Chapter 346: The Turn in the War
English Channel
Above the turbulent sea, gales howled and rain poured down.
Raindrops the size of beans fell with brazen force.
Only to be swallowed whole by the raging waves...
The rain merged into the ocean just like that, leaving behind not the slightest trace.
Crack—boom—
Deafening thunderclaps rang out one after another.
Bolts of lightning continuously bloomed between the seas of clouds like momentary fireworks.
They resembled trees covered in branching limbs. They also looked like rivers converging into one.
Their lower ends connected to the sea, while their smaller branches burrowed into the clouds.
This lightning was nothing like the rain.
The rain was swept into the sea without stirring the slightest ripple.
But when these bolts of lightning struck the ocean—
They were like bombs of immense yield.
They raised towering columns of water that made even the waves pale in comparison.
One could imagine the devastation they would cause if they struck land, buildings, or especially defensive fortifications.
Pop—
It sounded like the air had burst.
Yet amid this storm, it was like the raindrops described above merging into the sea.
It did not stir a single ripple.
Besides, the sky here flashed and thundered without end, each peal deafening.
Fortunately, the nearly unceasing lightning—
Its flickering radiance, like stage lights, illuminated this pitch-black world.
Within scenes that flashed by like slides—
A dark figure quietly appeared beneath the intermittently flashing sky.
As the view drew closer—
It was a young man in a tattered Wizard Robe, riding a pitch-black broomstick.
At that moment, he possessed none of a young man's vigor or vitality.
Instead, he looked like an office worker who had been pulling all-nighters for days.
His face was haggard, his clothes and hair plastered to his