Ark City—though it should probably be called the Floating City now—had yet to recover from the upheaval that had turned the world upside down when its residents witnessed the thousand-meter-high monstrous waves. These ignorant inhabitants, who had lived in isolation aboard their spaceship for over a thousand years, had no idea what was happening. The grandeur of nature, the boundless world outside, the empty, chaotic sky, and the vast, endless sea were all things impossible to imagine within the once-sealed ark. In just a few short hours, they had witnessed a cataclysm their ancestors had never even described to them. Thus, when the giant wolf surged toward them, everyone outside the Floating City was plunged into overwhelming fear and panic. Countless people believed the Sea of Aeolus was the legendary "Sea of Erdos" when they saw it, despite having no idea what a real ocean looked like, while the surging waves were mistaken for the monsters said to devour heaven and earth. The residents at the edge of the Floating City fell into utter chaos for a time.
But when the waves suddenly vanished, a vast expanse of strange green things drifted into view, and an indescribably powerful being, as imposing as a god, rose from the waves and looked down upon all living things, that chaos and terror transformed into immense awe.
Meanwhile, on the sea beside the Giant Turtle Rock Platform, Hao Ren froze after hearing Eva's thoughts. He had never expected that this innocent spirit of the sea had suddenly left simply to find food for the people aboard the ark. After hearing Hao Ren say that "they need food," she had firmly remembered it, then made the simplest and most direct response: bringing the food she knew of and could gather most easily before this group