WHOOSH!

A violent hurricane began to rage, sweeping down toward the sea below!

The storm catastrophe had arrived!

RUMBLE!

The already turbulent sea began to boil completely at this moment.

An immense and terrifying whirlpool, several kilometers in diameter, materialized out of thin air at the center of the hurricane.

The vortex spun faster and faster.

Its scope grew larger and larger.

The surrounding seawater was madly sucked into it.

Then, before Raylo’s astonished eyes, an enormous, cyan tornado connecting the sea and sky shot upward!

The top of the tornado connected to the dark clouds in the sky.

Its bottom plunged deep into the churning ocean.

Dragon Absorption Water!

Endless seawater was forcibly sucked from the ocean by the terrifying tornado, drawn up ten thousand meters into the sky!

Swept away along with it was everything on the seabed.

Broken reefs, pulverized Coral, schools of fish, and all sorts of massive Sea Beasts.

Their bodies were helplessly caught in the terrifying suction of the tornado, where they were torn to shreds by the violent hurricane in mid-air, becoming a rain of flesh and blood.

This was a catastrophe in the truest sense of the word.

It was a devastating blow aimed at this entire stretch of sea.

Raylo stood on Astra’s back, silently watching the apocalyptic scene unfold before him.

His heart was filled with shock.

’This is the Power of a Catastrophe Level expert.’

’Every one of their movements is enough to easily change the Laws of a region.’

’Their whims can decide the life or death of countless beings.’

「A dozen minutes later.」

The water level in this area, spanning dozens of square kilometers, had dropped by nearly a thousand meters. In some places, the continental shelf on the seafloor was already visible.

Raylo discovered that the underwater terrain here was a basin. The shallower surrounding areas were only a few hundred meters deep, but the basin itself was extremely deep, plunging down over a thousand meters.

The Magic Submarine that stole the Flowing Wind Giant Dragon’s Dragon Egg had used the extreme depth here to block the dragon’s ability to sense the egg’s aura.

Finally, a Magic Submarine—entirely black, forged from metal, and shaped like a giant spindle—was forcibly sucked from the seabed into mid-air by the world-spanning tornado.

The submarine’s surface was covered with countless ugly gashes carved by the storm.

Clearly, it had exhausted all its strength trying to resist the catastrophe.

But in the end, it failed to escape.

"Found it!"

Airelia’s cyan eyes, filled with endless killing intent, instantly locked onto the Magic Submarine as it tumbled and struggled within the tornado.

Her massive, mountain-like draconic body shot forward.

A giant, cyan-scaled claw emerged from the storm, lunging for the submarine with a terrifying Power capable of tearing space itself.

CRUNCH!

A grating sound of twisting, breaking metal rang out.

The Magic Submarine—forged from a solid metal alloy and built to withstand the terrifying pressure ten thousand meters deep in the sea—was like a fragile toy made of tin foil in Airelia’s claw.

It was crushed in her grasp with ease.

Gripping the completely deformed submarine, Airelia’s colossal body traced a cyan arc through the sky, returning to the cracked mountain peak where she had been perched before.

BOOM!

She slammed the submarine in her grasp heavily onto the ground.

A huge, deep crater was smashed into the hard rock.

SMASH!

The Flowing Wind Giant Dragon Airelia’s massive claw slammed down on the twisted and deformed Magic Submarine.

Its solid metal hull shattered into countless pieces in an instant, like a fragile eggshell.

Innumerable fragments, mixed with murky seawater, flew in all directions.

Next, Airelia lifted her claw, turned the wrecked submarine upside down, and gave it a violent shake.

The contents spilled out from the submarine like beans from a pod.

CLATTER...

The first things to tumble out were dozens of dead bodies dressed in pirate attire.

Most of them were Low Tier Professionals. During the world-ending "Dragon Absorption Water" catastrophe, their fragile bodies couldn’t withstand the terrifying pressure and tearing forces, and they had long since been shaken to death inside the submarine.

Their corpses were bleeding from all seven orifices, a gruesome sight to behold.

However, amidst the pile of corpses, two people were still alive.

One was a burly, powerfully built man. He wore a suit of heavy Knight Heavy Armor covered in inscribed Defense Runes and clutched an equally massive War Axe in his hand.

Although his face was as pale as paper and a trickle of blood stained the corner of his mouth, his eyes still shone with a ferocious light, fearless of death.

A powerful aura, belonging to a Domain Level Knight, emanated from his body.

The other person was a somewhat slender, middle-aged man dressed in a black Mage Robe.

He clutched a Magic Staff inlaid with a large blue Gemstone. A faint, almost dissipated Magic Shield still flickered at its tip.

Evidently, during the catastrophe just now, it was he who had used his own Domain Power to barely protect himself and the Domain Knight, allowing them to survive by a stroke of luck.

He, too, was a Domain Level expert.