Galaxy Impact
Van Oka was preparing to use the high-altitude rock formations to jump away from the Battlefield.
However--
"Buzz!!"
A dangerous intuition exploded in my mind.
He instinctively looked down, but only managed to see the crimson afterglow Sky Splitter in the night.
"Laugh--!"
So fast that even a shadow couldn't react.
Kuina burst forth from the shadows like a demonic sword drawn from hell!
Her aura was completely integrated with her blood energy; her figure was like mist, fleeting like a phantom.
In that instant, even the wind was cleaved in two.
"Ah--!"
Blood splattered, and his left arm flew high into the air!
Van Oka's Sniper Rifle, along with his entire arm, was severed, and his blood gushed into the night sky like a fountain.
The unbalanced body immediately plummeted from the sky!
"Oka!!"
With a roar, Doc Q desperately spurred the sick horse, now with only one wing remaining, to charge forward.
The sickly Pegasus roared and suddenly pulled out its tattered wings, managing to catch Van Augur ten meters off the ground.
"Cough cough... Are you still alive?"
"--My arm is gone!!" Van Augur gritted his teeth and growled, his face deathly pale, blood gushing down half of his body.
Doc Q turned around and saw Kuina slowly walking through the churning blood mist.
Her eyes were like cold stars, and behind her, blood shadows swirled, like Shura treading the waves.
"Damn woman..." Doc Q's face turned ashen, and he suddenly raised his hand!
A dark purple poisonous mist erupted, instantly turning everything in its path to ashes.
The poisonous miasma churned, like rotting waves, engulfing the entire harbor.
As he spurred his Pegasus to flee at breakneck speed, he continuously unleashed a fog of plague to obscure his vision.
"Hiss--Whoosh--! Run!!"
But before he could catch his breath, a cold, sharp shout suddenly rang out from the depths of the foggy sea.
"Frostblood - Thousand Wings Slash!!"
As the sound faded, the world seemed to freeze.
The next moment--
The entire night sky was dyed crimson.
Countless beams of blood-red light gathered around Kuina, her heart centered on the ultimate essence of the Shimotsuki Style, her wings emanating from the blood energy of the Vampire Fruit!
At that moment, the sky seemed to be Cut countless fragments by her sword intent!
"This is...?!" Van Augur looked up, his pupils shrinking sharply.
In the sky, countless Blood Blades spread out like bat wings, creating sonic booms and tornadoes.
Each Blood Blade was imbued with Haki of domineering power, carrying a chilling aura and killing intent, like a "sword energy cluster" formed from the essence of life.
Doc Q's pupils contracted. "That's... a whole array of Blood Blades!?"
He pulled the horse up abruptly, but the movement was already too slow.
"Hiss--!"
Thousands upon thousands of crimson sword energies tore through the plague mist, forcefully piercing the barrier of disease!
The trees along the way turned to ashes, and the rocks were Cut dust!
Doc Q roared, "No! We can't hold them off!"
He kicked the sick horse high into the air. "Go and stop her!!"
The one-winged, sick horse's eyes flashed with terror and confusion, and the next second—it was completely engulfed by countless Blood Blades!
"Pfft--!"
A surge of blood erupted, and the skeletal horse's body was instantly sliced into powder, dissipating into a bloody mist.
The aftershocks are still spreading.
"Boom--!"
Although Doc Q and Van Augur managed to fall to the ground, they were still struck by the residual blood energy.
Their chests were slashed open with deep, bone-revealing wounds, and blood gushed out. They were sent flying dozens of meters like rag dolls!
It crashed heavily to the ground, causing the rocks to crack.
"Cough--cough cough!" Doc Q spat out a mouthful of black blood, gripping the ground tightly, and looked up at the churning blood mist.
And in that churning sea of blood—
Kuina slowly stood in mid-air, her Wado Ichimonji dripping with bloody light.
Her aura was extremely cold, and the blood mist around her swirled in the wind, as if living beings were worshipping her.
In the center of that Battlefield, a tapestry of chaos and flames—
A colossal, skull-shaped rock giant, formed from the Island-Island Fruit, stands proudly.
