Those "poems" are neither sounds nor words, but appear suddenly like some kind of "idea" that directly emerges in the mind. It is the direct infusion of information, which is beyond the several human senses. "Super experience", and for this "super experience"... Gawain is no stranger.
He is even very familiar with the verses themselves.
He has come into contact with the relics of the Settler more than once, and the first two times he came into contact were with the Eternal Slate. The first time, he learned the battle report of the ancient God-killing War from the information carried by the slate, and The second time, the information he got from the Eternal Slate were those weird and obscure "verses" with unclear meanings!
For a moment, he fixed his eyes on the glowing area at the base of Eternal Storm. He felt that there was something related to the Legacy of the Voyager that was connecting with him, and that thing I am afraid that he has been sleeping in the center of the storm for countless years. He tried hard to focus his attention and try to stabilize the vague connection. However, just when he was about to make some progress, Melita suddenly exclaimed. Fang came:
"Ah - how is this..."
Accompanied by this short exclamation, the dragon was trying to pass by the center of the storm at an oblique angle. Melita suddenly began to descend, as if she was suddenly pulled by some powerful force, and began to rush under the storm at a thrilling angle, toward the most violent, chaotic, and dangerous direction of the cyclone!
"Wow!!" Amber suddenly exclaimed, jumping more than one meter high, "What's going on, what's going on...Hey, don't fall down!!"
"I don't know! I can't control it!" Melita shouted in front. She was trying her best to maintain her flying posture, but some invisible force was still dragging her downwards. ——The powerful dragon seemed like a helpless bird in front of this force. In the blink of an eye, she dropped to a very dangerous height, "I can't help it! I can't control my balance... Everyone, hurry up! We are going to rush to the sea. ”
“That’s not what you said when you set out!” Amber jumped and shouted, then rushed to the nearest magic network terminal - she quickly pried She opened the cover of the equipment and pried out the recording crystal plate placed in the terminal base at an incredible speed. She cursed loudly while holding the crystal plate that stored data tightly in her hand. Then he turned around and rushed towards Gawain, shouting as he ran, "Help, help, help, help..."
Gawain stretched out his hand and tried to catch Amber, who was jumping towards him. From the corner of his eye, Then he saw that Veronica had opened her hands and was summoning powerful holy light to build protection and prepare to withstand the impact. He saw the wings of the giant dragon sweeping back in the storm, and the chaotic and violent air currents swept away the storm. Melita's crumbling protective barrier, while the continuous lightning intertwined into pieces in the distance, reflecting the dark outlines deep in the clouds, and also reflected some strange things in the direction of the eye of the storm.The scene——
The scene he saw in his normal field of vision ended abruptly.
A chaotic light and shadow rushed towards him, filling his sight like a fragmented mirror. With his visual and mental perception being severely disturbed at the same time, he could not distinguish the changes in the surrounding environment at all. He only felt as if he had passed through a "dividing line". This dividing line was like some kind of water curtain, with a cold touch that penetrated the soul. After crossing the dividing line, the whole world suddenly became quiet.
The feeling of falling at an extremely fast speed disappeared, as did the roaring storm, thunder, and the screams of Melita and Amber. Gawain felt that the surroundings became extremely silent, and even the space became empty. It seemed that it had stopped, and his disturbed vision began to gradually recover, and the light and shadow slowly pieced together a clear pattern.
A drowsy sea area appeared in front of him. There was a huge vortex in the center of the sea area. In the center of the vortex stood a weird, spire-like steel giant, with countless huge, shaped objects. Different figures are emerging from the surrounding seawater and air, as if they are besieging the "spire" protruding from the sea in the center of the whirlpool. Near the spire-like steel thing, there are countless flying dragon figures. The hovering guards seemed to be engaged in a desperate confrontation with the ferocious attackers.
And all of this is still.
The entire sea area, including the weird "tower", those besieging huge figures, those guarding flying dragons, even every wave on the sea, and every drop of water in the air, are still. In front of Gawain, a dark blue color, as if the color was out of balance, covered everything, making the place even more gloomy and weird.
After a brief two seconds of astonishment, Gawain suddenly reacted. He suddenly withdrew his gaze and looked at his side and feet.
Melita also stood still. She was still in mid-air as if she were an element in this large-scale static scene. Her body was also covered with a layer of dim color. Veronica was also still in place. , was maintaining the posture of opening her hands to summon the Holy Light, but there was no Holy Light surging around her, and Amber also remained still - she was even still in mid-air, maintaining the posture of jumping over here.
Gawain subconsciously turned his neck.
He found that he was not immobile, and was probably the only person here who could still move.
An unspeakable strange feeling came from all directions. Gawain took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down his nervous mood.
Then he looked up and saw that the entire sky was shrouded in a hemispherical "shell". The spherical shell hung high above his head like a fragmented mirror. Outside the spherical shell, You can see a large-scale cyclone in a stationary state. A storm and upside-down sea water are all frozen in the cyclone. And further away, you can also see lightning that seems to be embedded in the cloud wall—— Those electric lightsApparently still too.
This is the center of the eternal storm and the lowest level of the storm. This is a place that even dragons like Melita know nothing about...
This is where time and space stand still. Eye of the storm.
Gawain stood on the back of the still Melita, frowning and thinking for a long time. After realizing that this strange situation did not seem to disappear naturally, he felt that he needed to take the initiative. Do something.
Staying where you are will not change your situation. Although it is equally dangerous to act rashly, considering that it is impossible to expect rescue in this sea storm far away from civilized society, considering that this is a situation that even the Dragon Clan cannot With the eye of the storm that cannot be approached, taking proactive action is the only option at the moment.
