Rumble—roar—boom——!!!
With an ear-splitting detonation like the very continental plates being torn asunder, a silhouette so vast it drove all hope to despair was rising, slowly yet irresistibly, from that sheer cliff edge that had been severed!
Everyone on the shore widened their eyes and drew in a sharp breath of cold air, staring at the colossal abomination Manan had hurled upon them—the Vampire Sea Dragon!
Worthy of its name! A body over five hundred meters long rose from the riverbed like a mountain range brutally stretched and twisted! Its height of more than three hundred meters let that grotesque Dragon Head easily loom above the ruins of the cliffside encampment, even looking down upon the main keep of Rapids Castle! The torrents of river water it displaced poured off its bulk like waterfalls, cascading into countless turbid, blood-colored streams.
