Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1663 1635. Portal
After hunting the dragon turtle, processing its heart with alchemy, and setting up the frame of the fixed portal, it was already late at night.

However, the dozen or so insurgents who had helped carry the dragon turtle's body have now been placed in the wounded ward.

They themselves thought it was a big fuss because the deep damage caused by the infrasound to their bodies had not yet been fully manifested. They just felt that after spending those nauseating and dizzy few minutes on the mountain, their bodies were actually fine.

It's just that bleeding still occurs from the gums, mouth and nose occasionally.

But those who really know the situation are more pessimistic about their health than they are.

"Not yet?"

Sakia crossed his arms across his chest, his tone irritated, and just after a short pause he started asking again for who knows how many times.

The rebels had only lost ten people when they took down Verken, but now they would lose more than a dozen people when they hunted a dragon turtle? This was no small problem.

"Calm down, Sakia."

Lan En did not put down the conical crystal in his hand that was pointing at the portal frame. He spoke calmly to the Dragon Slayer.

"This time it's my responsibility too. I know too little about rare monsters like dragon turtles, but I asked people to prepare to move the bodies directly. So I will be responsible for their lives and health."

"But even with the worst estimate, their body systems will collapse in a full day, which means tomorrow night. This period of time is enough anyway."

Sakia frowned and said nothing, but crossed his arms across his chest, tapping the armor plate on his arm with one finger.

Of course she knew that time was enough, but how could one control one's mood so easily?

She was feeling extremely annoyed, but at this moment, the conical crystal in Lan En's hand began to flicker in unison with the crystal inlaid on the top of the arched door frame.

At the same time, the roaring bear head pendant on the demon hunter's neck also began to jump around automatically like dancing.

Lan's large cloak that was originally draped over a chair beside him, as well as the dust, wood and stone debris on the floor of this abandoned underground warehouse.

They were all attracted towards the portal by the sudden change in air pressure and the resulting sound of wind.

Suddenly, the sudden change in air pressure seemed to reach a threshold, making a dull sound like a ruptured air membrane.

"Boom."

Short and heavy.

And inside the portal frame built by Lan En, there was originally just an elf-style wooden door frame. Through the empty door frame, one could still see the bricks and stones of the wall behind it.

But a moment later, a thin blue curtain appeared inside the door frame.

The portal has established a connection with the other side.

A sound of light footsteps was heard, and a ball of magical light condensed on Margarita's right hand, and the same was true in her eyes.

She stepped out of the portal, and with her hand raised with magical light, a few fingers and wrists twisted left and right, changing gestures as if she was adjusting some mechanical structure.

"Wait a moment, dear." As Margarita's hands moved, the light in the portal gradually stabilized. "Okay, it's done. The connection is complete."

"Oh, it's really thanks to the explosion of Thor Laura on the island during the last meeting, otherwise this portal wouldn't be able to connect to the island of Thanedd."

After the sorceress finished the spell in her hands, she turned around and looked at the abandoned underground warehouse.

"Cassandra isn't here? That's right, people like her should be very busy on the battlefield."

As she spoke, Margarita casually handed a lady's handbag to Lan En.

This expression is just like a rich woman handing you a card and saying "Here, use it".

It was late at night and Margarita looked like she had just gotten out of bed.

She was wearing a set of bright red silk pajamas, a color that should have been gaudy but which she managed perfectly with her temperament.

Expensive silks gleamed in the torchlight.

The pajamas were loose on her and only tied at the waist. When she walked, the slits revealed her plump and straight long legs.

"Ha, isn't this Ms. Green Dragon? Long time no see."

Margarita smiled and waved at Sachia, her breasts billowing under her loose and seductive pajamas.

"Just call me Sakia, Ms. Margarita."

Sakia still frowned as she responded to the sorceress's greeting.

"It's really rare." Lan En raised his eyebrows, took Margarita's handbag from her, opened it and looked inside, saying, "I thought you would jump on me directly after you came out."

"Has my attraction to you decreased?"

Lan En joked as she found what she needed in her purse.

"Of course not, dear." Margarita tilted her head to look at Lan En and smiled ambiguously, "It's undeniable that just being with you makes me burn with desire."

"But I'm no longer a little girl whose mind is filled with desires and she can't think of anything else. You made the portal so late at night, so you must be in a hurry, right?" "Tell me, what trouble are you in now?"

