Hearing Gawain's question, Beltira nodded. "Yes, just as I wrote in the report—and I still haven't figured out the source of those patterned signals."
Gawain frowned slightly.
What he and Beltira were discussing was something that had happened not long ago—about a week earlier, the Magic Web in the Sorin Region had completed regional networking. Several major cities on the Eastern Plains, which had previously relied on chains of relay towers for "linear links," had successfully realized grid-based distribution of energy and information. Sorinburg, as the regional hub, had its largest Magic Obelisk complete a mode conversion that very day, becoming the master hub of the whole area. The process itself went very smoothly, but afterward some puzzling "phenomena" occurred.
