The nearest portal to the next layer is heavily guarded by devils, though seeing him alone, they let him through, having been passed word of his coming, from no less than Bel himself. No devil was going to argue with the Archduke of the First, not if he didn't want to be demoted as far as possible.<br/><br/>Once on Dis, he'll find he can teleport across it easily enough, and arrives in the Iron City shortly thereafter, allowed into the Tower, and escorted into Dispater's presence. "Draiss, a pleasure to see you, again. I do apologize; I suspect our demon protections on the lower layers have recognized you, and are preventing you from shifting directly here. After all, it wouldn't do us much good, if we had to fight them wherever they chose, would it?"