The Ancient Thunder Eagle hovered high in the sky, casting a massive shadow with its wings and body.
Under Ani's lead, the Destiny Pendulum Wizards, donning moon-white robes, descended in an orderly fashion. Ronan slowly rose, stepping down from the Thunder Eagle's back one step at a time.
The Gobi Desert, full of wind roll grass, had a nearly dried-up small lake not far away, beyond which lay a stretch of greenish-yellow grassland and then a sparse patch of needle-leaf forest...
Ronan quietly gazed down at the land before him, his sapphire blue eyes behind the flowing Dawn Mask showing neither joy nor sorrow.
"Is it here?"
Ani nodded respectfully, without speaking, only raising his hand to silently point a direction to Ronan.
Threads of white light flowed from Ronan's eyes, weaving an eye-shaped pattern on his forehead.
Under the [Eye of Truth], he saw traces of a hidden rune formation in the void, its dense array of light lines vaguely outlining the shape of a portal.
