The sudden change made Gawain stunned for a while.

The vast, vivid landscape had settled in his vision, the momentary vertigo and trance had faded, all his senses and thinking faculties had returned to normal, the seascape at dusk, the sky hanging low in the distance, and the clouds overhead all slowly moving with Melita's flight. Suddenly, the dragon lowered its height a little more, and the sound of flapping wings sounded from both sides, causing Gawain to wake up from his stunned stunning.

He turned his head suddenly, and saw Amber's amber eyes glistening in the light of the approaching dusk, and she was looking excitedly at the sky and the sea in the distance, her face full of joy, as if she had not experienced the previous terrifying transformation.

Veronica also sat quietly not far away, looking like she was closing her eyes, as if she had been in that position since the beginning and had never changed.

Gawain raised his gaze and looked into the distance in the direction of Melita's tail, and he saw the magnificent wall of clouds - the barrier of the Eternal Storm had been left behind the dragon, although it was still spectacular from this distance, it was no longer as suffocating and oppressive as it was when it swooped down, it slowly moved away from Gawain's sight, and many details of the cloud wall's exterior were blurred in the dim light of the sky.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why don't you talk all of a sudden? Amber's voice suddenly sounded from the side, and her tone was full of confusion, "Still looking at that storm?" Didn't we just come out of there? ”

Gawain looked into Amber's eyes, trying to find even the slightest hint of disobedience on the other party's face, but he found nothing. Before the confusion on Amber's face became apparent, he withdrew his gaze and asked, seemingly casually, "Did we make it through the storm...... Looks like it's going well? ”

"Of course it went well," Amber nodded, "It's scary when she first rushes in, but Melita flies quite steadily, and it feels like fun after getting used to it......"

Gawain's brows furrowed slightly, and before he could continue to ask, Veronica, who was sitting next to him with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes: "Is there anything abnormal?" ”

"Do you remember how we made our way through the storm?" Gawain looked at Veronica and asked as he quietly pinched his thigh—although in a world of supernatural powers, pinching himself wasn't necessarily a way to verify whether he was dreaming or hallucinating, but he was a little relieved when the pain came.

Veronica didn't seem to notice Gawain's small movements, she only thought about it seriously after hearing the other party's question, and then nodded: "After breaking through the cloud wall, we flew in a dim cyclone full of discharge clouds, and the environment outside was very harsh, but Melita was not affected much. Amber looks excited all the way, and you've been watching the lightning and cyclones in the depths - nothing happens. After that, Melita bypassed the central area near the eye of the storm and passed through the cloud wall at the other end, and we came out safely. ”

"That's all?" Gawain couldn't help but confirm again, and after seeing Veronica's serious expression, he thought for a moment and asked, "Then after crossing the center of the storm, did I say or do anything?" ”

"You're continuing to observe the various phenomena in the cyclone, Amber has been talking a lot of nonsense, I'm resting, and Melita is flying in earnest."

Veronica said slowly with no expression on her face, and then she looked into Gawain's eyes and said in a serious tone: "So, what's wrong?" ”

Gawain didn't answer for a moment, just quietly scanned his surroundings - his gaze swept over a nearby dragon scale, which looked smooth and flat without scratches.

He remembered that he had left a handwriting on the scales, but the handwriting seemed to be gone.

"What I remember is not quite what you said......" he said casually, and then his gaze fell on a large magic web terminal not far away.

He remembered what had happened in the storm cyclone, and remembered Amber's first instinct to salvage the data when Melita's flight suddenly became unbalanced, and after a moment of thought, he strode over to the terminal of the magic net, bent down to open a metal cover at its base—a palm-sized crystal plate that was glowing a faint blue light appeared in front of him.

The storage crystal plate is still well inserted in the machine, and it doesn't look like anyone has taken it off.

