Storm Eye, Bottomless Sea Abyss—it was the center of the Storm Ocean. A massive void lay across the seafloor, and any vessel that approached would be dragged in. No living thing that entered the Storm Eye had ever returned.
It was also the heart of the storms. Every storm across the entire ocean began there, then gathered and grew at sea, sweeping across the whole expanse of water.
That was how the Storm Ocean got its name.
Jeremiah and Ken exchanged a glance, each seeing the shock in the other's eyes. The sea was drying up day by day, and parts of the original seafloor were even beginning to emerge. Could this be related to the Storm Eye?
An island had been dug away, leaving behind a hollow. The sea was gradually drying up...
The two of them swallowed at the same time as an absurd thought surfaced in their minds.
Could it be... that the seawater had "leaked" down through that empty hole?
And if it really had leaked down, where had it gone?
French Fries: "...Ms. Scepter, the current situation really does resemble what you described, but why isn't it a recurrence of the anomaly from back then? Why did Castel travel into the past instead?"
Scepter fell silent for a while this time before slowly speaking. Her voice carried a rare trace of hesitation:
"Actually, this is what the Sea God Church claims... Of course, they're now nothing but a group of cultists, so they aren't trustworthy, but..."
Scepter: "They seem to be planning to revive the Sea God. But an evil god cannot be resurrected, so they wanted to gather enough power and return to the time before the Sea God died, in order to help..."
Theus, seated on the seafloor, shuddered all over. Had he