Chapter 277: Studying the essence
After such a long stretch of peace, Japan did still attach some importance to unusual events and changes, as the establishment of the Special Incident Metropolitan Police Department showed.
But that concern was clearly nowhere near enough, nor was their understanding of the changes sweeping the world. At the very least, they did not see it as a crisis yet. They were still more interested in scientific and academic research.
The events of the past few days had undoubtedly sounded an alarm for them. The Americans' warning seemed well-intentioned, but it revealed a painful fact: the Americans had left them out and made preparations long ago.
What the Japanese did not know, however, was that while they were eagerly seeking more intelligence from the Americans and any other possible channels,
the Americans and all the member nations of the World Anti-Dark Tide Convention Alliance were equally shocked.
Under the Alliance's convention-or, more accurately, because there was no concealing the "natural phenomenon" in Daijing Bay-the Americans simply laid all the information they had on the table for their fellow signatories.
These leaders' understanding was naturally completely different from the online discussions among enthusiasts of the world's wonders.
Without question, the Wrath of the Sea God incident was the Dawn Association's handiwork.
They had long known that certain Magic Controllers in Dawn could influence the weather or harness some forces of nature, but what had happened a few days ago was far too outrageous.
The footage filmed by a U.S. Military helicopter that had risked approaching the edge of the thunderstorm had already been shared with the Alliance's member nations.
That gigantic ocean whirlpool was terrifying enough, and the constant roaring from within revealed what it had been formed to do.
Then lightning had rained down in