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?"

to the portal that was slowly starting to

"We just wait."

"How long?"

just a

he said, by the time a minute passed, the portal fully formed. A green light lit up at the top of the portal and figures began to appear one by one in

"It's working..."

attention was drawn toward the

was able to

Ryan quietly mumbled.

hair a bit when I heard the last few

"You've always been helpfu—"

a couple of figures I haven't seen in

voice. A thin smile formed on my face as I focused

Randur, it has been

interesting

in me by the time they caught

didn't mind this at all as I stepped forward and gave them a brief rundown of where we were. I had previously omitted

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

"Immorra..."

beard upon hearing the name of

a while,

I know

"You do?"

at the fact that Randur seemed to know where we were as his head snapped in his

too was surprised as my focus

"How do you know?"

"Hehe."

his belly

of my time studying, 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.

wasn't just any regular planet, but was actually

seven main orcen planets, which were Nostrolia, Pestraolia, Onnosie, Alides, Chaipra, Giumia, Zohatis. All these planets held great strategic importance, and

in the air

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

the main reason why the orcs lost the war was precisely because of the loss of this planet! Had they not lost this planet, they might've been able to

Randur was talking, he walked around the room. As he touched the walls of the room, a shine began to appear

plants that possess aura-like properties, but it is also crammed to the gills with incredibly rare ores and minerals! This place is

slapped his thigh in excitement before he looked at

didn't you tell me about this before? If you told me about this place earlier, we could've

shook

free since the time we last saw each other. A lot

sad reality of

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

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

it would have been

we should take things easy for now. A war is still

"A war?"

each other. They then peered their sights toward the far end