A few months later, in the Storm Kingdom—one of the Five Sea Kingdoms within the Greenwave Sea, the second of the Seven Great Seas—a Tier 2 warship with a dark golden sheen was gliding steadily across the calm ocean.
The sea was still as glass, the sky clear and cloudless. Everything looked peaceful.
But then, without warning, the water erupted.
A massive Kirin burst from the depths with overwhelming force, like a divine beast descending from the heavens. Its presence was awe-inspiring, its momentum unstoppable, as it charged straight toward the dark-gold Tier 2 warship!
Whoooosh!
A deafening roar split the air. A colossal tsunami, thousands of feet high, surged up behind the Kirin like a wall of doom, blotting out the sun as it thundered forward, ready to swallow the ship whole.
It looked like the sea itself had risen to devour them.
