It was nighttime, beneath a high-hanging full moon.
The location was some stretch of sea in the New World. Bright and Tesoro's ship raced across the waves, pulled by sea beasts.
Then, when something appeared on the sea ahead, the sea beasts suddenly grew restless, naturally slowing down.
This time, Bright did not urge the lazy sea beasts onward, because they had already reached their destination.
"Whoa! I'd heard about it before, but seeing it with my own eyes still makes my scalp tingle!"
Tesoro stood beside Bright, both hands clamped tightly around the ship's railings, nearly crushing the sturdy metal rails.
Bright understood his excitement perfectly, because what had appeared at the edge of their vision was truly something that inspired awe just by being seen.
It was an elephant.
An elephant walking across the sea, its legs submerged beneath the waves, its feet planted on the seabed, while its back reached into the heavens.
The elephant moved slowly, its steps infrequent, but every step stirred enormous waves across the sea, and each stride spanned kilometers.
It was a colossal beast as immense as a mountain range, holding up the sky.
"Not even Sea Kings are that big."
Bright could not help but sigh as well.
When people spoke of gigantic creatures, the first thing that usually came to mind was the Sea Kings dwelling in the deep ocean. They were enormous, lurking beneath the abyss, and every appearance near the coast brought a natural disaster.
Yet even Sea Kings like those were utterly insignificant before the Giant Elephant.
Even the largest Sea Kings were only around five or six thousand meters long. Before this elephant, they simply were not worth mentioning.
Bright knew very well that this Giant Elephant, Zunesha, stood twenty-seven thousand meters tall—twenty-seven kilometers.
Even seawater