Skill Pray for Rain initiated.
Caster entered adjustment mode. Adjustment commenced.
Adjustment complete. Do you wish to inject double the energy to activate the special effect template?
Caster unresponsive. Activating special effect template automatically.
Energy injected. Selecting template effect.
Caster unresponsive. Initiating random effect selection.
System intervention: Random selection – In the Name of Thunder.
The random effect for this instance is "Thunderstorm."
Thunderstorm: Area-of-effect natural disaster type forcibly converted to thunderstorm. The thunderstorm will indiscriminately strike all life forms within the natural disaster's range with lightning until the natural disaster ends.
Natural disaster duration: 24 hours... After reading this long string of information suddenly pulled up by the system, Kanna looked outside with a bewildered expression.
"What's wrong?" Kal'tsit asked, noticing Kanna's abnormality. After all, Kanna's ability was an indispensable force in stopping the giant beast this time. Any error would require her to recalculate everything to find a path to victory amidst the changes.
Kanna rubbed her dragon horns, somewhat troubled.
"Uh... how should I put it! After all, I've used it so little (this is only the second time), so there's just a tiny, tiny error. But don't panic, it's probably developing in a good direction. Just make sure, no matter what happens, you absolutely do not enter that range."
At this moment, the clouds outside began to gather. Everyone saw that before the night had faded and the sun had risen, strange, colored clouds appeared in the sky.
Whether it was Kal'tsit, Ilena, or the Tower Keeper, they all recognized those clouds. Although they looked beautiful, beneath this beauty lay endless terror, and the pain of separation and death.
"Hiss! Catastrophe clouds!" Even the Tower Keeper, who considered himself well-informed, hadn't expected catastrophe clouds to appear so close overhead. The thought of Rock Bay Town facing a natural disaster made him extremely anxious.
The clouds overhead gathered faster and faster, and their height became lower and lower. Even standing in the "safe zone," with Kanna and Kal'tsit's assurance that the terror brewing in the clouds would not descend upon them, everyone felt an overwhelming sense of dread.
Ilena looked at Kanna, who was standing openly on the balcony, curiously staring at the cloud layer constantly streaked with lightning. She suddenly recalled Kal'tsit looking up at the sky earlier, and only now did she understand the meaning of Kal'tsit's words at that time.
And at this moment, the vast sea was also in turmoil. The Seaborn were not mindless creatures; they naturally detected the abnormal situation above their heads.
But after a brief pause, the Seaborn decided to continue their advance, because in their view, this should be a sign of an approaching heavy rainstorm.
As creatures of the sea, heavy rain would not only fail to hinder them in the slightest but would also serve as the best cover for their assault on land.
And the bitter fruit of this mistaken decision would be swallowed by the Seaborn themselves.
Kal'tsit, who had been constantly observing the situation at sea, noticed their abnormality.
"They're accelerating! Notify everyone to prepare; the enemy will reach the coastline half an hour earlier than expected!" In just a brief moment, Kal'tsit calculated the exact time of their arrival at the shore.
Kanna, meanwhile, looked at the giant beast's back, which was covered with all sorts of bizarre, gaudy Seaborn. It seemed they intended to use the giant beast as a landing craft to directly launch a beachhead assault on Rock Bay Town.
Just as Kanna was looking at the effect of her spell and the dense cluster of monsters opposite her with a strange expression, the sound of running nearby brought her back to her senses.
Looking around, Kanna walked to Kal'tsit's satchel and pulled out two pairs of sunglasses. These were souvenirs Kanna had bought in Siracusa.
She handed one to Kal'tsit.
Kal'tsit looked at Kanna, hoping Kanna would provide an explanation.
"Didn't I just say there was a tiny, tiny problem with the spell? I didn't think that problem would be too serious, but just now I saw how densely packed they were over there, and I thought it might, probably, perhaps be a tiny bit better than I imagined. Put on the sunglasses; you won't regret it."
Kal'tsit didn't immediately put on the sunglasses after hearing this. Instead, she glanced at Kanna and then immediately opened her headset. "Ilena, pay attention. Instruct the team to turn their backs to the sea, and then arrange for someone to immediately prepare sunglasses."
Hearing Kal'tsit's words, Ilena, who was setting up defenses downstairs, almost stumbled. What kind of strange mission was this?
However, as an Inquisitor, she was accustomed to obeying superior orders, no matter how ridiculous they seemed. With doubts, she looked at the captain of the security team next to her, who, after hearing the news, called a subordinate with a conflicted expression to temporarily requisition all sunglasses from the nearest optician.
Upstairs, after Kal'tsit finished speaking, she tossed the sunglasses in her hand to Skadi.
"After the battle begins, I will stay inside the tower with the medical team. The fighting outside will be up to you."
Skadi took the sunglasses and nodded. Hoisting her greatsword, she walked downstairs. She was not a commander and was not good at commanding, so as a vanguard, the only thing she could do was stand on the front line of the Seaborn's attack path.
Twenty minutes later, all the participating defense teams looked at the sunglasses handed to them with bewildered expressions.
It wasn't even light yet; only the lighthouse's illumination made the area somewhat clear. Yet, they were told to wear sunglasses. Were they expected to fight the unknown enemy blind?
However, a few minutes later, they all praised their commander's incredibly wise decision in their hearts.
Kanna on the rooftop looked at the clouds outside, which almost merged with the ocean, and said, "It's almost time, Kal'tsit. You'd best turn your back and not look at the sea."
Hearing Kanna's words, Kal'tsit walked down the lighthouse without any hesitation, leaving only Kanna and the Tower Keeper, both wearing sunglasses, standing on top, gazing at the sea.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning ripped across the sky, connecting the sea and the heavens as if to bind them together.
And this lightning bolt was like a bugle call. The next second, as everyone gasped in involuntary shock and exclaimed "Holy crap!", countless lightning bolts, like electric snakes pouring from the sky, densely crashed into the sea.
The terror of lightning lies in the fact that by the time you see it, it has already embraced you. And the countless Seaborn standing on the giant beast's back became the first to experience this embrace.
Countless lightning bolts intertwined and merged, forming an electric pillar as thick as the giant beast's surface area, descending from the sky.
The roaring thunder couldn't drown out the giant beast's sharp cries of agony. In just an instant, the entire back of the giant beast turned to charcoal, and the Seaborn on it, if lucky, might have some skeletal remains left; if unlucky, they were directly split into dust in the air by the countless lightning bolts.
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