Chapter 566: The Gate of Eternal Night
The following afternoon, on the second floor of the council hall at Hangu Pass.
There is less than an hour left before Beacon Fire Territory and Viscount Nightmare automatically establish contact.
Lin Feng stood by the window, having already made up his mind.
Instead of passively waiting for the unknown to arrive, it's better to take the initiative and make this step.
He turned and walked to the center of the room, raising his hand to summon the core of the territory.
The golden orb of light appeared out of the void and hovered in mid-air, slowly rotating, its light flowing like lava.
His gaze swept across the core panel and quickly locked onto the option—【Interdimensional Communication】.
"Initiate contact."
With a thought, the core of the territory suddenly burst forth with dazzling golden light, causing the entire Hangu Pass to tremble slightly.
The light grew brighter and brighter, until it was blindingly bright, and then suddenly contracted with a very low rumble, retreating completely into the core.
The room returned to silence, with only a few strands of slowly flowing golden threads remaining on the core surface.
The system message indicates that it will silently unfold within the field of view.
【A connection has been established with the "Gateway to Eternal Night" plane.】
【Please select a location to place the portal.】
A semi-transparent blueprint appeared on the light screen. The portal was fifty meters wide and sixty meters high, with a simple yet ancient structure. Twisted nightmare script was engraved all over the edges of the portal frame.
Lin Feng stared at the blueprint for a moment, then moved his finger across the map, finally stopping at an open area fifteen li east of the north gate of Hangu Pass and five li south of the Great Wall.
By placing it outside the territory, at least the Great Wall can act as a defensive line should there be any hidden dangers to the teleportation portal.
He clicked confirm.
In the open field outside the North Gate, a dark purple beam of light descended from the sky, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
A massive portal rose from the pillar of light, its 50-meter-wide and 60-meter-high frame constructed of a dark material that was neither stone nor gold. Inside the frame, a dark purple light curtain rippled slowly like the surface of water.
【The portal has been installed.】
【Restriction: Only the lord can pass; this restriction must be lifted at the Gate of Eternal Night.】
Lin Feng frowned slightly as he looked at the last line of the message.
In other words, only he can walk through this door at present. He originally planned to send someone in to scout the way first, but now it seems that the plan has fallen through.
"Never mind, I'll just have to go myself."
He stopped worrying and casually brought up the Great Wall's interface. As expected, the "Dynamic Territory" function could cover the area where the portal was located.
"That way, at least we don't have to worry about the enemy sabotaging our rear."
Lin Feng felt somewhat relieved and planned to formally incorporate the teleportation gate into the Great Wall's defense system once he confirmed that it posed no fatal threat.
Pulling himself out of his thoughts, Lin Feng flew straight out of the second-floor window.
As soon as he stepped out of the window, he noticed that Jiang Yelan, Jiang Zhaoyue, Zhou Guosheng, and others were all floating in the air, clearly attracted by the strange phenomenon at the core of the territory.
Upon seeing Lin Feng, everyone immediately came to greet him.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Lin Feng explained the situation: "Our plane has made contact with that Nightmare Viscount, but so far only a portal has been established, and there is no other information. I plan to go and take a look by myself first."
"You're all alone?" Jiang Zhaoyue frowned immediately, her grip on the Silver Moon Heavenly Spear tightening slightly. "What if it's a trap?"
Jiang Yelan didn't say much. She simply flew to Lin Feng's side, her dark eyes looking straight into his: "Let me go first."
Lin Feng shook his head: "The teleportation portal has restrictions; only the lord himself can pass through it."
Zhou Guosheng frowned and said in a deep voice, "Lord Lin, why don't we wait a little longer and discuss this further? Now that the teleportation portal has been established, the other side should send people over on their own initiative. There's no need to take the risk ourselves."
Lin Feng felt a warmth in his heart as he looked at the concerned eyes of the crowd, but he still waved his hand and said in a relaxed tone.
"It's alright. We'll have to make contact sooner or later. Instead of waiting passively, it's better to take the initiative. After all, I am a Nightmare Baron recognized by the Nightmare Origin. We belong to the Nightmare faction, so they shouldn't attack me for no reason."
Having said that, he said no more and led everyone directly towards the direction of the teleportation portal.
A moment later, everyone was suspended in mid-air.
Before them stood a massive portal, sixty meters tall, on the desolate landscape.
The light screen was a deep, dark purple, interspersed with countless flowing silver-white light spots, like a bottomless vortex of starlight, radiating a chilling spatial fluctuation.
Under the varied gazes of the crowd, Lin Feng calmly took the Wildfire Spear from his back, its shaft shimmering with a faint golden light.
Then, he took a deep breath and stepped into the dark purple light curtain.
The dark purple light instantly engulfed him.
...
The teleportation light slowly dissipated behind him, like a layer of mist blown away by the wind.
He turned around, then froze on the spot.
What he just stepped out of was not a portal, but a wall, a colossal wall made of pure light that stretched to the horizon.
The light curtain was dark purple, interspersed with countless flowing silver-white light threads, like lightning frozen in amber.
It rises straight up from the ground, at least four hundred meters high, like a luminous cliff stretching across the landscape.
On his left and right sides, the light curtain extends endlessly in two directions, each side exceeding two hundred meters, and the total width of the light curtain is at least five hundred meters.
This is the portal itself.
Thousands of people are going in and out of this light curtain.
Lin Feng saw that less than ten meters to his left, a level 30 vampire wearing a blood-red cloak had just stepped out of the light screen.
The man's face was as pale as paper, with a trace of blood still remaining at the corner of his mouth. Behind him were eight servants carrying black iron boxes, the surfaces of which were covered with thick frost, and it was unknown what was inside.
Further to the left, three Lv19 bear-men simultaneously squeezed out of the light curtain.
Their armor still bore fresh cuts, and a faint smell of blood filled the air.
On the right, a level 25 female cat-woman led six pack animals out from the light screen, their backs piled high with goods covered with tarpaulins.
The catwoman wore a shrewd yet weary expression. She skillfully patted the neck of the lead pack animal, urging it forward, and the entire caravan moved in an orderly fashion under her command.
Lin Feng looked up and saw a group of harpies flying out from about 100 meters above the ground in the middle of the light screen, their wings flapping and creating a foul gust of wind.
Three hundred meters away, a floating combat vehicle pulled by four flying dragons had just completed its crossing.
A level 40 Nightmare General, clad entirely in black armor, stood atop the chariot. The spiked wheel hubs on either side of the chariot were spinning at high speed, the resulting shockwaves shattering the surrounding clouds.