Even if the nerves were thick, Amber realized that something might be wrong at this time, and she leaned over from behind and watched Gawain's actions curiously: "Hey, what did you find?" ”

“…… It would be nice if we had an audio and video recording of the whole process...... Preparations in this regard are still inadequate...... It comes down to limited technology. Gawain muttered with a little regret, what he said sounded a little inexplicable to Amber.

The magic net terminal has the function of recording images, after Melita lifted off, the device installed on the dragon's back in addition to collecting meteorological and magic data in the marine environment, it has indeed continued to collect images for a period of time, but the modern magic technology is not advanced enough after all, after approaching the eternal storm, the various equipment on Melita's back have lost their effect due to powerful interference, and the only magic network terminal that can record audio and video is naturally no exception.

So Gawain now has no way of going back to what happened from the data recorded by the device, and to be honest, based on the strange situation in front of him, he suspects that even if there is a camera device here that records Melita's journey through the storm, what is recorded in it may not be reliable......

Some mysterious force erased what had happened, and the only clue left seemed to be his own memory......

By now, he was even a little skeptical of his own memories - perhaps...... Was it true that nothing had happened at the time, as Amber and Veronica had said? All that he remembered was just a hallucination? Some kind of dream?

Gawain sighed and casually closed the metal cover on the base of the equipment, but when his fingers brushed the edge of the metal cover, he suddenly felt a small bump mark, and his movements subconsciously stopped.

He removed his finger and saw a small, inconspicuous mark on the edge of the cover, which looked like it had been pried by something sharp and hard, not the shape it had been designed to be.

It was a scar from being forcibly pried open by a dagger in an emergency.

At this moment, Amber's babbling voice came from the side again: "Oops, what's wrong?" Why is your expression so serious all of a sudden? ”

Gawain glanced up at Amber, and then at Veronica, who was casting a curious gaze not far away, and after a short silence and thought, he suddenly smiled and shook his head: "Don't worry, nothing happened." ”

Amber didn't understand the situation for a while: "Huh? ”

Gao Wen didn't explain anything, but suddenly reached out and pressed the hair of this dwarf winter melon, with some relief and praise: "You did a good job." ”

When Melita suddenly had an accident, Amber's first instinct was to run to rescue the data, regardless of life or death...... It would have been unimaginable for her years ago, and even now, Gawain still couldn't believe it was Amber's reaction, but she did—though she didn't seem to remember it anymore.

Amber was stunned to feel the touch in her head, looking at Gao Wen, who suddenly smiled like a relieved old father, her first reaction was whether a long-term high-altitude flight would have some adverse effects on the mental state of the elderly, but she didn't say the disrespectful words in her mind, but calmly accepted the other party's praise - although she couldn't figure out what was going on, Miss Amber had always been unwilling to take advantage of the cheap arrival.

Veronica, on the other side, was always quietly watching all this, her thoughts were obviously much deeper than Amber's, and she was vaguely aware that some "anomalies" that could only be detected by Gawain in the process of crossing the storm before, but she did not take the initiative to ask anything, but sent a hint of intent to ask with her eyes.

Gawain only shook his head slightly.

Veronica retracted her gaze and sat back down where she had rested, continuing to close her eyes and recuperate.

As the dragon continues to fly north, Melita is the most unidentified "person" on the scene as a guide and vehicle, and she doesn't seem to have much interest in what is happening on her back. She could already feel the cold wind of her hometown, she could already feel the breath of Talrond from the changes in the magnetic field and magical environment nearby, and under the attraction of the warm dragon's nest and the quest perks, Miss Blue Dragon let out a pleasant low roar, a little faster than before.

Night had fallen, and the stars were spreading over the endless ice, and in the dry and cloudless Arctic, the sky was clearly more brilliant than the continent.

Gawain could clearly feel that the speed and manner of this nightfall was different from that of the continents—they did not see exactly which direction the sun was setting, nor did they see the full change of sunset, and the night did not rise from the horizon, but more like ...... They rode on the back of a dragon and flew into the night.

Polar night in the Arctic – a phenomenon mentioned in Mordir's travelogues, as well as in various writings by scholars.

