A Golden Gate.
Soren's mind raced as he stared at the shimmering portal, his heart pounding despite his best efforts to remain calm.
Golden Gates were anomalies within anomalies, phenomena so rare that most hunters went their entire careers without encountering one. They appeared without warning or pattern, manifesting both as independent gates in the outside world and, more commonly, as spontaneous rifts within existing gates. The academic community had spent decades studying them, yet their origin remained a mystery wrapped in speculation and incomplete data.
What wasn't a mystery, however, was what lay beyond that golden threshold.
Treasure.
