The Veil of Darkness
Chapter 141: More Attacks

Chapter 141: More Attacks

While Annalise was on her way to the Mortal Realm along with Leela and the group of men from the Sky Castle, uproars were going on in both Mortal Realm and Seelie Empire.

The Portal Hall in the Woyong City in the Mortal Realm and the Portal Hall in the Winter Valley of the Seelie Empire were attacked the previous night by a mysterious force and just like the previous two incidents of the portal halls in these two realms, once again the guardian families had disappeared to somewhere.

Everyone was in a panic as no one understood exactly what happened to the Portal Hall in the darkness of the night. Hence, two more mysterious incidents shook the magical world, and still, people couldn’t make themselves think that there was something dangerous brewing under the shadows of their world.

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"How long will it take us to reach the shared border between the Mortal Realm and the Seelie Empire?" Annalise asked Leela when they all stopped at noon for a short break.

"Luckily, we are already pretty near the shared border. We will be able to enter the Mortal Realm before sunset at our current speed. But..." Leela hurriedly looked around toward the group of men who were sitting in a circle and discussing their own things at a distance from the two of them.

Making sure that no one was listening to their discussion, Leela stepped closer to Annalise, and while bringing her face closer to the latter’s ears, she continued, "... but the Portal Hall we all are heading to is located near the Capital City. It will take us more than a couple of days to reach there."

The girl stepped away once she was done speaking but she still spared a quick look in the direction of the men only to find Ezra looking right back at her. Both their expressions immediately turned sour and they both hurriedly looked away.

"Ain’t there a faster way to reach the capital?" Annalise asked as she looked at Leela with hopeful eyes. She not only wanted to return to her husbands’ side as soon as possible but she also wanted to find the answers as early as possible because she had a feeling deep down that they didn’t have enough time on their hands.

"Oh! There is one that I know of." Leela answered as she took a seat on the little rock opposite Annalise. However, the girl didn’t appear even the least bit excited while answering which made Annalise a little bit skeptical.

"What is that method? The one that can make us reach the Capital City as soon as possible." She pressed and waited for the girl to answer.

Leela took in a deep breath before she turned her attention in the direction of the group of men and spoke while pointing at them. "There, they are our fastest way to reach the Capital City of the Mortal Realm after a portal."

Annalise let out a disappointed sigh as she shook her head and looked away. Obviously, the dragon shifters could easily reach the Capital City of the Mortal Realm in a way shorter period when compared to their current mode of transport. However, just as they couldn’t use a portal for traveling because none of them was powerful enough to cast a portal spell, the dragon shifters were also bound to travel on horses even when they could fly.

"I can’t believe there’s no other way for us to reach the Capital City sooner." She murmured as she stood up and headed in the direction of her horse, she was too tired of sitting down on the ground and not being able to sort out their biggest problem at the moment.

"Who said there ain’t one?" It was Ezra who responded to her statement as he and his men also stepped in the direction of the horses. Seemed like it was time for them to continue with their long journey.

"There is another one except for the portals and you all?" Leela asked as she too moved to stand next to Annalise while staring at the group of men.

"Teleportation." Ezra didn’t beat around the bush and answered the question straightforwardly, his answering leaving both Leela and Annalise speechless and stunned for the next couple of moments.

"What the... How come I didn’t think of teleportation?" Leela appeared to be in disbelief about not being able to think of something so common, yet not so common.

"If we can teleport to the Capital City, why are we still riding the horses?" Annalise questioned as she looked at all the five people present around her.

Leela was the first one to shake her head as she answered, "Most of the Mer bloods can’t teleport. It’s always the royal heir and the monarchs who have the ability to master transportation spells."

Annalise nodded her head in understanding, recalling some text that she once read about this particular information about the Mer Race in some history book during her childhood but she wasn’t able to recall much except that she did read something related to it once in the past.

The next one to speak was Ezra. "As for us, though we can teleport, none of us is powerful enough to teleport directly to the Capital City. The farthest that I can go is the Witch Tower located at a distance of three days from the Capital City but there is also a side effect, using that much power to teleport all of us there will leave me exhausted, and I’ll be down for a day or more. All in all, it’s not really a great idea to use teleportation as it won’t help us much in general."

"Are we really doomed to travel all the way to the Capital City of the Mortal Realm on these horses?" Leela asked no one in particular as she looked at the poor horses that were also doomed with them.

Annalise took in a deep breath as she took a few moments to think before she finally dropped the bomb.

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