He first confirmed the situation of Amber and Veronica, confirming that they were only in a static state and not damaged themselves. Then he pulled out the pioneer sword he carried with him, preparing to leave it for them. The following words - in case they suddenly gain the same ability to move freely as themselves, they can also know the general situation at the moment.
He hesitated for a long time about where to engrave the message, and finally he engraved the message on the dragon scales in front of Amber with a hint of apology - Melita would not care about this small thing. "According to the right of urgency", and she also expressed before departure that she did not mind if the "passengers" left some small "scratches" on her scales. Gawain thought about it seriously and felt that he was on her back. A few messages engraved on it should be regarded as "small scratches" for the huge dragon clan...
After doing all this, he exhaled and turned around to Melita's house. On the edge of the giant wing, after confirming the height of the sea below, he mobilized the strength in his body and jumped down.
As a legendary strongman, even if he is not a mage and does not know the flying spells of the mages, he can still temporarily stay in the air and land slowly to a certain extent, and Melita can reach the sea below. The space is not empty. There are some strange debris-like fragments floating nearby, which can serve as a springboard during the fall. Gawain uses this as a path to control the direction and speed of his fall. While stepping on the wreckage, he quickly came to the sea.
He stepped on the still sea, and immediately felt a wonderful touch under his feet - the seemingly solid water was not as "hard" as he imagined, but it was not as "hard" either. It was liquid like normal sea water, and it seemed to have some kind of strange "elasticity" when he stepped on it. Gawain felt that his feet were sinking slightly, but when he stepped hard on the ground, the sinking feeling disappeared.
He felt as if he was stepping on the ground as smoothly as he could.
"Strange..." Gawain whispered to himself, "There was indeed a moment of sinking and elasticity just now..."
There was no one around. Can respond to his soliloquy.
Gawain shook his head, took a deep breath again, raised his head and looked into the distance.
In the swirling sea area, the towering steel structure was standing in the center of his field of vision. From a distance, it looked like a strange-shaped mountain. It had obvious man-made traces, and its surface was made of tightly-sewn armor. Outside of the armor, there were Lots of raised structures of unknown purpose. When Gawain was watching this scene in mid-air, he didn't feel anything at all, but now when he looked at it from the sea, he realized how huge that thing was - it was larger than any ship ever built by the Cecil Empire. The ship is huge and taller than any tower ever built by mankind. Only part of its structure seems to be exposed above the sea, but just the exposed structure is already breathtaking.
Gawain couldn't help but look at the huge figures emerging from the sea and mid-air far and near, and at the "attackers" surrounding them in all directions.
Their shapes are all kinds of strange, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as grotesque. Some of them look like ferocious sea monsters with seven or eight heads, some look like giant beasts shaped by rocks and ice, and some even look like a ball of scorching flames and a wave of energy that is difficult to describe in words. Describing the shape of the air mass, Gawain even saw a vague humanoid outline a little further away from the "battlefield" - it looked like a giant holding a long sword, covered with stars and flowing fire. The intertwined shirt, the giant stepped on the waves, and the long sword was burning with flames like blood...
Gawain had already taken steps, facing the center of the whirlpool along the still sea. The "battlefield ruins" moved quickly, and the legendary knight's charge approached the speed of sound. He passed between the huge figures or floating wreckage like a phantom, while not forgetting to continue to observe every part of this strange "battlefield" detail.
Although the "attackers" who besieged the Maelstrom had all kinds of strange appearances, they all had extremely large bodies. In Gawain's impression, only the giant deer Amorn or the upper-level narrator Nari Only Tire Duarte's body had a similar shape, and as soon as this association emerged, he could no longer restrain his thoughts and continued to expand downwards——
These huge bodies Who is the "attacker"? Why do they gather here? Are they attacking the steel building in the center of the whirlpool? This place looks like a battlefield, but when was this battlefield? Everything here is in a state of stillness...how long has it been still, and who made it still?
Gawain got closer to the center of the whirlpool. The sea surface here had shown an obvious inclination. Twisted and solidified wreckage and illusory still flames were everywhere. He had to slow down to find a way to continue. As he slowed down, he also looked up at the sky, looking at the figures flying above the vortex, their wings covering the sky and the sun.
There is no doubt that those are dragons, hundreds or thousands of giant dragons.
They are circling and flying around the steel creation in the center of the vortex, using powerful breath and other various spells and weapons to fight against the enemies coming from all around.Surrounding the attack of those huge creatures, however, these dragons obviously have no advantage at all. The enemy has broken through their defense line. The steel creations under the desperate protection of the giant dragons have suffered serious damage. This is destined to be an unwinnable battle. The battle - although it is still here, Gawain can only see this moment of the stalemate between the two sides, but he can already judge the final outcome of this battle from the current scene.
…But the key is, is this battle over? Has the winner been decided yet?
Gawain's footsteps stopped - there were huge obstacles and still flames everywhere in front of him, and it became very difficult to find the way forward. He was no longer busy rushing, but looked around the solidified land. battlefield and start thinking.
If some kind of force intervenes to break the stagnation on this battlefield, will it start functioning again immediately? Will this war, which happened at an unknown time, continue immediately and determine the winner? Or... everything here will just disappear and become a forgotten historical cloud...
Gawain is not sure that everything he sees here is an "entity", he even He suspected that this was just a "silhouette" left by some kind of stagnant time and space. The timeline of this war had actually ended long ago. However, a certain scene on the battlefield was preserved by the abnormal space-time structure here. What he was witnessing was not The real battlefield is just an image left in time and space.
So...which guess is true?