Chapter 182: The Mysterious Portal

Aimu frowned, looking at Belthazar; he had never seen a shadow beast like this, so it was more correct to call it an Abomination rather than a Beast.

"Just how did you do it? There should be no way to do teleportation from here to outside this planet," Aimu asked.

"The Almighty sentinel asking me about it. Kekeke, what makes you think I will answer it?" the King replied, while his head tilted, dodging another attack from Freya.

As he did this, his finger pointed at Aimu, shooting a black energy-like laser toward his face.

Aimu dodged it while his axe moved toward the King's neck. But the King didn't even try to defend now; the moment the blade reached him, it failed to even pierce through it.

Freya, looking at this, speculated that the more the portal grew in size, the stronger Balthazar was. But the problem with closing this portal is that they need to kill him.

'But is he really the anchor? Normally, if something is the anchor, if we interrupt him, the portal should close or at least be disturbed. Is it possible to change the anchor?' Freya asked herself as she looked around the area.

Back at the entrance to the mother tree, Alice now met up with Aurora, Blaire, and Sasha.

"Aurora, you know what to do," Alice said the moment she saw Aurora, who then nodded toward Sasha and Blaire.

Meanwhile, a distance away from them, Alex was with William. Since they decided to separate, he wanted to check the portal first before going to Alice.

It didn't take long for him to reach a distance where he could see the portal.

At the same time, Petricia Olivia and the group reached the place Zold pointed out. This allowed Alex to see the portal from this side, too.

'It really looks the same; Petricia, try to throw something toward it.'

Petricia then picked a rock from a nearby area and threw it inside. Alex then focused his eyes on the portal.

If his speculation is right, the rock should come out from this place. But his expectations quickly snuffed out. The rock didn't come out, no matter how long he waited.

'Vesa, do you know what that is?'

[A long-distance teleportation portal, but I cannot say anything more than that. Try to get closer so that I can try to find out more.]

Alex frown. He could see Aimu and Freya fighting the King. There were also two beasts fighting down below. Getting close will be too dangerous for him now. S~eaʀᴄh the Nôvel(F)ire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He knew better than to try to join the fight. Alex also didn't try to use his spying ability on them. Just in case they realized he does this.

He has often read something like this happening in novels he read. Even though it's just a fantasy story, he prefers a better be safe than sorry approach.

William didn't say anything; he looked at the King through binoculars with puzzled eyes. 'How could the king become that strong?'

Based on the information he had known, the King should not have been able to fight the Sentinel. Not to mention, this time, the Sentinel was backed by another being that also had similar strength.

'Petricia, tell Emily to send a drone inside the portal,' Alex ordered.

'King, isn't it better for me to enter? I can share what I see with you.'

'No, we don't know what is inside. Just do what I tell you.'

'Alright, king.' Petricia then forwarded what Alex told her to the others.

Zold also suggested that he enter the portal to check it. But his idea was quickly shut down by Quartz and Emily.

They feel it's not worth the risk. Their real purpose is to clear the labyrinth, not to find out about this mystery.

Olivia meanwhile had a thought in her mind, 'Alex seems very interested in this portal; did he accidentally enter one of these? And now stuck looking for a way out?'

Emily then took out a drone and started flying it toward the portal; the moment it entered, she lost connection with it. Not only did it not show any feed, but it also lost signal.

The drone is not a normal one; it's specially made for long distances.

This one uses quantum entanglement technology; in theory, even if it cannot send feed, at the very least, it will still be connected. No matter how far it is.

The only possible reason for this is either the drone was destroyed by an attack from a hostile entity or because of the environment.

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Alex put some thought into it, and he told Petricia to stand by.

"William, you wait here; in case something happens, run back to Blaire Mansion," he ordered.

He then jumped forward, trying to get closer to the portal. Halfway, he stopped as he saw a light creature fly toward him.

"Alex, it's me, Freya," the pixie said, then proceeded to tell him the situation.

"So I ask for you to go toward the mother tree now, help my daughter. I am worried about the situation there."

"The portal seems linked with one outside; I need to make sure of this first."

"You want to enter the portal?

It's too dangerous, even though you say it's linked with outside this secret realm. It's not necessarily just reach there.

I suspect it's linked with multiple places; otherwise, it won't explain what happened to Balthazar."

"Fine, in that case, help this creature to enter through the portal."

Alex took out a device and pointed it at the ground; a light came out from it, taking out a Wolf Howler.

After some training, this one had a power level of three; as long as Freya gave her help, he was sure this wolf could enter the portal.

Freya didn't understand why Alex wanted to do this, but she relented since she wanted Alex to move to help her daughter.

No matter what she had done. Freya didn't want anything bad to happen to them.