Divine Little One: Kanna of the Realm / When Away from Home, Check the Weather Forecast...

As everyone prepared for the coming battle, a burst of crackling static came through their earpieces, followed by a cool voice.

"Is that Kal'tsit? It's me, Skadi."

"This is Kal'tsit."

"Your current position is very dangerous. I recommend an immediate retreat."

"We can't retreat. The entire town's population is behind us."

After a moment of silence—

"Then wait for me. I'll be there in three hours at most."

With that, Skadi hung up on the other end.

"Looks like we have reinforcements." Kal'tsit waved the communicator in her hand.

"But will Skadi really be all right?" Kanna had not forgotten Skadi's background.

"Of course. Skadi came inland to avoid those monsters, but don't forget that she is an Abyssal Hunter from Sargon, someone specifically created to deal with deep-sea monsters. When she can't avoid them, her sword is not merely for display."

Unexpected reinforcements had arrived, and Kal'tsit's expression relaxed considerably. She sat down on the ground nearby and beckoned to Kanna.

"You should rest first. Tomorrow morning will depend entirely on you."

Section 125: Chapter 118 — Divine Hatchling: Kanna

Kanna tilted her head and thought about it. After everything that had happened, she was rather excited, but there was a huge monster advancing outside, and Kal'tsit could still sleep? The old lynx truly had an excellent mindset.

Still, Kal'tsit was right. Tomorrow would be a major battle, so she needed to rest and recover properly.

She found the lighthouse keeper and chattered away at him. After listening, he nodded. "Go rest. When you wake up, the things you need will be delivered right in front of you."

Kal'tsit glanced at Kanna. Though she had no idea what Kanna was up to again, the fact that she still had the mood to play meant the situation was not too serious.

Kanna walked over to Kal'tsit, took the sleeping bag she handed over, burrowed inside, and fell asleep less than two minutes after closing her eyes.

Kal'tsit shook her head at the sight. No matter how powerful she was, she was still a child by age. The ability to fall asleep whenever she wanted was truly enviable.

"Kanna likes to mess around with all sorts of nonsense. If she asked you for anything just now, you don't need to prepare it. I think she's simply in the mood to play again."

Kal'tsit said this to the lighthouse keeper, who stood by the lighthouse, watching Rock Bay Town while communicating with Ilena below through his earpiece.

The lighthouse keeper shook his head. "According to your plan, the danger Kanna will face tomorrow will be countless times greater than ours. She only asked for some trivial, worthless little trinkets. Even if she asked for this old life of mine, I would hand it over without hesitation."

Seeing this, Kal'tsit could not press the matter further. She merely tucked Kanna's upper body, which had wriggled halfway out of the sleeping bag in her sleep, back inside.

When Kanna woke up, she saw several more people on the tower. By then, even ordinary people standing atop the tower could vaguely make out the Great Beast's silhouette in the sea.

Inside the temporary command post atop the lighthouse, Ilena, as the Inquisitor, naturally took command.

"Dona, take this group of temporarily organized able-bodied civilians and gather by the monastery. If Kanna fails to stop that Great Beast, I will immediately fire a red flare, and the lighthouse will sound the highest-level Catastrophe alarm. At that point, lead these people in organizing the town residents' evacuation.

"We will use the lighthouse as our stronghold and establish defensive lines around it to cover your actions."

Dona's voice came through the earpiece. "No problem. We'll be ready to receive them on this side."

"Ms. Kal'tsit, Ms. Skadi, first, thank you and Kanna for your aid to Iberia. If things become impossible, I will open a route for you and give you a chance to leave safely."

After seeing the Great Beast's figure, Ilena was not optimistic about Kanna being able to halt its advance. Thus, she had prepared for the worst.

Skadi shook her head. "First of all, although I have never seen Kanna fight, I trust my companion and Kal'tsit's judgment. If necessary, I also have a way to lure away at least two-thirds of the enemy."

Watching the Sea Creatures continuously surface in the ocean, Skadi stroked her greatsword, her gaze icy.

"Hello, Skadi!" Kanna greeted Skadi after crawling out of her sleeping bag.

"Good morning, Kanna." Skadi nodded.

Kanna looked around. Ilena had also arrived at the lighthouse, and besides her, there was a resolute middle-aged Liberi man in a police uniform.

"There's no need to be so pessimistic. Didn't the Saint send word? Three Inquisitor squads, five National Defense Army units, and two Punishment Army legions near Rock Bay Town are converging here. As long as we hold back the enemy, our comrades will keep coming," the lighthouse keeper said when he noticed the low spirits atop the tower.

"Grandpa, did you prepare the things I asked for?" Hearing the lighthouse keeper speak, Kanna remembered what she had requested before going to sleep.

"Of course. Right over there!" The lighthouse keeper pointed to a table not far away. A large sheet of white cloth lay on it, alongside a box of red dye.

Kanna first looked outside. The Great Beast had already approached within three kilometers, and part of its body had begun to emerge from the water.

