My soul felt swollen. I was aching and in pain, and Barry hadn’t helped matters by touching the portal. The wound in my soul felt feverish and infected now, and I was thinking about closing it whether or not people were ready to see it happen. But… there was a benefit that I was seeing right away. People had been fighting almost since the second person made it through the portal. When the Mages got going, throwing power every which way, I started seeing benefits from it that I hadn’t even been able to achieve in the deepest layers of my dungeon. Every bit of the used Mana was absorbed into the
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