Well, at least that song had stopped. It wasn't exactly unpleasant: in fact it had been rather nice, even though it had also sounded rather ominous. It was like a song which warned you that something bad was going to happen, but you couldn't really do anything about it, and you might as well admire the beauty of your doom as it came to you. However Akeya wasn't really fond of things which tried to affect her mind. The fact that the song was that enchanting mostly put her on guard, wondering where it was coming from and the best way to deal with it. There were several sources of extremely high magic power in Hargeon Town at the moment. If the song came from one of those the chances of her being able to take them out quickly were slim, so the fact that the song disappeared without her having to deal with it personally was something of a relief. However, that didn't remove the fact that she was here for more serious matters than just a particularly nice if foreboding song. The Magic Council had summoned as many mages as possible here because something was approaching Hargeon Town from the ocean, and it was doing so fast. She could wonder about that song after that was dealt with.
It was at that point that the magic presence, and the threat, began to arrive, which immediately put all thoughts about that song out of Akeya's head.
She was pretty good at sensing magic. Like everybody in her village she had begun practising magic at a young age, and it had quickly turned out that magic sensory was something of a talent of hers. Not feeling like wasting an opportunity her parents had enthusiastically supported her developing that skill further: taking something you were good at and refining it was never a bad idea, unless there was another aspect of yourself that just needed the attention more. And so Akeya had trained, refined, and practised, until eventually she could accurately tell the location of a magic source at twice the range other mages of her level could. She was also better at discerning between types of magic, and what they might be used for.
But this time that was backfiring on her. This...thing...that was rising out of the water didn't require any special senses to notice. No magic sensory was needed, no talent in detection. Its presence was unmistakable, undeniable. It was too big, too powerful, to overwhelming for anybody to even make an attempt at saying they didn't notice it. Its physical size was immense, but that was still nothing compared to the magical presence: that smashed down upon Hargeon Town like the fist of a large and particularly angry god. It must be terrifying for the civilians, who didn't possess any magic, to suddenly be exposed to so much magic power that their minds were brutally forced to acknowledge it. It wouldn't be surprising if quite a lot of them would shoot into a panic, going hysterical at the sudden and irrevocable feeling of helplessness before the threat posed by this gargantuan named Gargalrax. That would only make the evacuation of the people even harder, their minds too scrambled for them to cooperate as the only thing left for them was to panic, scream, try their best to get away from that monster that loomed over the town like a human might loom over an anthill. Or they could go catatonic, unable to cope and their minds completely shutting down. That magic power, so far beyond human understanding that even H-Ranks, who already were beyond what your average mortal could comprehend, felt like nothing more than gnats in comparison, was a weapon in its own right. It didn't need to be used for anything, it didn't need to be directed, it just needed to exist. If it existed, and was present, it could already cause entire armies to become incapacitated as they could do nothing but either flee or kneel before that power.
And Akeya had it even worse than most. That magic sensory that she had carefully been refining and sharpening, becoming better and better so she could become stronger and stronger... It was an overload. She couldn't block it out, all her mental barriers were getting smashed to pieces as her entire being was filled by the sheer amount of magic power possessed by that thing. She had been flying high up in the air, high enough that if anybody saw her she would most likely be confused for a bird. Which was a good thing right now, since it meant that she wouldn't get obliterated by that tidal wave that crashed into the town far below her as she went through the process of feeling herself get ripped apart from the inside. Curling up into a ball, clutching at the sides of her head with both hands, Akeya closed her eyes as she tried her best to regain her sanity and her sense of self. At least her instincts, after the initial shock, were enough to keep her flying up in the air so she wouldn't fall to her death while she dealt with this imminent crisis. In her mind she was trying to retreat, rebuilt her mental defences, block out that ocean of magic power that threatened to drown her, that was already drowning her and she was trying to get back to the surface so she could breathe.
This struggle lasted for a while, the half dragon hovering high up in the air, most likely high enough that nobody even noticed that she was there. The people down below were too busy dealing with the fact that a tidal wave was falling down on the town, and Gargalrax was such a ridiculously huge entity that he couldn't possible actually identify one small insignificant spec floating there in the air, especially since even with her high altitude he still towered far above her. She had been flying high, high enough that if it wasn't for her eyes being particularly sharp she could never have made out any details of Hargeon Town. She was fortunate that the wings and tail that granted her flight had been accompanied by what humans would call hawk eyes. Of course, those kind of eyes were shared by almost anything which could fly but preyed on creatures living on the ground. Including dragons. But as high as she had been flying, Gargalrax was still higher. If Akeya wasn't busy dealing with the overload her magic sensory was constantly giving her she would have wondered how such a large creature could exist as a living being. She would have formed the theory that Gargalrax wasn't an actual living being, but more a magical entity given a physical form so it could interact with the physical world. She would have listened to its speech, and conceded that at least his mere size and magic power gave him some claim to the title of god (not that it would have impressed her. So far as Akeya was concerned, dragons bowed to no god). Unfortunately the magic overload was her top priority right now.
