Crack!
Almost without warning, the bright, sunny sky turned dark as rolling black clouds gathered and thunderclap flash crackled through the air.
The sky above Enies Lobby was blanketed in darkness. Gust after gust of wind whipped through the island, while black-and-red lightning seemed to tear the heavens apart.
Then a grand, stirring war song rang out, filling everyone with soaring passion, solemn courage, and awe. Like an invisible meteor shower, it thundered across the entire island.
Almost at once, everyone on Enies Lobby—government officials and civilians alike—looked up at the darkened sky.
As the stirring melody reached its climax, an epic vision of armies clashing rose in everyone's minds.
But something even more shocking was coming.
The dark clouds, streaked with black-and-red lightning, suddenly began to spin like a vortex. At its center, the tip of a divine sword that reached from heaven to earth began slowly descending.
Everyone on Enies Lobby was stunned.
They could only stare, mouths agape, at what was happening.
They couldn't describe what they were seeing.
It was simply too shocking, too far beyond anything they knew.
The sheer spectacle and impact left them unable to think.
The air kept compressing as countless bolts of black-and-red lightning roared. Time seemed to slow. The enormous golden sword, stretching from heaven to earth, gradually revealed its full form. One side of its blade was engraved with the sun, moon, and stars; the other, with mountains, rivers, plants, and trees.
It was a colossal sword, sacred and majestic.
Now, it seemed to have descended from beyond the skies, plunging straight toward the Judicial Tower.
Accompanied by the war song "Victory."
It looked as if it could pierce even the heavens!
Rumble!!!
The gleaming golden sword was unstoppable. The moment it struck the Judicial Tower, the structure began