The instant the Elixir reached her stomach, BIG MOM's enormous body went rigid.
Then a brilliant emerald radiance, too dazzling to look at directly, erupted from every pore of her body like a volcano!
Crack! Crack-crack!
The ground beneath her feet shattered inch by inch. The entire candy palace shook violently under the terrifying surge of energy, its crystal chandeliers swinging wildly overhead as countless fragments rained down.
Outside the windows, the clear night sky abruptly changed!
Drawn by the raging aura within BIG MOM, dark clouds gathered into an enormous vortex several kilometers across. Thick bolts of silver lightning lashed down around the palace like frenzied dragons, lighting the night as brightly as day!
"Uwaaaaaah!!"
At the heart of the storm, BIG MOM let out an earthshaking roar that mingled agony with exhilaration.
Before everyone's horrified eyes, her enormous, bloated body underwent a terrifying transformation that defied all biological sense!
The Elixir had become a blazing fire of life, rampaging through her body and scouring it clean.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
Scalding white steam blasted from her head and every limb like jets from a high-pressure hose. Thunderous cracks rang through the air as her bones shifted, grew, and locked tightly into place!
Under that overwhelmingly forceful cleansing of her meridians and marrow, the mountains of excess fat within her body were not expelled. Instead, they were forcibly refined, compressed, and converted into the purest blood vitality and life essence, nourishing her depleted, aging cells and muscles!
Visible rings of air, threaded with black Haki lightning, blasted outward in all directions.
Zoro's gaze sharpened. He abruptly stepped forward and gripped Wado Ichimonji, his fierce Sword Intent erupting around him and splitting the raging blast rushing toward Nami and Usopp in two.
Katakuri and Sanji tensed at the same time, shielding