple murders and fled through the backcountry she replied
"Behind the cottage is a small stream you can take yourself to clean up there" still hiding behind the door adamantly refusing to let him loose into the house
Dearil not wanting to waste any more time in his current state while not completely sure why she was so scared he has some inclinations that it might be due to his ghastly state so he left for the stream. arriving at the bank of the stream he stripped down to his birthday suit and stepped in and began returning to the earlier handsome look he usually has. taking his clothes out of the spatial ring his father had given him before he left and slipped into clean black robes with illuminating red floral design
After that, he returned to the door and said his thanks through the door but before turning to leave he saw the door opening and what appeared to be a very pretty 16-17 year old young girl with brown locks flowing down her upper back bright green eyes small nose and tanned wheat skin looking at him with wide eyes and mouth agape because of his current appearance looking extremely Handsome.
He chuckled "if you leave your mouth open it'll catch flys"
Blushing at his remarks but still looking up to keep stealing glances she inquired why he looked like had just walked out of a slaughterhouse
Sure he had no reason to hide anything since portals exist even in the mortal world and are commonly used by cultivators and more often than not middle to high-class society but that didn't mean commoners didn't know what it was or couldn't use it he simply said
" a portal mishap I just portaled into the field and ended up in my state " continuing he asked "where are we exactly"
She stared at him a little seemingly judging him for not having any clue what he was doing despite his beautiful appearance so trying not to judge him too much she said "we're on the outskirts of the village belonging to the kingdom of rodon"
"And where is that exactly" knowing his first step now was to begin his rise to power and the only thing he could do now was to get himself acquainted with this world and its views and how it worked
"Do you happen to have a map?"
She shook her head and said, "no my family are just simple farmers how could we afford to buy a map?" adding she said "But you could go to the nearest City and they will have large maps of the complete kingdom of rodon you could buy"