Interspecies Trader Chapter 1 – Incident

As soon as I arrived at my destination after using the gate, I was hit by a violent feeling of nausea.

"Urghhh…!"

It was bad enough that I almost fed the ground with my breakfast. I put my hands on my knees to recuperate with large breaths, the way I have been taught and practiced so many tis. This was weird. These were the symptoms felt after teleporting by soone inexperienced, sothing I hadn't been subjected to for many years now. Yet, I was a fully graduated – though recently – spatial mage. Teleportation was my thing. It was my bread and butter. I experienced it so many tis it was impossible to count the exact number.

Co to think of it, the air felt weird. I sniffed a few tis, only to realize that it slled different from anything I knew. Did so air mages create a weird spell and pollute the whole capital city?

I finally looked up after feeling slightly better. And was hit by another shock. Around

were only fields, small in size but extending in all directions. Slightly further away was a strange-looking isolated house, right next to a sort of… orange do? I looked up to follow the do, which I soon realized was made of ryl. Its size was gigantic, covering an area large enough to hold several cities. From where I was, I couldn't even see where it ended on the other side and could only guess its full length by considering its curvature.

In that sa direction, far into the distance, was a city-like area, full of buildings built in an architectural style I had never seen before, not even in books.

This was by no ans the capital city I knew about. A slight possibility passed through my mind, too terrible to acknowledge. I quickly tried to teleport to a place I knew, even if it were to cost

all my ryl. However, nothing happened. The coordinates couldn't be established. I couldn't feel any interference anywhere and, except for the low amount of ryl in the air, I couldn't sense anything abnormal.

There was only one possibility of what could have happened to .

"No… No… No way, no way, no way! This can't be happening! No, please no!"

I tried again and again, with different destinations in mind. Nothing worked. I was seemingly way out of range of any of the places I knew. Reality hit

like a hamr in the head.

I was the victim of a "gate incident