She nodded and calmly walked over to the white cloth. She pondered it for a while, then picked up the brush beside it.

She first wrote the four Yanese characters for "Raise the dead and restore bones" in the upper-left corner of the cloth. Then she remembered that she did not seem capable of doing that and was about to cross them out when she suddenly realized that while she could not do it, her ability could!

With that thought, she kept the four characters.

Next, she wrote the two small characters for "Relieve suffering" at the front of the cloth's center, then wrote "Hungry belly" near the four-fifths mark at the end.

After finishing, she nodded in satisfaction, quite pleased with her dog-scratch calligraphy.

Kal'tsit walked over and took a glance. She was the only one here who recognized Yanese characters, and she also wanted to see what mischief the little girl was making this time.

"Raise the dead and restore bones, relieve suffering... ward off calamity?" Kal'tsit narrowed her eyes, inwardly confirming that Kanna must have an unusual connection with Yan.

After all, merely knowing Yanese characters was not enough to write something like this without sufficient cultural knowledge.

Although she had written two characters incorrectly, knowing Kanna, Kal'tsit believed she had most likely done it deliberately.

Kanna found an iron rod and turned the word-covered white cloth into a flag. Then she carried it and jumped onto the railing.

"Kal'tsit, should we start now?"

"How long will that move of yours take?"

"Dunno. But last time, from when I used it to when it actually happened, it took about half an hour." Kanna recalled the previous situation.

Kal'tsit looked out at the sea, calculated the distance between both sides, and nodded. "Then we can begin."

"Got it!"

Kanna unfurled the flag in her hand and pointed it at the sky.

"Mommy mommy boom, I'm gonna fool you. Six Ding, Six Jia, Five Directions Guardians, swiftly heed my command! Lord of Thunder, Mother of Lightning, come heed my summons! Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, obey my decree! Lightning shatter the heavens, thunder shake the Nine Provinces! Summon wind and rain, command thunder and lightning! Wind and thunder, obey the law! Spell, reveal your divine spirit! Heavenly Gate, open for me!"

After Kanna chattered away, the sky darkened several shades further.

Kanna's little face had turned bright red. It was her first time deliberately controlling the location and range of Prayer for Rain.

The system kept emitting a series of beeps.

At last, she condensed Prayer for Rain into an area centered above the Great Beast three kilometers away, with a radius of just over three kilometers.

That way, even if rain poured down like last time, it would only reach the edge of the coastline and would not greatly affect Rock Bay Town by the sea.

Only after finishing the "casting" did she have the energy to look at her system. She had no idea what it had been beeping about all that time.

Section 126: Chapter 119 — When Traveling, Check the Weather Forecast More Often

Beginning skill release: Prayer for Rain

Caster has activated adjustment mode. Adjustment beginning.

Adjustment complete. Would you like to add an additional unit of energy to activate the special effects template?

Caster has not responded. Special effects template activated automatically.

Energy infusion beginning. Selecting template effect.

Caster has not responded. Beginning random effect selection.

System intervenes in random selection — In the Name of Thunder.

This random effect is "Thunderstorm."

Thunderstorm: Area-type Catastrophe forcibly converted into a thunderstorm. The thunderstorm will indiscriminately strike all life forms within the Catastrophe area with lightning until the Catastrophe ends.

Catastrophe duration: 24 hours...

After reading the long string of information the system had suddenly displayed, Kanna stared outside with a bewildered expression.

"What is it?" Kal'tsit asked upon noticing something was wrong with Kanna. Kanna's ability was indispensable for stopping the Great Beast this time. Kal'tsit needed to recalculate for any mistake in order to find the path to victory.

Kanna rubbed her dragon horns in frustration.

"Uh... how should I put it? I've used it too little—this is only the second time—so there was a tiny little error. But don't panic. It's probably developing in a good direction. Just remember, no matter what happens, do not enter that area."

Clouds began gathering outside. Before the darkness had faded and before the sun had risen, everyone saw strange, vividly colored clouds appearing in the sky.

Kal'tsit, Ilena, and the lighthouse keeper all recognized those clouds. Though beautiful in appearance, beneath that beauty lay endless terror, death, and separation.

"Gasp! Catastrophe Clouds!" Even the worldly lighthouse keeper had not expected Catastrophe Clouds to appear so close overhead. Thinking of the Catastrophe about to befall Rock Bay Town, he became extremely anxious.

The clouds overhead gathered faster and faster, lowering as they did. Even standing within the "safe zone," with Kanna and Kal'tsit guaranteeing that the terror brewing within those clouds would not descend upon them, everyone still felt their hearts pound.

Ilena watched Kanna standing openly on the balcony, curiously staring at the clouds streaked with lightning. Suddenly, she recalled the scene of Kal'tsit looking up at the sky earlier. Only now did she understand the meaning of Kal'tsit's words then.

At the same time, the ocean was boiling with activity. Sea Creatures were not mindless animals, and they naturally noticed the abnormality overhead.

