As the Sword Armored Fiery Beast continued to grow, both its strength and its feeding demands had grown alongside it. Now reaching over seventeen meters in length, it was starting to more and more resemble a colossal beast.4

That night, hundreds of meters below the sea surface, the Fiery Beast moved through the deep ocean like a black shadow. Apart from the disturbance caused by its movement through the water, its immense size went largely unnoticed, thanks to concealing its aura.2

This underwater landscape was characterized by a small mountain range with varying terrain. Several kilometers ahead lay a deep-sea trench, descending to depths of over a thousand meters. Rising from the seabed on the other side was a mountain peak, its highest point barely a hundred meters below the surface.0

In such a complex environment, even the Fiery Beast...1