"Cough, cough, cough~"
The billowing dust gradually settled.
Rubble tumbled everywhere as King and the others crawled out, blood at the corners of their mouths. Their eyes were filled with panic and helplessness.
He was too strong.
Would everyone really be buried here today?
"Captain."
"Mr. Kaido."
Nearby.
Black Maria, Ulti, and the others found Kaido in a pitiful state. His chest was drenched in blood, and his face was deathly pale now that he had returned to his normal size. If not for his tenacious will to survive, he would probably have been a goner.
They had lost.
Lost completely.
Compared to a year ago, it was practically a one-sided slaughter.
"What do we do now?!"
"Damn it."
"Are we all going to die here today?"
The sky had already darkened.
Everyone in the Beasts Pirates was on edge, fear spreading through the crew. Above the crater, the Golden Emperor had raised his right hand toward the sky. Prometheus and Zeus raced toward him, merging into a gigantic, orange-red lightning sun.
Below, an aura of evil began to burn from the Golden Emperor's head to his feet, then poured into the orange-red lightning sun.
Before their very eyes, the orange-red lightning sun turned garish and multicolored. It kept swelling, wreathed in seven-colored evil flames that swept through the surrounding air and filled it with black-red lightning.
Most terrifying of all, a fearsome face appeared on its surface.
"Taiyi: Emperor's Wrath!"
When the seven-colored evil flames had completely covered the sky, Chaos still looked listless and drained. The battle had ended so quickly because he simply couldn't get excited.
He just wanted to finish up and go lie down.
However.
Just as he was about to hurl the evil sun, he suddenly looked toward the western horizon. His whole body