Movement in the bushes made Cara cheer, expecting something fun.
However, what they found was just one haggard and bedraggled looking Immortal.
"Greetings travellers. Welcome to my not so personal hell," he announced in a raspy voice.
"Well hello. I take it that means there are dangerous things in here?" Cara asked.
"There are a few.
However, that isn’t the problem. The exit portal literally leads to hell. Or, I should say the sixth circle of the hell dimension. It’s literally a link to the holding cells reserved by the Pantheons for heretics too annoying to be left unsupervised.
There is no way out of here.
If you pass through there, you will be imprisoned by the Demons who rule that place, and if you stay here, you get to live a life of mana deprivation and boredom with limited food resources."
"I vote that we go through the portal."
The stranger stared at Cara’s too rapid response.
"Did you not hear what I said?"
"Oh, I heard you. But I really want to go anyhow. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? You can’t imprison a Chaos Badger."
The Immortal definitely didn’t believe that. The Gods had ways of restraining even each other. Surely, it wouldn’t be impossible to restrain a simple badger who was still at the Immortal Rank.
{Is there good stuff in here? I need plants for Alchemy. Even if they’re mana starved, that’s fine.} Remi asked as she left her space.
"Can someone translate? I don’t speak serpent."
Karl inspected the man, and realized that his System Interface was in an unknown language, though it was translating his language to human common.
"She wants to collect the mana deprived plants from this place to improve the variety of her Alchemical Garden. I think that if you are willing to cooperate with us, we can likely take you with us when we leave."
The man laughed hysterically. "There is no way out. Didn’t I just tell you? This place is cut off from reality, even when it’s in contact with a world and new people are pulled in, there is no way out."
Karl considered his words, then opened a portal to the flower garden, which caused an instant influx of air and mana until he closed it.
"No, I think that it will be fine, I can leave by portal."
The Immortal collapsed to his knees and began to cry.
"There was an exit, a real exit, and you let it close, just like that," he sobbed.
"You know what. Off you go." Cara announced, then opened a portal.
She grabbed him by the shirt and forcibly hurled him through before closing the portal.
"The Clan compound. He’s in front of the ice cream shop hugging strangers."
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