The sorceress crossed her arms, holding up her full and straight chest.

"Your rationality is really admirable, Rita. I forgot that you are also an excellent college dean." Lan En said sarcastically.

He turned around and shouted to the Dragon Slayer, "Sachia, I got the stuff."

In the handbag that Margarita brought were the relief supplies that she had discussed with Lan En and Tishaya early in the morning.

The most important high-value assistance is a batch of Valyrian Steel Ingots and [Gorgon Vitality].

The effectiveness and value of [Big Eater Vitality] are of course self-evident, and since its birth, Valyrian steel has always been high in price and market demand due to its superb metal properties.

Now is a time of war, and it has become a hard currency that is very valuable.

Some places may not recognize orens, ducats, or dinars, but no place will not recognize Valyrian steel.

Even if there is a poor and remote person who doesn't know Valyrian steel yet, you can show him the performance of Valyrian steel and he will recognize it.

Therefore, it is very convenient to deliver it to the rebels as aid materials, whether they use it for themselves after reshaping or resell it as circulating goods.

In today's world where bank transfer systems that rely on dwarves have a high probability of being leaked, this thing is much more convenient than boxes of gold coins.

"I can see that." Margarita tightened the neckline of her pajamas and smiled, "You are indeed very busy tonight."

"I'll go back to the other side and wait until you're free."

Margarita placed her hand lightly on Lan's armor and stroked it gently.

"Don't worry, ma'am." Sakia called out from the side, "I will move him to a bigger room, where he will have the most spacious and comfortable bed in all of Vergen."

"Thank you, Sakia."

The sorceress smiled freely and generously, waved her hand, and walked back into the portal. After a flash, the blue light curtain in the door frame disappeared, revealing the masonry of the wall behind.

The portal is only open for a short time each time, and requires the input of chaos magic each time.

This means that apart from some magical items specially made to release chaos magic, only demon hunters and warlocks can open it.

Without further delay, Sakia and Lann immediately used [Big Eater Vitality] to rescue the rebels who did not realize how dangerous they were.

They mixed and used about five bottles of [Big Stomach Vitality] together, and then they kept complaining of hunger from midnight and started to eat more.

This situation is expected to continue for several days.

Everyone in the kitchen of Fujian was complaining, saying, "If you didn't know, you would think there was a famine here."

But at least these lives were saved.
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After tossing and turning all night, Lan En simply didn't sleep. With the help of the regulation of the strengthening organ [nerve knot], this level of fatigue seemed to have no effect on his brain.

After he gave the rebels medicine, he started to dissect the dragon turtle's body.

He found a lot of valuable alchemical materials in it, including the dragon turtle's throat and brain, blood, body fluids secreted from the surface of the body, and so on.

Since the Dragon Turtle is a dragon-like creature and is very powerful in comparison, it can basically be used as a giant dragon material.

This is a large amount of fresh and rare materials for Aretuza.

This can be considered as the first trading transaction between the Rebellion and Aretuza.

Aretuza supports the rebels, which is due to Lan's own inclination, the sympathy of the warlocks for the non-human race, and even the affection of Tishaya and Margarita for Lan. But these are just influencing factors.

The most important factor was the interests of the free city-state conceived by Lan, Sachia and Iorveth at the time.

Mutually beneficial relationships can last long and maintain mutual trust.

One-sided assistance and contribution is not advisable. This is true even for relationships between people, not to mention relationships between organizations.

After healing the wounded among the rebels, Sakia stored the supplies in Margarita's handbag in another warehouse in the city of Vergen to avoid placing the precious aid supplies together with the valuable fixed portal.

The lady's handbag was given to Lan En, to be returned to Margarita.

The space expansion pack was not too expensive for her, but the problem now was that the production capacity could not keep up. The space expansion packs given to Lan En, Flannel Ball, and Qilin were the result of secretly cutting in line in the reservation.

This resulted in the pickup time for people who made subsequent reservations being delayed by two or three years.

All they could say to the outside world was that an accident occurred while Aretuza was making the space expansion pack, which damaged the prestige of the Sorceress Academy.

So now, Margarita can no longer arrange the space expansion pack at will.

A few years ago, she said she was a little tired of this gliding lizard skin handbag because she had held it for too long and wanted to buy a new bag with this exaggerated reason. Now she is silent.

(End of this chapter)