Under the cover of the night, Gawain seemed to suddenly regain a certain sense of "reality", he exhaled slightly, and looked at the sea in the distance - under the night sky, a hazy light had appeared on the sea in that direction, and it seemed that a large number of artificial lights illuminated the sea in the polar night, and in the depths of that hazy light, the outline of the land and the slightly raised arc like some kind of shield device could be faintly seen.

"We're coming!" Melita's slightly excited voice came from the front at this moment, "That's Talrond!"

"I'm going to keep lowering altitude—you're ready!"

Then, with Miss Dragon's thunderous roar, Gawain felt a slight jolt under his feet, and the picture in his field of vision tilted, and Melita began to adjust her flight attitude, starting to lose altitude in the night, and reaching the perfect balance of speed by making short dives—the silhouette of Tallrond became clearer and clearer in this rapid flight.

Amber was the first to run to the front, she stood in front of Melita's shoulder blades, stretched her neck to look at the continent that appeared on the sea in the distance, and let out an exaggerated exclamation: "Wow - I saw it!" I saw it! A continent! Tarlund, that's Tallund! ”

"The lights are brighter and denser than the Cecil Empire...... Even more than the Imperial Capital of the Gondor period," Veronica couldn't help but stand up, looking into the distance and exclaiming to Gawain, "Do you see anything like that dome?" That...... It seems to be a huge shield that actually envelops the entire continent?! ”

“…… The technological strength of the dragon clan obviously surpasses that of any country on the Loren continent," Gao Wen said in a deep voice, the scene he saw did not exceed his previous judgment of the dragon clan, "It is also reasonable - after all, they have existed in this world for so many years, and the several civilizations on the Loren continent have not affected the dragon clan, so they will naturally be more advanced than us......"

"Tallund will be an eye-opener for you!" Melita said happily, with a palpable pride in her tone - on this trip home, Miss Dragon seemed to have finally let go of her elegant and calm disguise as a high-ranking agent of the Mithril Vault, and she seemed to talk a lot more, and her personality became more lively, "I will show you around where I live, as well as our city and temple...... Of course, you have to hear what the gods have planned. But don't worry, there won't be any trouble, you're all guests of Tallund after all......"

Gawain replied casually, his attention was actually completely on the distant continent, and he didn't pay much attention to what Melita said.

He stared wide-open at the ancient land bathed in starlight and countless man-made lights, and a sense of anticipation and excitement about an imminent visit to an unknown place inevitably permeated his mind. He looked at the shimmering dome that was most likely some kind of super-advanced shield, at the lights of the cities on that land and the brilliance of the lights passing by at low altitudes, at the reflection of the clear and brilliant stars of the Arctic region on the sea near Tallund, at the white glaciers and undulating waves in the ocean glowing faintly in the night, at the sudden emergence of some kind of mass of flesh and blood like giant tentacles from the sky above Tallrond, licking and sweeping across the entire dragon kingdom, and watching countless pairs of eyes loom above the sea, staring at the entire continent with an indifferent and cold gaze......

A massive, twisted croaking of countless tentacles, limbs, eyes, and all sorts of other chaotic things appeared in Gawain's sight, like some kind of stitched monster beyond the limits of human intelligence, draped in a "cloak" made of starlight and flowing fire, and from the flesh came sword-wielding arms, the limbs of giant animals, chaotic flames, and flickering crystals, and it covered the entire sea in front of him like a curtain, and countless chain-like fine structures extended from its surface, Connected to the land of Talrond, there was also a chain that spread out of the darkness and extended to Melita's body.

Melita was flying forward with the joy of returning home with the chain in her senses.

Gawain gasped suddenly.

He blinked again, and the indescribable illusion was gone.

The clear and bright stars shine on Tallund, and in the quiet of the night, there is only a prosperous ancient country, and in the bright lights, it is the home of the dragon age.

"We're here!" Melita said happily, "I'm going to slow down one last time!" ”