"How will we know if we don't try it ourselves? Besides, the seawater is only at the bottom; it might not be at the top!" Charlotte Linlin's dragon maw opened slightly, emitting a low and confident voice.
"Hold on tight! We're going to accelerate!"
The White Giant Dragon let out a dragon roar that could pierce gold and crack stone. Its wings flapped vigorously, and its speed suddenly increased. Against the violent gravity and wind pressure, it began to spiral upward along the periphery of the waterspout!
"Hold on! We're about to enter the core wind pressure zone! If you fall here, I might not be able to fish you out in time!"
"O... Okay! I'll hold on tight!" Gölz responded loudly, flattening her entire body against the dragon's back.
The White Giant Dragon's flight posture was no longer as elegant and composed as usual. Every flap of its wings required immense strength to counter the chaotic air currents that could tear steel apart.
In the face of this pure natural power, even someone as strong as Charlotte Linlin had to concentrate fully to maintain her balance and direction... st. freya, deck.
"Honestly! Why does Linlin always like to go on such dangerous adventures! That's a natural disaster containing seawater! One slip-up and..."
Gloriosa gripped the ship's railing tightly, looking up at the white dragon shadow being gradually swallowed by dark clouds and the storm, her face filled with worry and anxiety.
In fact, she also wanted to go, but Charlotte Linlin sternly refused on the grounds that she had only recently acquired her ability and was not yet proficient.
Gloriosa herself understood that with her current control over the Pegasus Form, it would indeed be difficult to protect herself in a natural disaster of this level, so she did not stubbornly follow.
"Don't worry, beautiful big sister!" A flame ball as warm and bright as a little sun—Prometheus—floated to Gloriosa's side and comforted her in a lively tone.
"As long as Big Sister and the Captain get close to that big storm, they will surely be able to create a su—per powerful Homies partner! Look, aren't Yellow Sponge and I both made this way?"
"That's right! Mama, Big Sister, and Papa will definitely be fine!" Beside them, a strange creature, yellow all over and shaped like a square sponge, also chimed in with a crisp voice.
It was a Homie born from an ice mold provided and named by Charlotte Linlin, with light element injected by Gloriosa, and finally given a soul by Gölz—Yellow Sponge!
It possessed the ability to release high-intensity penetrating lasers and had extremely fast movement speed. Its strength was enough to make an ordinary Navy Vice Admiral find it troublesome.
"Pa... Papa?" Gloriosa's attention was instantly drawn to this address.
"Who taught you to call her that? Shouldn't she be called 'Big Mama'?"
Yellow Sponge shook its square body and answered honestly, "Papa taught me herself. She said she doesn't like me calling her Mama."
"Ah~~~" Gloriosa was stunned at first, then seemed to understand something. She held her heart in her hands, her cheeks instantly flushing with a touching blush. Looking at the looming dragon shadow in the sky, pink stars appeared in her eyes.
"So... so we already have a 'child'..."
The White Giant Dragon struggled through the violent air currents, climbing like a hero going against the current.
The further up they went, the more terrifying the wind became, almost tearing the Dragon Wings out of shape. Fine water droplets and ice crystals were mixed in the wind, hitting the dragon scales like countless sharp blades, making a pitter-patter sound.
Gölz closed her eyes tightly, buried her face deep into the dragon scales, and hugged them tightly with her arms. She only refrained from screaming because of her absolute trust in Charlotte Linlin.
Charlotte Linlin was fully concentrated, sharp light flashing in her dragon pupils. She carefully captured the gaps in the wind pressure, controlling her huge dragon body to move along the edge of the destructive power.
Their goal was not to destroy this natural power, but to reach its top!
"Right here!"
After climbing for an unknown amount of time, the violent tearing force around them suddenly lightened.
They broke through the entanglement of the lower-level water vapor and reached a realm filled with pure wild winds and dense dark clouds.
This was no longer the main body of the chaotic waterspout, but the energy heart of the storm. Countless air currents converged and rotated here, letting out deafening roars.
Charlotte Linlin steadied herself and said to Gölz on her back:
"It's up to you now."
Sitting on Charlotte Linlin, Gölz immediately looked solemnly at the swirling and howling storm mass next to her, which seemed to have substance, and issued a declaration:
"Storm! Storm! Wake up! Do you want to continue raging aimlessly like this until you dissipate into nothingness... or entrust your soul and power to me, gain eternity and form, and gallop across the sea with me?!"
The sound waves containing the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit were like ice cubes thrown into boiling oil, instantly agitating this violent energy field!
Rumble—!
The surrounding dark clouds surged violently, and the wild wind let out an even sharper and more piercing hiss, as if countless invisible consciousnesses were struggling and responding! A huge, blurry, hideous face composed of pure air currents vaguely emerged in the clouds, carrying primitive violence and a hint of awakened tremor.
Gölz threw a small, highly condensed pink energy ball shimmering with soul light, which slowly floated toward the storm.
At the same time, she closed her eyes and concentrated all her thoughts, guiding it like a sculptor, shaping an "anchor" and "form" for the wild and formless wind consciousness.
"I, Gölz—give you a soul! Descend!"
Gölz gave a soft shout!
Buzz—!!!
A blinding light suddenly erupted, illuminating the surrounding dark clouds in an eerie emerald green! The massive wind pressure suddenly contracted, as if swallowed by an invisible black hole! The intense energy fluctuations caused Charlotte Linlin's dragon body to shake involuntarily.
The light faded, and the whistling of the wind became low.
At the original position of the storm core, a strange existence was suspended. Its entire body was a deep dark green. In the center of its body, an emerald eye slowly opened, curiously observing the world it had just been "born" into. There was still a trace of the storm's wildness in its eye, but more of it was a newborn's ignorance.
Charlotte Linlin looked at this newborn Homie, feeling the majestic wind power contained within it, and nodded in satisfaction.
"From today on, your name is—Aranui!"
She reached out and lightly touched Aranui's flowing body. The sensation was like touching a cool whirlwind.
"O... Okay, Papa." From the information conveyed by the wind, Aranui knew how to address Charlotte Linlin.
Then it flew in a circle around Gölz, instinctively getting close to the "Creator" who gave it life and form.
"Are... you... Mama?" the newborn wind element Homie said indistinctly.
"Ah? I'm no... No, I am Mama!" Unsure what was going through her head, Gölz, who subconsciously wanted to refuse, accepted the title.
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