812 Ella The Ingredient

Lenny, with a decisive gesture, conjured a portal, stepping into it with a sense of purpose that was mirrored by Athena and Minnie's swift follow-through. 

Their destination was a realm within the Nether, a place where creatures bound by blood contracts to humans resided—a domain of dark deals and deeper despairs.

 Lenny's mission was clear: to find a creature that could facilitate their return to the eighth earth, a feat he had accomplished once before through the exploitation of a Nether creature's teleportation ability.

However, the landscape of the Nether had shifted, or perhaps Lenny's recollections were clouded by the tumultuous events that had followed. 

The creature he sought, the key to their passage back to reality, eluded him. Back then, finding a nether creature back to the eighth earth was actually very easy. But now, things were different for some reason.

Obviously, the times were different.