The Author's POV

As soon as Ryan pressed a few of the buttons on the control panel, the portal that he had constructed began to behave in a peculiar way.

There was a rustling in the air, and on the control panel, there were suddenly rows upon rows of data that appeared with each second that passed.

The information that was written on the panels was incomprehensible to me. Even with the chip in my head, I couldn't make heads or tails of what was written on them. The same couldn't be said for Rayn, who looked through the data in a composed manner and typed a variety of different codes at the speed at which they were appearing.

Ta!

With the sudden press of a key, Ryan urged us back.

"...The portal is connected. Take a couple of steps back. "

"Sure."

I complied with his request and moved a couple of steps back.

After not even a fraction of a second had passed since I had taken a step back, the portal started violently trembling, and an eerie whistling sound that was reminiscent of that of the wind blowing inside of a storm started to reverberate throughout the room.

Rata! Rata! Rata!

The large metallic portal began to shake, as did the room, which had already been shaking slightly before this occurred.

"Okay, the connection is established!"

The loud reverberation of Ryan's voice occurred at the precise moment when the shaking started to become more intense.

He pressed another key and everything went deathly quiet. The shaking stopped, and so did all the noise.

Ryan hurriedly moved toward where the portal was with a large core in the palm of his hand.

"Ready?"

He asked whilst looking at both Angelica and I.

Meeting Angelica's eyes, we both nodded our heads as we quietly observed from a distance.

"Ready."

"Ready. "

"Okay."

Ryan shattered the core in his hand and a wave of mana exploded in the air. The scene looked similar to a large explosion of colors as the mana instantly started to spread throughout the entire room.

Well...at least, attempted to.

When Ryan placed his hand on the edge of the portal, the mana that was previously unrestrictedly moving through the room abruptly came to a stop. Then, much like a magnet, it began to draw closer and closer to the center of the portal.

"Done."

Ryan wiped the sweat that had accumulated on his forehead and moved toward where we were.

"What do we do now?"

curiously asked while paying attention to the

"We just wait."

"How long?"

much, just a

he said, by the time a minute passed, the portal fully formed. A green light lit up at the top of

"It's working..."

Ryan's faint whisper coming from beside me as my attention was drawn toward the

that I was able

Ryan quietly mumbled.

a bit when I heard

"You've always been helpfu—"

figures I haven't seen in a

cut mid-sentence by a rough voice. A thin smile formed on my face as I

it has been

interesting place

the time they caught a glimpse of the

a brief rundown of where we were. I had

on a planet called Immorra. It was an old orcen planet which was mainly used for

"Immorra..."

beard upon hearing the name

after a while, and he slapped his

I know this place!

"You do?"

seemed to know where we were as his head

surprised as

"How do you know?"

"Hehe."

held his belly

as opposed to you, who spends most of his time playing with nonsense. I remember coming across the

"Oh? Enlighten me. "

Jomnuk's brow arched upward.

Randur smirked in contempt.

planet wasn't just any regular planet, but was

were conquered by the demons, there used to be seven main orcen planets, which were Nostrolia, Pestraolia, Onnosie, Alides, Chaipra, Giumia, Zohatis. All these planets held great strategic importance, and were where the main

the

how important all of the planets were, their importance was nothing in comparison to that of Immorra, the planet we're

reason why the orcs lost the war was precisely because of the loss of this planet!

talking, he walked around the room. As he touched the walls of the

is this location ideal for cultivating medical plants that possess aura-like properties, but it is also crammed to the gills with incredibly rare ores and

thigh in excitement before he

we could've already extracted tons and tons of metal, which would've been extremely

shook

we last saw each other. A

sad

I couldn't be fully blamed for this because portal technology had only recently advanced to the point where it could connect to places that were thousands

the dwarves' generosity in imparting a great deal of the technical expertise that they possessed was a significant factor in making this accomplishment

would have been impossible to bring the others. There was a limit to his

easy for now. A war is still ongoing at

"A war?"

a moment to look at each other. They then peered their