An irregularity 2

Both the fissure and the portal overlapped, causing the anomaly the skeletons were seeing. When the portal began to expand, it forced the fissure to grow as well.

As the fissure expanded, something seemed to shift within it as the void swallowed the portal and it distorted uncontrollably. What the skeletons didn't know was that after the fissure swallowed the portal, the same happened on the other side.

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A few minutes earlier, in Elder Louis' laboratory.

It took less than a minute for a portal to open inside his laboratory and Elder Louis walked through it along with the zombie dragon. The order's mages were as careful as possible with the requests and orders of the elders, as they could easily make or break the life of any mage in the order.