"Are you real?"
The humanoid entity, seemingly composed of arcane energy, exclaimed in astonishment, and his outcry brought Gawain and everyone else's actions to a halt.
This being can speak! This being can communicate!
Gawain forcibly stopped the "Unbreakable Storm" he was about to unleash, holding his longsword alertly in front of him while staring at the Mana creature, and behind him, Tiel spread her hands, and a layer of misty water vapor enveloped the Mana creature — though its effect wasn't immediately clear, it was evidently a powerful magical effect because the electric light all over the creature dimmed by more than half.
"You can speak?!" Gawain asked in a low voice, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
