The vast, boundless sea of clouds.
A gentle breeze rolled the white waves of cloud back and forth.
Though enormous, the Floating Aircraft Carrier was but a lone boat upon this white sea.
Rumble!
The sound of an explosion.
It abruptly rang out across the quiet, harmonious sea of clouds.
A streak of light burst through the Floating Aircraft Carrier, breaking free of the surrounding clouds like a Flying Slash that shattered the boundless tranquility of the sky.
"Roaaar~~~~~"
A deep beastly roar rumbled like thunder from the nine heavens.
The immense vibrations seemed amplified, tearing apart the Sky Cloud Sea's silence and making the endless expanse of clouds tremble uncontrollably.
High above the heavens.
The clouds suddenly thickened.
The clouds that had been white as snow just moments ago were now filled with dark storm clouds, as though some prehistoric beast lurked within them, hunting and waiting, oppressing everyone until they could barely breathe.
"Crack!!"
The dark clouds churned.
Dozens of Lightning Snakes that illuminated the sky tore across the heavens, raging, dancing, and hissing amid the storm clouds.
Amid the flashes of lightning and peals of thunder.
Within the rolling dark clouds at the edge of the cloud layer, a massive figure twisted and churned, its scales gleaming with a metallic luster beneath the lightning.
The enormous figure flickered in and out of sight within the storm clouds. One glance was enough to show that its full length could not be seen.
Crack!!
A blinding bolt of branching lightning turned the pitch-black clouds transparent.
Blue-white lightning lit up the sky.
The enormous figure churning within the storm clouds finally revealed its full form.
Its several-thousand-meter-long body bathed in lightning. Vast and slender like a colossal python, it was covered from head to tail in pink-blue scales, every one