The first thing Kyran noticed upon arriving at the Junction Port was the buzz of activities around him. Leif told him that Junction Port not only served as a one-stop place for portals leading to other planes but also as a trading port.
Looking around, Kyran noticed all sorts of beings dressed in their clan robes or armor. Some were wearing formal wear or combat suits. Seeing the latter made him recall Loar's creation.
The last time Kyran saw Loar, he was starting a new project on combat suits that would allow pure mage to boost their physical capabilities. Loar had concluded his concept and had just started with the design and planning when Kyran left the Guardians to look for Cyneah.
While observing the beings wearing combat suits, Kyran could not help but imagine Loar doing everything he could to purchase one just to dismantle it and study it to create his own.
'As expected,' Kyran sighed inwardly. 'Concepts that mages just thought of in the Lower Realm are already a common practice in the Higher Realm. Even creations like combat suits are pretty common.' The stark contrast in magical advancements between the two realms never ceased to amaze him.
He shook his head, determined to not let his curiosity distract him from his mission. He started envisioning the Junction Port's map that Leif showed him in his mind, confirming his location with a sense of urgency.
Because the whole place was buzzing with activity, Kyran found himself blending into the crowd, unnoticed as he stood at the side of a stall selling low to mid-tier magic items. The Junction Port was a place where everyone was too busy with their own tasks to pay much attention to others.
When Kyran arrived, that was the case. He initially thought that because the artificial plane had tight security, there would be mages acting as security roaming around and preventing unauthorized entry to the port. However, it appeared that apart from where the portals were located, the security around the business area was pretty lenient.
That was not to say that there were no security mages roaming around because there were. However, they were only there to ensure peace and order. They were not even paying attention to those mages dropping from above or appearing from out of nowhere using transmission arrays or magic items. Find your adventure at мѵʟ
Not that Kyran was complaining. In fact, this worked well for him because he did not have to walk around stealthily just to get to the portals.
Kyran navigated through the business area, looking at the stores and matching them on the map Leif showed him.
'This place is bigger than I thought,' he realized after walking for a few minutes.
The stores were bigger, and some paths were longer than Kyran anticipated. Other than that, the map was pretty accurate since the establishments and store names were all located in the same place.
It took Kyran about half an hour before finding where the portals were. As a matter of fact, before reaching his destination, he already sensed the enormous magic fluctuation around it.
Just as Oceanus told him, the security around the portals was indeed heavy. Apart from a saint-tier array formation, peak Sovereigns stood guard around its periphery.
Kyran looked at the establishments around him and spotted the tallest building. He then blended into the crowd before teleporting right on top of it.
The array formation consisted of several layers of formulas with different types of spells. Normally, such a formation was impossible to create because the relationship between magic energy types used on different types of spells was not always positive.
However, the array formation around the portal area managed to find harmony between these contrasting magic energies and spells to form a complex and intricate saint-tier array.
Kyran took a deep breath, feeling a little overwhelmed at what he saw.
It was not his first time seeing such an array formation. On his recent trip to the Tower of the Ancients, he found many saint-tier and even transcendent-tier arrays in almost every area they had gone to. However, analyzing, deciphering, and even affecting those arrays were easier because he could freely use his magic sense.
This time around, apart from his Draconic core limiting his natural senses, he could not use his magic sense.
'Or can I really not?' Kyran wondered as he opened his eyes.
The throbbing pain in his eyes subsided, allowing him to see better. He could not use Draconic magic to enhance them, but that was fine. What mattered to him was that he could use his eyes.
The moment Kyran thought this, Cyneah's image flashed through his mind, and he could not help but feel somewhat bad.
Here he was, feeling relieved that he could still see even when he was in pain when Cyneah had been suffering from a loss of sight almost all her life.
Pushing the sudden thought at the back of his mind, Kyran closed his eyes once more and tried to sort all the formulas he managed to decipher thus far.
He recalled the runes used when listing the triggers of the alarm.
'The runes it used for the Divine Sense are different from the runes for Magic Sense,' Kyran started to analyze the formulas. 'Usually, the runes portraying the higher level of Magic Sense, which is the Divine Sense, differ in the middle character. But the one on the formula is written as Divine, similar to the realm itself...'
The problem was that the rune for Divine, as a word, did not have any relation to the Divine, which was an advanced realm of the Sense.
Kyran stood up and looked down at the visible rune writings once more.
'Why are those rune writings visible in the first place?' He wondered. It seemed to him that those writings were made visible for a reason.
Kyran narrowed his eyes as an idea crossed his mind.