I tried to think of all the possible reasons why the empress would shut down the garden but only one stuck on my mind.
What if it had something to do with the beast monsters?
I shook the thought off quickly. It was treason what I just thought of.
If I ever said it out, I could be hung.
I shook the thoughts off and continued walking.
After a few more steps, I still hadn't seen a portal and I was starting to wonder if I there was a portal here at all or I was wrong with my presumptions.
But then…
I felt it before I saw it.
A premonition that I had crossed into a different space.
It tugged at my chest, at the ring of mana around my chest.
I quickened my steps until it was in my field of vision, the portal.
It was just as I remembered. There was a pink gem suspended in the air and from it sprung a sphere large enough to let even a human crawl out of it.
