Hearing Gawain's words, Heti immediately showed a tense, worried expression. "Ancestor, this could be dangerous."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing—and this isn't the first time I've dealt with something like this," Gawain said, nodding at Heti. "There are some things I need to confirm."
Seeing the calm yet unquestionable look on her ancestor's face, Heti could only swallow the words in her heart and take a step back.
Camil nodded to Gawain, rose, and floated over to a control console beside the isolation wall, beginning to infuse magic power into the ancient runes.
Veronica held her platinum scepter and looked at Gawain with calm, deep eyes. "Can you tell us exactly what you want to confirm?"
"Three thousand years ago, The Fall of the White Star occurred, and the Nature God vanished from its divine throne. Around the same time, the Vepranton Meteor Shower struck the northern Gondor Empire, and countless 'fragments from beyond the heavens' fell to the earth... Yet for all these years, no one connected the two events, because scholars lacked both crucial evidence and any understanding of the secrets between gods and the stars," Gawain said unhurriedly, looking beyond the barrier. "Seven hundred years ago, I obtained one of the Vepranton 'meteorites.' It later became the widely known Guardian's Shield... During my exchanges with that piece of 'stellar legacy,' I glimpsed some ancient memories.
"The fall of the Nature God was connected to a collision outside the planet. The Vepranton Meteor Shower and the wreckage surrounding Amun the Giant Deer were products of that collision. And the most suspicious thing was... the entire collision had actually been intentional on Amun's part. That god... committed suicide."
As Gawain's words fell, even the ever-calm Veronica widened her eyes in an instant. Amber and Heti cried out