350 - The Beginning of the End

It took just two days to exterminate the fire creatures that still prowled the great forest. When the mission was completed, he returned home without sending any news to Nettelis.

Crossing the portal, Ryan looked at the watch on his wrist. "The time hasn't changed again... That's strange," he muttered, letting out a sigh.

'When I entered, the hand had just struck two o'clock. Not even a second had passed in the real world. However, yesterday things had been different,' he thought, frowning.

The day before, Ryan had carried out the same test, but had found a discrepancy of ten minutes between the time he had spent inside the elf world and the time in the real world. This difference, although small, indicated an instability in the temporal flow when crossing the portal, something that made him uncomfortable.