Eventually she managed to regain a semblence of coherency, feeling like her head was pounding as her eyes were blurry. Shaking her head (and immediately regretting her decision as it only made the headache worse) she blinked several times, her eyes slowly returning to their usual clarity and sharpness. Looking up at Gargalrax she felt the urge to gape, and forbade herself doing so. She refused to be intimidated by sheer size. She would acknowledge that this was a serious threat, something which she would have to go all out against, together with the other mages, just to deal with it, but she would never allow herself to show fear or submission. That was what prey did, and even if her head was still pounding, even if she could still feel that ocean of magic power smashing against her mental barriers, trying to once again overwhelm her, even if she had no idea how to start with this guy (with that size any of her attacks most likely would only harm its outer skin, not because of lack of firepower but just because they weren't large enough to do anything else) she would not let herself be turned into mere prey. Even this giant creature was not invincible. It might look hopeless at first, but as long as it existed it had a weakness. Perfection didn't exist, and neither did true invincibility.
However, before she could deal with that giant thing she should first focus on something a bit more easily tackled. Looking down below she saw what she had been missing because she was busy feeling her mind being wiped out, and trying to prevent it. A massive tidal wave had slammed into the town, utterly destroying at least one third and more likely a full half of it, the side which had been facing the sea. With that amount of water falling down not even solid stone buildings could have stood a chance. Water was quite the deadly forced if used right, and one way to use it right was just to use so much of it that rather than a liquid it was better to describe it as a solid mass which could change shape. For anybody who hadn't been able to get out of the way in time (and that must have been quite a lot of people: Akeya knew that the Magic Council would have tried to evacuate as many citizens as possible, but it was unlikely they had gotten everybody, and there had also been mages down there) it must have felt as if they had a mountain fall down upon them, with about the same results. It wouldn't be surprising if some victims had turned into nothing but a bloody red mark on the ground. Buildings were gone, people had been crushed like ants, and even now that the initial collision was over with the water would still flood the town, causing more buildings to crash, sweeping up debris, smashing into and drowning people, undermining everything where possible... Honestly if the only goal that the giant tentacle monster had was to ruin Hargeon Town he could have thrown down that tidal wave and called it a day. If it disappeared this instant the humans would still be busy for months, if not years, just to rebuild and recover from the damage dealt by just one tidal wave.
Well, that wasn't something Akeya could do a lot about. Her ability set wasn't based on either protecting, evacuating or rebuilding. She would leave that to the people who actually had proficiency and experience with those matters. For her part, she noticed that some strange creatures had arrived after the water mountain: from the beach strange grey-white creatures were moving towards Hargeon Town, splitting up into groups and from the looks of it searching for prey. They were large, although mostly in length. Akeya (slowly becoming more and more used to the pressure of Gargalrax's mere presence, although her head still hurt like a bitch) began to descend, getting a better view of the creatures. She had never encountered them before, but she had heard descriptions of them, and seen drawings. They were like sharks, large sharks, except they had four strong legs, ending in webbed and clawed paws. So...land-sharks? A strange idea, although Akeya had heard jokes before regarding how the only thing scarier than a shark was a shark who could walk on land. It seemed the ocean itself agreed, as it was supplying these monsters as proof. There was most likely a reason they were arriving now, related to that giant tentacle monster (Akeya winced, slowing down as she placed a clawed hand against her head. The pounding was quite persistent). However for now the task at hand looked relatively easy: get rid of those monsters before they began eating people. Well, too many. She could count over a dozen of the sharks, and the chances of being able to take them all out before they ate anybody at all were low enough that only a true optimist would consider them feasible. Akeya, as a pessimist, was busy trying to prioritize, although it was going rather slowly thanks to her head and the struggle to not be overwhelmed once again. She could tell that the giant thing that was calling itself a god was going to be a real problem, and not just an annoying one.
Which group of sharks should she take out first, what was the right sequence, or should she try to figure out what was causing the sharks to arrive right this moment and see if she could put a stop to it? She was still descending, now flying low enough that if somebody looked up they might actually notice her as something bigger and more important than just a bird.