"Are you wondering why we are not using portals anymore?" Ren appears at the side of Kali while she is tending to her horse.
"You can say that." Kali answered and handed over the reins to a knight.
Portals are not always available since the pay for the mages to operate it are quite expensive and so if a teleportation portal is available to use it means the town has the means to pay for it. It would either be the town is extremely rich like the capital with several rich nobles willing to pay for their travel convenience or the town has a rich lord that pays for it.
"Two out of the three portals paid by the Alexanders are not even placed around the Count's fief." Kali continued.