The glowing silver dragon had no time to explain. Its entire body flew beneath the ship.
After a slight tremor, the cruise ship, which had still been falling, finally stopped its descent. Shade blocked part of the black thunderbolts from the sky and the attacks from the gradually awakening evil thing beneath the sea. With the pressure shared, the witches worked with Illustrious Miss and finally brought everyone slowly upward once more.
Last week in the waters of Moon Bay, Shade had been able to defeat the evil thing of the deep sea because it had been a projection and he had been in a state of "Divinity Overflow." At this moment, he was merely transformed in his ordinary form, while facing the evil thing's main body. Even using the motion of "tail-swinging" to unleash Adele's Regression Principle against the attacks, he was severely wounded by the tentacles and sonic attacks constantly coming from the depths of the ocean in merely a few dozen seconds.
On the ship's deck, Professor Evans, who was struggling to maintain the protective barrier, had also begun coughing blood. Illustrious Miss, pale from the ship's damage, could barely maintain the integrity of her manifested body.
Miss Teresa and Miss Maxim continued attacking the tentacles clinging to the deck, but compared to the ever-increasing number of tentacles, their efforts were no more than a drop in the bucket.
At that most critical moment, the witches, Shade, and Illustrious Miss all heard the final words bestowed upon them by the god—
"Children, believe in dreams!"
An abrupt heavenly light pierced the black sky amid the rain, illuminating the cruise ship held fast by hundreds of tentacles extending from the sea. Within that radiance came an earth-shaking howl from beneath the sea, and the pitch-black tentacles pulling at