Rift Inspection (Part 1)

A day after their meeting with Mystica, Galen and Magnus finally set out for the Ruined Lands.

In most high-priority missions like this, standard protocol called for teleportation—clean, fast, and efficient. But those two? Yeah, no. Portals were too borrowed and institutional. They weren't fans of shortcut sorcery that didn't come from their own hands.

Instead, they chose the train.

Not just any creaky hunk of metal, though—this was one of the myst-infused locomotives, crafted under the Kingdom's strict enchantment orders. Powered by condensed myst cores and protected by runes of acceleration, these sleek beasts could bend hours into minutes. Days into a blink.