Its size almost covered half of the sky above Hachinosu, and its eyes were hollow, yet burning with a crimson light.
"Wow--hahaha!!"
A deafening laugh echoed in all directions, drowning out the explosions and roars.
That was Jesus Burgess's voice—a ferocious laugh filled with madness, pain, and bluff.
"It's no use!! You can't destroy me!!"
With his furious roar, the giant's hand, which had been shattered by Luffy's Dragon Fist, reassembled with a deafening boom.
Rock and metal debris intertwine, their bone-like structures interlocking.
The enormous metacarpal bones cracked and popped in the air, like monsters reborn from hell.
However, beneath that ferocious laughter, Jesus Burgess was inwardly cursing:
"Damn it--! It hurts like hell!!"
Although the Island-Island Fruit can assimilate with the terrain and transform into a gigantic body, --
Every bit of damage the enemy inflicts on the island is simultaneously fed back to the ability user.
Inside Jesus Burgess' body, the sound of bones breaking echoed continuously, and blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
He gritted his teeth, forcefully suppressing his trembling.
"I can't back down yet!! I absolutely cannot back down in front of Boss Teach!!"
"Boom--!"
The giant let out another deep roar, the ground collapsed, and the waves surged.
Two enormous, sky-covering hands rose again, carrying a mountain-like pressure, and slammed down from the top of the sky Luffy in mid-air!
"Vahaha--Crush me to pieces!!"
Despite the attack that could destroy warships and crush castles, Luffy remained completely unmoved.
His dragon scales shimmered with a pinkish-gold luster, and his dragon eyes reflected thunder, flames, and a colossal shadow.
"Since that's the case--"
He slowly lowered his body, his muscles taut with an aura of Haki.
"Then I'll unleash my full power!"
"--boom!!"
The air shattered, and black and red Conqueror's Haki Inazuma burst forth from his body, roaring like an angry dragon, piercing straight into the sky!
The oppressive atmosphere instantly plunged the entire Battlefield into a deathly silence.
Even Zoro and Kuina, who were far away, were startled by that aura.
The two looked up almost simultaneously, their eyes meeting.
"That move is...!" Zoro's voice was filled with the excitement of battle.
Kuina's lips parted slightly, her gaze deep. "Has he finally fully mastered it—that punch?"
A pink and gold glow erupted from Luffy's fist.
A dazzling "Cross-shaped Star shone in the night, like a spark igniting the Milky Way.
Jesus Burgess' pupils constricted, and the hairs on his body stood on end. "This aura... this is bad!"
He roared, activating the fruit's power and manipulating the giant hand to accelerate once more, tearing through the air currents!
"Die, Navy!!"
However, no sooner had that roar subsided than the dragon-man in mid-air moved.
"Dragon Bone Galaxy Impact!!"
With a roar, a streak of pinkish-gold light shot into the sky, resembling the reverse trajectory of Meteor Fall!
The black and Inazuma on Luffy's fist converged into a dragon shape, and the force of his punch solidified, piercing through heaven and earth.
At that moment, his fist—was the fall of the galaxy.
"--boom!!"
The dragon-shaped Shockwave roared across the sky, tearing through the sonic boom and striking the island giant's skull head-on!
The deafening roar echoed throughout the entire Hachinosu!
The air was compressed, exploded, and collapsed, causing waves thousands of meters high to rise across the entire sea, and lightning tore through the clouds!
"Gah--Ahhh!!"
Jesus Burgess let out a heart-wrenching scream as the upper body of the skull giant disintegrated in the explosion, shattering the rock layers into countless meteors that plunged into the sea!
The ground shook violently, and a corner of Hachinosu was completely blown away!
Towering waves rolled in and swallowed the Harbor!
Jesus Burgess himself, his body torn in half by the Shockwave, fell into the sea, blood mixed with rock fragments, still roaring, "Ah-- Teach Teach--!"
In the sky, Luffy's pink and gold dragon-shaped fist shadow was still dissipating. He hovered in mid-air, his fist hanging down, his dragon eyes burning with indomitable spirit and rage.
The sea still trembled where the wind had passed.
That punch not only shattered the island giant—
It also tore the sky off Hachinosu.