Antoniu, the third son of the Spinola family, set down the document he was reading and rubbed his temples in frustration.

“Those damn bastards. They genuinely piss me off. Are they really willing to drown hundreds of thousands of people?”

The bitterness in his voice was unmistakable.

The failed Hunt for the Sea King.

Due to the Sea King’s rampage, the whirlwinds that sustained the Floating Isles had grown even stronger, and additional instabilities in the ascending currents that held the islands aloft had been detected... There was now a significant risk of the entire archipelago collapsing or sinking beneath …