"Whoosh!"
A steaming meteor streaked diagonally downward, its shriek tearing at their eardrums.
"Your Majesty, it looks like it's heading straight for us."
"Damn it, move!"
The king and his ministers went pale.
Even from this far away, they could feel the force that could tear a body apart. If that thing hit them, wouldn't they be dead?
Its shriek tore at their eardrums.
The meteor streaked across the sky. The ground buckled wherever it passed, followed by an endless, terrifying storm.
But the worst disaster had only just begun.
In that instant,
the capital's surface was ripped up. Mountains and ravines rose from the deepest parts of the land, while a terrifying surge of air pressure hurled dust and rocks into the sky like a meteor shower. They rained down across the capital and the surrounding cities.
"Help!"
"I don't want to die!"
"Help!"
It was as if a real meteor shower had struck the ground. Nothing remained alive for tens of thousands of meters in every direction.
An entire urban district had been wiped out.
Dense dust obscured the sky. At the very center, steam and dust continued to billow upward as a figure shot into the air.
Blood dripped from his mouth. Disheveled, Chaos watched Roger flash into view. His entire body was like a red-hot iron brand, and his ragged breathing could be heard from far away.
Roger was in a sorry state too, his chest covered in blood.
The two of them had fought all the way here from a medium-sized island, crossing an unknown distance.
The world had been turned upside down in their wake.
"Your Majesty, that looks like the Great Pirate Gol D. Roger and the world's richest man, the Golden Emperor Gaia Chaos."
From a ruined stretch of land far away,