"That bastard's as enthusiastic as ever."
Watching the enormous Sand Blade coming at him, seeming capable of cleaving everything in the world apart.
Bullet, standing atop Fatalis's back, could not help but smile in "emotion."
However.
The Fatalis beneath him showed fear in its eyes.
Because it could clearly sense "death" closing in.
Crocodile intended to split this Fatalis in two first.
[Whoosh!]
Fortunately, Bullet turned into an afterimage and shot forward.
He fiercely swung his blackened right arm, wrapped in streaks of deep-blue lightning, at the terrifying incoming Sand Blade.
"Gustav Great Cannon!"
[Boom--------]
In an instant, like Mars crashing into Earth, the two forces collided through the air.
The air at the center visibly twisted and churned under the immense pressure.
At the same time.
A heaven-shaking explosion erupted around them.
Like a wildly expanding sphere of transparent energy, it drove countless tons of yellow sand outward in every direction.
They were like golden tidal waves, sweeping away everything in their path.
Behind them, Shukaku immediately merged both hands into the ground, controlling the surging yellow sand to ensure his home remained unaffected.
That was the only thing he could do.
The power behind Crocodile and Bullet's exchange, even if it appeared to be just a simple move, was enough to effortlessly destroy a city with a population in the millions.
As always, fortunately, they were deep in the desert.
But the disturbance still reached the Nephthys oasis city a thousand miles away.
The elves who had moved here from the Zero Magic World all looked up toward the northwestern sky.
Was someone over there testing some forbidden magic?
Or was the World Government disposing of its soon-to-expire Nuclear Weapons stockpile?
Come to think of it, rumbling sounds had been appearing from time to time over the past