Chapter 904 — The Giant Tower
Blade of Dawn · Page 4 of 5
"After I asked these questions, an incomprehensible scene unfolded—the dragon lady, who had been perfectly normal a second before, suddenly widened her eyes, then seemed to fall into tremendous agony. She began to roar and snarl, all the while muttering words that were difficult to hear and impossible to understand. I caught only scattered fragments—she mentioned things like 'Reverse Tide,' 'thought deflection,' 'leakage.' Though I did not know what was happening, I knew that all of this was caused by my ill-timed questions. I tried to make amends, tried to soothe the dragon before me, but to no avail...
"After several minutes of chaos, she suddenly recovered... or at least appeared to recover. Her eyes regained clarity, and she looked around. What was deeply unsettling was that her gaze bypassed my position entirely the whole time. Until finally, she suddenly launched into the air and flew toward that distant continent with its blurred outline... She did not look at me even once.
"As though she had completely forgotten what had happened here, completely forgotten that she had brought me here! Even when I shouted after her, hurling arcane missiles into the sky, she did not glance back once!
"...Had she truly recovered?
"Tremendous unease surged in my heart. I awoke from my anticipation of returning home and realized I was still in a dangerous and uncanny environment. This place... there is something strange here. This tower, these dragons living in the far north, this ocean, this side of the Eternal Storm... there is something strange!"
Gao Xi slowly stopped. His brow furrowed little by little, and just like Mo Jin Wilde six hundred years ago, countless questions instantly surged into his mind, along with a faint, vague unease. From the written account, he could be entirely certain that Meitzen's state at the time had indeed been abnormal. That state irresistibly reminded him of the other party's reaction when he had asked her certain secrets about the gods—but after careful comparison, he felt it was not entirely the same. The "symptoms" Mo Jin recorded were clearly more severe, more dangerous!
Moreover, Mo Jin's record also mentioned that Meitzen had muttered words like "Reverse Tide" at the time. Such mutterings in a state of mental derangement... were also extremely abnormal!
With his brow furrowed, his fingers unconsciously tapping the table, Gao Qi found himself gripped by the same perplexity as Mo Jin:
That giant tower near Talund... what exactly was inside it?
It was clearly full of strangeness, and this strangeness... what connection did it have to the "Reverse Tide," to that "War of the Reverse Tide" from the ancient era?
With this question that could not be ignored, he continued reading on, and in the latter half of these notes, Mo Jin's bizarre experiences continued:
"...I am very worried about the dragon lady's condition, but I am powerless—Flight magic cannot catch up to a dragon in full wingbeat. She did not stop at all, already departing at full speed. I could only watch from afar the direction in which she disappeared, hoping nothing would happen to her.
"I returned to the refuge I had found on the 'island', carrying the supplies the other party had left behind. In this temporary dwelling, I could at least escape the maddening sound of the tides and the biting cold wind, and gain a little chance to think in peace.
"I opened the food and drink, and their appearance... was somewhat unexpected. I had never seen anything like them, and at first I was not even sure they were food—in size, they seemed intended for humans; the suspected foodstuffs were sealed in small metal boxes, tightly fitted without a single gap, their surfaces printed with gaudy, colorful patterns, while the water was contained in bottles that resembled some kind of soft 'crystal', yet were extraordinarily tough.