Ailanta's expression was solemn, as though she had been waiting for this opportunity. She immediately tossed the War Tablet in her hand toward the Twilight Dragon.
The golden tablet flew from her hand. After traveling several dozen meters, it abruptly stopped in midair, then slowly began to rotate. It turned clockwise by one hundred and eighty degrees, while the Gaia emblem at its center rotated counterclockwise. Then, with a soft click, it sank inward.
A full, gentle radiance surged from the sunken Gaia emblem. Everyone present witnessed a spectacle that seemed straight out of mythology: as though the dwarven god, Osolan the Steelforger, had drawn molten steel from the Eternal Forge before him and poured it into the grooves of the earth to forge the entire world. As golden-red lava flowed across the ground, they also saw lines radiating golden light extend along the tablet's engravings.
When the radiance touched the space beyond the tablet, it immediately spread outward, forming a pale-golden network. It was as though the Golden Book had suddenly expanded to more than a hundred times its original size. Each time the light expanded along the network and touched the void, it rapidly grew larger—three times in succession.
With a soft whoosh, a colossal ring-shaped magic array formed in an instant. It had three layers, each rotating slowly in a different direction.
The ring-shaped array took the golden tablet as its center. Seventeen runes appeared upon it, representing laws, elements, and magic.
Order.
Matter.
Energy.
The three great Existential Powers determined the foundation of Vonder's existence. According to the Azure Poem, they were the supreme authorities that Marsha had bestowed upon this world—the will behind the world's creation and the cornerstone of the Tiamat Law.
It was the Elemental Codex a'thro.
Bai stood frozen. This was a