Those "verses" were neither sounds nor words. They appeared suddenly like thoughts directly surfacing in his mind, a direct infusion of information, a "super-experience" beyond the range of human senses... and Gawain was no stranger to such a super-experience.
He was even quite familiar with the verses themselves.
He had encountered Voyager Legacy relics more than once. The first two had both been Eternal Stone Tablets. The first time, the information carried by the tablet had told him of battle reports from the ancient godslaying war. The second time, the information he received from the Eternal Stone Tablet had been those strange, obscure, incomprehensible "verses" just now!
In an instant, he fixed his gaze on the glowing region at the base of the Eternal Storm. He sensed that something connected to the Voyager Legacy was establishing contact with him there, and that thing had likely slumbered at the heart of the storm for countless years. He focused with all his might, trying to stabilize that faint, intermittent connection, but just as he was about to make progress, Melita's cry suddenly came from ahead:
"Ah—what's happening..."
Along with that short cry, the dragon that had been attempting to skim past the storm's center at an angle suddenly began to descend. It was as if some powerful force had seized Melita, dragging her into a perilous dive toward the bottom of the storm, toward the most violent, chaotic, and dangerous part of the cyclone!
"Waaah!!" Amber immediately cried out, leaping more than a meter into the air. "What's going on? What's going on... Hey, don't fall!!"
"I don't know! I can't control it!" Melita shouted from the front. She was doing everything she could to maintain her flight posture, but some invisible force kept dragging her downward—before it, the powerful dragon was