It seemed like after a long wait, the merchant took out a reply from the backpack connecting to the Inner World.
Only one of the two statues could communicate—the consciousness of the other had long vanished with the passage of time, leaving only instincts.
The questions and answers from the previous generation were translated by the [Linguist] and written on parchment bearing the City Hall emblem of Vena Ice-Free Port.
An exchange between the lives of two generations separated by millennia.
Puxiu thought romantically, gripping the chair and asked, "What did the previous generation respond?"
"It sensed outsiders entering the underground ruins. It couldn't fathom the connection to the Eternal Dreamer's prophecy, but it knew of an abyss."
That abyss is called the Bottom of Sugla by the previous generation, located at the end of the Great Rift Valley of Teated in the Duchy of Ktiras.