World's End and the Encirclement

Rumble...

Creak... creak...

A storm fierce enough to nearly drown the sea raged in the sky, so violent it made one question life itself. Black-as-ink seawater turned into endless mountain peaks, soaring high before plunging down.

The sky had become another sea, while the sea itself had become an abyss leading straight to hell. The Theseus was hurled brutally upward and smashed heavily down again, as though it might be swallowed at any moment by the terrifying monster known as the sea.

Though this struggle between man and nature had lasted only two hours, it felt endless, as if it would not stop until one side had completely fallen!

"Mr. Jerros, are you sure we should keep trying to break out? Why don't we hide in the Sorcery Garden for now? This storm might pass at any time."

The scene outside reminded Evan of the terror he had felt when he had first entered the sea, when he had been ruled by the storms of the Black Sea.

Yet the ship beneath his feet was a Legendary Battleship that had already undergone an Extraordinary Transformation. Compared to it, the terrible weather on the Black Sea had been little more than a joke, like a wave pool.

The difference between the crests and troughs of the waves on the sea had already approached forty meters. Everywhere resembled the supernatural disaster known as a Decapitation Wave!

Even a first-rate battleship, representing the greatest power of humanity's Secular World, would be snapped easily here like a frail straw. Then it would be handed a one-way ticket straight to the seabed by the dark wave troughs, vanishing completely amid the waves.

"No, we'd better not. We can hide inside the Sorcery Garden, but the vessel anchoring the garden is still outside.

"If, while we're