Danyla sensed the attack on Athetislia the instant it began and immediately urged the astonishingly swift Great Dragon Myracis to race toward the island.
She also sent a warning to all the Dragon Warriors, telling them to beware of monsters from the ocean.
But when Myracis reached the waters a few hundred miles southwest of Oldtown, a powerful, evil energy forced her to stop.
Leaden clouds churned low over the entire Summer Sea, as though they might plunge into the water at any moment. Fierce winds whipped up towering waves that roared with wild abandon.
"They're coming!"
Danyla sensed the fluctuations of evil power rushing toward them from the depths, her expression grave.
"This battle may be a difficult one!"
Sure enough, a few minutes later, an immense Deep-Sea Behemoth revealed itself. Its mast-thick tentacles writhed like giant pythons, throwing up countless columns of water.
The hundred-meter Great Dragon Myracis let out a sky-shaking roar, folded her wings, and shot toward the Deep-Sea Behemoth amid a string of sonic booms.
Purple-gold flames enveloped Danyla, and her magical fire poured steadily into Myracis.
"Raaagh!"
Purple-Red Dragonfire surged from Myracis's jaws like a rolling torrent, engulfing the Deep-Sea Behemoth from above.
The Deep-Sea Behemoth twisted its enormous, supple body with surprising agility, instantly drawing all its tentacles in front of itself to shield its massive head.
But those thick, nimble tentacles caught fire at once. As Danyla chanted her blood sacrifice incantation, purple-red sacrificial flames awakened across the Deep-Sea Behemoth's body, spreading over it like a terrifying tide.
Surging blood sacrifice energy flowed back into Danyla and Myracis. Soon, a purple-red radiance began to suffuse every scale on Myracis's body, and the vibrant fire magical energy thinned the heavy clouds around them.
Just then, the deep-blue crystal atop the Deep-Sea Behemoth's head