Chapter 270: 269 - Hog

Their words stayed in Ryan's head for the rest of the day, imagining that there was an answer to the portals was something he still didn't know how to deal with.

< The incidents of red portals increased after the guild started stockpiling spells > Nyx said, she was thinking the same thing as Ryan.

Lying on the temporary bed that Envy had given him, the boy had both eyes wide open as he tried to understand everything he had heard. 

"The Guild is using ancient spells to contain that cube, and the very fact of stocking the portals to collect its energy was enough to hamper the Raids' levels and create an impact," he thought.

As his eyes slowly closed, the memories of the mutilated bodies he had seen during the raid returned to his mind. The only thing he could think of was how the others had coped with facing so many deaths of allies, the heartbreak of thinking about cases like Roy's or Ezra's caused a kind of flame to rise inside his chest.