The platform remained quiet for several seconds after the movement below the slope. Noel stood with Revenant Fang angled loosely at his side while the teleportation circle behind him continued engraving itself into the stone. Thin lines of mana burned slowly through the mountain rock as the anchor synchronized with the circle waiting in Valon. The process was steady, but not fast.
Another sound rolled through the ravine, heavy enough that the vibration reached the platform again. Rock shifted somewhere below the narrow approach, and dust slid down the slope in thin streams, scattering into the darkness between the cliffs. What followed was not a growl or any natural roar. It began as a low electrical crack, like distant lightning building inside thick clouds.
Noel's eyes narrowed slightly.
