"There's not just something wrong with the weather here!"
On the bridge, a seasoned old navigator responsible for observing the weather stared fixedly at the Radar screen, at the terrifying cyclone that had formed in an instant and covered a hundred-mile radius. All color drained from his face, and his voice shook and warped with extreme terror.
"The weather here... it's fucking alive!"
The instant his words fell!
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
A terrifying thunderclap that seemed capable of tearing the sky apart exploded above everyone's heads!
Immediately afterward, under everyone's horrified gazes, billions of blinding purple electrical arcs suddenly lit up within those mountain-heavy storm clouds!
Those arcs were no longer ordinary lightning. As though alive, they frantically gathered and intertwined within the clouds, ultimately forming a purple lightning net vast enough to envelop heaven and earth!
"This is bad! It's a Magnetic Storm Cluster!" the old navigator screamed in despair. "One of the New World's three great natural disasters! Once caught inside, any ship will be utterly destroyed by those violent electromagnetic pulses! Even steel will be broken down instantly!"
"All units! Activate energy shields immediately! Set Anti-Gravity Stabilizers to maximum power! Prepare for evasive maneuvers!"
Adjutant Brannew's face was as white as paper as he roared into the Communication Den Den Mushi with every ounce of strength he had.
But it was all futile!
Before this living, temperamental natural disaster, even humanity's most advanced technology seemed so fragile and powerless.
Whooo-!
Under that terrifying electromagnetic interference, the Leviathan's newly activated energy shield lasted less than three seconds before giving an overburdened wail, flickering a few times, and going out completely!
Then dozens of enormous waterspouts, each over ten meters in diameter, shot skyward from the boiling sea like tentacles emerging from the depths of hell. Bearing terrifying power