The fierce wind swept up the white sand and scattered it in all directions.
Across the earth, a massive ditch more than ten meters wide was gradually filled in as white sand streamed into it, as though the world were repairing itself.
Drip~ drip...
After the power produced by Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō was vented completely in that single strike, the wounds that had burst open all over Duan Mu's body because they could not withstand it began spraying blood. In the blink of an eye, he had been dyed into a blood-soaked man, with hardly an intact spot left on him.
Was I still too late?
Duan Mu looked up at the void. A man had appeared in the sky at some point, wearing pure-white clothing similar to Aaroniero's, though his collar was shaped like a disk.
The man was tall and slender, wore a single eyepatch, and had medium-length black hair. In his hand, he held a massive double-crescent scythe.
NO. 8—Nnoitra Gilga!
The instant he saw the other man, the man's name and strength surfaced in Duan Mu's mind.
Actually, while fighting Aaroniero, he had already sensed Nnoitra's approach. Otherwise, after raising his spiritual pressure to captain level, Duan Mu would not have needed to forcibly merge Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō into Flash Cry. With captain-level spiritual pressure, killing Aaroniero would not have been difficult.
It would merely have taken some time. Unfortunately, what he had lacked just now was precisely time.
Even after giving it everything he had, he was still one step too late.
Just as Duan Mu had said before...
Even thirty thousand ants, combined together, were still only ants. From beginning to end, Duan Mu had never considered the possibility that he would lose to someone like Aaroniero.
Aaroniero's ability of "infinite evolution"