Fire!
Beneath the black sky, waves surged up and down as dozens of black storm tornadoes rampaged across the sea.
The flesh and blood of dragon beasts and marine creatures left behind after the previous battle had nearly stained the sea reddish-brown. Then, as the Dragon Devouring Order's sacrificial group used that flesh as the foundation for an enormous Ritual Matrix and cast a pitch-black stone statue along with a mass of jet-black flesh into the ocean, wild laughter rang out. An ancient, weathered bagpipe melody from the oldest abyss of the deep sea resounded across the entire waters.
After repeatedly causing massive chaos inside the city on the seventh day of each week, the harshest conditions for the summoning ritual had finally been fulfilled. The evil being whose main body was a seven-tailed stone statue buried deep beneath the sea, which had slumbered for unknown reasons since the end of the Fifth Epoch, was finally about to leave the deep sea once more and display its power to mortals.
Black water continuously surged from the seabed to the surface, dyeing the entire sea ink-black. The bagpipe music gradually grew louder, its strange melody filling everyone in the waters with inexplicable terror. Jagged rocks and coral reefs rose one after another amid a massive earthquake beneath the sea, like the palace of an Ancient One welcoming the arrival of an ancient evil a step ahead of time.
But the moment the first thick, stone pillar-like tentacle emerged from beneath the water, the Radiance Messenger, having crossed the sea to arrive, blasted it back into the ocean with a single shot.
Having reverted from a medium-sized cruise ship to her original form, the Radiance Messenger now glimmered indigo across her entire hull. Dragon scales covered the ship's surface, while enormous dragon