Seraphims

Devil Fruit Ability Users lost their Devil Fruit powers upon contact with seawater, their entire bodies turning limp and weak.

As the proportion of seawater in the soil beneath the World Tree grew higher and higher, Saint Pete finally could no longer endure it and burrowed out of the ground.

The World Tree was also exhausted as a result and entered a brief period of self-repair.

"I've dealt with the strange tree! Why aren't you coming onto the island yet?!"

The drenched Sand Worm burst from the ground, its deafening roar instantly spreading across the entire island.

"Attack!"

At the same time, everyone around it launched an assault on the hundreds-of-meters-long Sand Worm, now weakened.

"Great Perfumed Kick!"

The Empress revealed her snow-white, silky legs beneath her qipao and delivered several consecutive kicks to Saint Pete's body.

Ignoring Saint Pete's defenses, the struck areas were petrified over a large expanse, displaying the might of the Love-Love Fruit.

Loki's body abruptly swelled into a fifteen-meter-tall muscle giant. With a thunderous roar, he pushed the Muscle-Muscle Fruit's power to its limit and rammed the petrified section of Saint Pete into two pieces.

"Nice one, big guy."

Kuina manipulated repulsion, forcibly blasting Saint Pete's two halves east and west, preventing the severed body from recovering.

The seven Seraphims followed suit and attacked the Sand Worm—Venom, slashes, petrification, shadows...

Saint Pete, besieged from all sides, was in a miserable state. Especially the half of his body whose shadow S-Shadow had cut away—it melted like snow under the sunlight.

Anyone whose shadow had been stolen by the Shadow-Shadow Fruit could not be exposed to sunlight.

"AAAAARGH!!!" Saint Maz screamed as he suffered a series of dismemberments.

He was human. Humans felt pain.

Fortunately, the seawater clinging to his body had completely vanished amid that barrage