Seraph smiled as he watched the various scenes from inside the heart of his garden. Scattered around the garden were a number of students, all of them having stumbled across the garden and, out of curiosity, touched one of the flowers. That touch had triggered the spell, and while the outer ring of flowers were harmless those student's quickly discovered that the deeper they went the more impressive the spells contained within the flowers became. Eventually they would cross over the unseen line that marked the border of the outer and middle rings, and once they touched the flowers there the real entertainment began. Every one of the girls were in various forms of ecstasy as magical plants followed a mix of their own nature, and Seraph's will.

Ever since the mercenary Rahs had come here and navigated his way through the garden Seraph had been refining the spells, channeling more power into the individual flowers. Of course a side effect of that was the garden itself seeped more mana into the forest around it. A trail of power that could lead anyone inside the forest with mana detection to the garden.

The garden itself was still ringed with a vine made of pure flame, a burning red line that snaked it's way around a fairly small clearing in the forest. But once someone stepped over that vine they would find themselves in a garden forged from pure magic. Thousands of flowers spread out as far as the eye could see, and multiple paths snaked their way through the flowers. It was obvious that the vine of fire contained a 'pocket dimension', and space and distance were warped inside them.

After a fruitful day of hunting the innocent young students that populated the island Rein and her beastly, two headed bodyguard were walking through the forest surrounding the campus planning the next days "activities" when Rein sensed an unbelieveable amount of mana seeping into the forest. And what intrested the princess the most was that it all seemed to be coming from one small clearing...

After walking for a few minutes they came upon a vine which looked to be made of pure flame. Looking the magical wall up and down Rein looked up at her bodyguards and said "Don't touch it. This will burn anything to a crisp." Their limited intelligence mezmorized by the flames they reached a large finger out, touching the vine and quickly pulling back with a loud "Ow." Sighing, Rein said "Didn't I just tell you not to touch it? I'll go in and see if I can find the creator of this magic."

"But who will protect you?" Alteisen asked her, looking down at the petite princess with concern. With a slightly annoyed tone in her voice she asked him "Do you really think I need to be protected all the time? Besides if its a magic user I am much better suited to deal with them anyways so wait here." And allowing no more words of argument Rein stepped towards the wall opening a door large enough for her with her magic and stepping in, leaving the vine of fire to close behind her as she entered the unknown dimension...

One of the changes Seraph had made was to the vine that guarded the boundry. To a invited guest, or a student, it was simply a simmering line of fire running along the ground. To another monster however it became a wall of flame that would badly burn anything that came into contact with it.

Seraph had stopped paying attention to the vine when it flared up into it's wall form, however when he felt something influence it that all changed. He stopped paying attention to the various student's he had trapped, and instead focused on the area of the vine that a monster had passed through.

Looking at the figure that had stepped through Seraph felt a slight smile spread across his face. Even from here he could feel that she had mana, well her getting past the vine of fire proved that. For her part the moment she stepped into the garden she would feel a sudden surge of power all around her. The garden was a magical enviroment, and as such the air was heavily saturated with mana. Since she wasn't human it was possible that the amount of power in the air wouldn't be as overwhelming as it was to students, but one never knew.

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The area of the garden she had stepped into was fairly simple and basic. As part of the outer ring nothing inside it was harmful or dangerous, simply light amusments and party tricks. The enviroment around her was a path that branched off into three directions, one going deeper into the garden, and one going to each side. From theses paths more branched out, and surrounding them were hundreds of flowers of all manner of shape, colour and appearance. Anyone with mana sight would be able to see that each flower was magical, and that if a flower was touched the spell inside it would be released.

The paths were designed and structured so that every single flower was within reach of someone on a path, and to make it even easier stepping stones spread out from every path to allow someone to access flowers that were hard to reach easily and without activating anything accidentally. That layout continued as far as the eye could see, despite the fact the clearing the vine was in was only around 20 feet wide.

After stepping through the wall of fire into the unknown being's dimension Rein was surprised to find herself standing in a garden filled with hundreds of flowers of different shapes and colors spreading out in every direction. It only took a moment of her looking around to notice each and every flower in the "garden" was magical with some having some very entertaining effects to those foolish enough to touch them.

Not in the mood to fall victim to the whims of some random entities toy flowers Rein moved down one of the paths to the garden's deeper reaches in an attempt to find this dimension's owner. As she walked confidently into another being's territory she said to herself "A garden hmm? At least whoever this place belongs to has some sense of taste....Although the magical "flowers" are a bit juvenile for my taste."

If the garden's master was watching it was clearly evident that the horned woman intruding in his domain had no qualms about speaking her mind, and even in the mana oversaturated air that was prevalent throughout the entire "pocket dimension" she seemed to have no problems adjusting to the cross between dimensions.