Under the unprecedentedly violent Calamity Wind, the Thousand Isles of the Endless Sea had been engulfed by turmoil.
Bad news came flying in like snowflakes.
Either some island had been eaten bare, or some city-state had suffered grievous losses, or terrifying battles had broken out between disaster beasts...
In eastern Central Earth, a newly hatched Annihilation Class Disaster Beast crossed the sea and came ashore. After devouring several villages, it had a fierce battle with the local disaster beasts, ending in a draw. Just as both sides turned back to recuperate and prepare to settle the score another day, it threatened the surrounding fuel-element production zones and was struck jointly by the Federation and the Empire, dying completely.
The land for a thousand li around it became a barren dead zone where not a blade of grass could grow.
In the Permafrost Zone north of the Endless Sea, the awakened North Sea Kraken had devoured every Disaster Beast across the White River Belt. Now Famished, it had begun showing signs of moving toward human population centers...
Meanwhile, in Huangzhou of the Federation, amid the endless snow, lay a vast charred expanse.
It was as if mountains had turned into corpses and the ocean had been dyed red with blood.
Flames and ash rose without end.
Federation bomber formations took off and landed in three shifts every day, carrying out large-scale bombing operations and reducing to ashes every area that showed signs of activation.
Signs of Leviathan's activation had been temporarily suppressed, but large numbers of wild beasts had begun gathering. The Military Department had established a defensive line on the snowfields and begun hunting and driving away every living thing that approached, ensuring that Leviathan remained in a state of deathly silence and could not revive.
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