Yet after a brief pause, they chose to continue forward, because to them, it seemed to be a sign of an approaching torrential rainstorm.

As creatures of the sea, heavy rain would not pose even the slightest obstacle to them. Instead, it would provide the best cover for their assault on land.

The bitter consequence of that mistaken decision would be swallowed by the Sea Creatures themselves.

Kal'tsit, who had been watching the sea, noticed their abnormal behavior.

"They're accelerating! Notify everyone to prepare. The enemy will reach the shoreline half an hour earlier than expected!" In that brief instant, Kal'tsit calculated the exact time of their arrival.

Kanna watched the Great Beast's back, which was covered in all sorts of bizarre, gaudy Sea Creatures. They apparently intended to use the Great Beast as a landing craft and launch a beach assault directly against Rock Bay Town.

As Kanna stared strangely at both the effects of her spell and the tightly packed mass of monsters across from her, the sound of running nearby snapped her out of it.

After looking around, Kanna walked to Kal'tsit's luggage and pulled out two pairs of sunglasses. They were souvenirs Kanna had bought in Siracusa.

She handed one pair to Kal'tsit.

Kal'tsit looked at Kanna, waiting for an explanation.

"Didn't I say there was a tiny problem with the spell? At first, I thought it wouldn't be too serious. But just now, I saw how tightly packed they were over there, and I felt that maybe, probably, perhaps, it might be a tiny bit better than I imagined. Put on the sunglasses. You won't regret it."

Kal'tsit did not immediately put on the sunglasses. Instead, she glanced at Kanna, then immediately activated her earpiece. "Ilena, pay attention. Order the troops to face away from the sea, then arrange for people to prepare sunglasses immediately."

Downstairs, Ilena, who was deploying defenses, nearly stumbled upon hearing Kal'tsit's words. What kind of absurd mission was that?

Still, as an Inquisitor, she was accustomed to following her superior's orders. No matter how ridiculous that order looked, she complied. With doubt in her heart, she looked to the captain of the guard beside her. The man wore a conflicted expression as he summoned a subordinate and ordered him to temporarily requisition every pair of sunglasses from the nearest optical shop.

After speaking upstairs, Kal'tsit tossed the sunglasses in her hand to Skadi.

"Once the battle begins, I will remain inside the tower with the medical team. The fighting outside will be left to you."

Skadi caught the sunglasses and nodded. She hoisted her greatsword and headed downstairs. She was not a commander, nor was she skilled at command. As a spearhead, the only thing she could do was stand at the very front of the Sea Creatures' path of attack.

Twenty minutes later, every guard participating in the defense stared blankly at the sunglasses handed to them.

It was not even light out yet, and only the lighthouse illumination made this area somewhat visible. Yet their superiors were ordering everyone to wear sunglasses. Were they supposed to fight an unknown enemy blind?

But a few minutes later, they all praised their commander's incomparably wise decision in their hearts.

On the rooftop, Kanna looked at the clouds outside, which seemed almost connected to the sea, and said, "It's about time. Kal'tsit, you'd better turn around and not look at the ocean."

Hearing Kanna's words, Kal'tsit walked straight down from the lighthouse without the slightest hesitation. Only Kanna and the lighthouse keeper remained atop it, both wearing sunglasses as they watched the sea.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning split the sky, descending from above as if to bind the ocean and heavens tightly together.

That bolt was like the sound of a charge horn. The next second, amid everyone's stunned, involuntary gasps of "Holy shit," countless lightning bolts, like electric serpents pouring down from the heavens, densely crashed into the sea.

Lightning was terrifying because by the time you saw it, it had already embraced you tightly. The countless Sea Creatures standing atop the Great Beast became the first to experience that embrace.

Countless lightning bolts intertwined and converged, forming a massive pillar of electricity nearly as thick as the Great Beast's body as it descended from the sky.

Not even the booming thunder could drown out the Great Beast's miserable wail. In an instant, its entire back was reduced to charred black carbon. The lucky Sea Creatures on its body left behind fragments of bone, while the unlucky ones were split by countless lightning bolts into dust scattered through the air.

Section 127: Chapter 120 — As Long As You Run Fast Enough, You Can Fly Over Water

"Majiyabakunai!" Seeing the scene before her, Kanna clapped her hands in admiration.

After mutating, this skill targeted everyone within its range. If the enemy had been a small elite force, they might have passed through the thunderstorm unscathed, because individual lightning strikes were not too frightening, and they had a chance to dodge once they sensed danger. Even if they could not dodge, the Great Beast's physical toughness would make enduring them no great problem. But the enemy had gathered in one huge mass. It looked imposing, yet it also became the best conductor for this skill.

After all, lightning did not simply vanish after striking something. It sought out the nearest living creature, and beneath those monsters' feet, the Great Beast's body was the best destination for it.

One strike was no big deal. They could withstand ten. But what about a hundred? A thousand?

Precisely because they did not understand the effects of Kanna's spell, the deep-sea side suffered an enormous loss before they even neared land.