The preparations before the great battle were oppressively stifling. Everyone was making preparations, and everyone was waiting. Even the people in the real world fell silent beneath this oppressive atmosphere.
At last, the Persian Gulf came into view on the horizon—and its current state struck directly at everyone's hearts.
As the BGM Absolute Demonic Front: Mesopotamia suddenly began to play, a terrifying pressure seemed to burst through the Light Screen's image and sweep across the entire world.
What they saw was the once-azure sea, now completely dyed a dark crimson. Faint white steam rose from it as though the water were scorching hot. The entire ocean seemed to have transformed into some other boiled liquid, seething and dangerous.
Dark clouds filled the sky. A terrifying pressure, accompanied by deep rolls of thunder, shrouded the land as if it were about to bring the most dreadful apocalypse upon the world.
Under such circumstances, they could see what seemed to be countless lives churning in the sea—boiling, shrieking, cackling madly, as though proclaiming the arrival of chaos to the world.
At the same time, Lahmu continuously crawled out of the sea and advanced inland like jubilant insects.
In these circumstances, Romani Archaman and the others at Chaldea used the communicator Fujimaru Tachibana carried to clearly investigate the situation in the sea. The rapidly rising figures and blaring alarms both proved just how dire things were.
Romani Archaman swallowed and shouted, "We've detected the presence of Tiamat. She's in the Persian Gulf ahead, approximately two kilometers from the shore."
"The magical energy readings inside her body..."
Looking at the numbers that continued to soar, he no longer knew what to say.
It was not merely that the readings kept rising beyond the limits of detection. The magical energy contained within Tiamat was also