The formation of Calamities is often imperceptible to the naked eye.
Calamities appear without warning, or are indistinguishable from ordinary weather changes. In the face of Calamities, visual identification and empirical analysis are often not highly accurate.
Thus, in ancient times, before mobile cities were established, settlements that relied on pack animals and cattle to evade Calamities often perished in the river of history due to a single incorrect prediction by an Old Shaman.
With further research in modern Calamity studies, humanity has discovered more and more ways to calculate and determine the outbreak of Calamities.
By precisely measuring Originium dust concentration in the atmosphere, Originium energy radiation counts, Originium Arts formations, and local Originium Ore vein distribution... once all these factors are accurately determined, humanity gains the ability to deduce the location, time, and intensity of a Calamity.
This is the function of the Calamity Messenger. After receiving the most professional training, they become the most indispensable navigators on the continent of Terra.
However, even today, many people still rely on experience and perception to predict the arrival of Calamities.
The most typical example is the Old Witch Doctor who taught Tomimi and Gavial Originium Arts. While there are not many Calamities within the Akahula Rainforest, thunderstorms and forest fires occasionally occur in the surrounding areas.
Before each of these, the Old Witch Doctor would go to each tribe to warn them, telling these guys, whose heads were only filled with fighting, to quickly flee for their lives. No one would be foolish enough to defy the heavens.
Having an elder is like having a treasure. In these primitive tribes where no Calamity Messengers exist, the experience of an elder is extremely important—this is also why Goki respects Kaltsit so much.
However, in another race, individuals with rich experience and long lifespans are actually not uncommon.
The Sarkaz, a race born both blessed and cursed, possess a longevity that other races find hard to match.
The fact is, there is no definite record to date indicating that Sarkaz die of old age; the end of their lives usually comes only through illness or battle.
Elderly Sarkaz are powerful and wise. Some even believe they can cast Originium Arts without language, with Originium energy being an extension of their hands. They can even determine the conditions for a Calamity's formation just by looking.
This is also one of the reasons for the derogatory term "Devil"; they are too out of place with other races.
But at least, some legends were not wrong—some Sarkaz can indeed observe the arrival of a Calamity with the naked eye.
"Hold on tight, buckle up, Liz. The thunder sandstorm is coming, and we need to cast a Spell ahead of time."
Whoosh—
Engines roared, exhaust pipes bellowed. A dust-covered three-wheeled Originium motorcycle sped forward amidst the intensifying gusts. Its rubber tires frictioned against the gravel ground, leaving deep imprints.
Black robes and white skirts danced in the storm. The three-wheeled motorcycle's speed soared to nearly a hundred kilometers per hour.
Unlike the noisy surroundings, from the driver's seat, Shining turned her head, shook the white horns on her head, and calmly instructed the blonde Sarkaz girl behind her.
Around them, the previously clear sky suddenly turned ochre, and countless tiny, pale yellow particles appeared out of thin air in the atmosphere surrounding the two Sarkaz women.
These were not sand and dust stirred up by the strong winds, but Originium crystals that formed instantly under the Calamity weather.
Simply inhaling these Originium crystals could lead to infection with oripathy.
And on the sandy ground, many black Originium crystals also began to spread from nothing, rapidly proliferating on the ground like salt crystals.
This is a precursor to a Calamity. When the density of Originium crystals reaches a certain level, the collision of Originium energy will trigger the most primitive, naturally generated Originium Arts.
Storms, lightning, and sand—these common Originium Arts in human hands will be amplified hundreds or thousands of times when driven by natural forces.
However, for the two Sarkaz, this level of "Calamity" was still within an acceptable range.
"I know, the Spell is already cast—"
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