Kaido's heart filled with intense doubt, and his once-firm convictions began to crumble at this moment.
They had been shaken violently!
He looked up at the sky.
That was the battlefield of Ares and the Golden Lion. It was clearly close at hand, yet Kaido felt as though it were impossibly far away.
Every time he saw Ares,
the gap between them grew at an unimaginable rate.
The repeated blows of reality had left him unable to see any hope of surpassing Ares.
Kaido's bell-like eyes were empty, stripped of all color. "Could it be... that I'll never have a chance to surpass Ares in this lifetime?"
The Devil Fruit ability that gave him the best chance of surpassing Ares had also been obtained by his opponent.
It was a Mythical Zoan!!!
His heart bled.
This was even more despairing than being captured by the Marines!
Meanwhile,
Whitebeard had already moved to stop Linlin, who had fallen into Food Craving Syndrome.
The two sides clashed.
The spectacle was tremendous, and the destructive power was extraordinarily fierce!
Each collision in the sky burst forth like brilliant fireworks, blooming with dazzling radiance.
The noise shook the heavens!
However, to most of the people on Hachinosu Island, this battle was an epic disaster. Flames fell onto the island and began burning fiercely.
Fortunately, those living on Hachinosu Island were either pirates or members of the underground underworld.
When the battle erupted, most of them began evacuating in groups and were protected.
Ares, the instigator of all this, was completely unaware. He instinctively launched all kinds of attacks at the "Golden Lion." Since four dragon claws were not as nimble as arms,
he used the dragon claws to slash out cutting attacks more often, while his enormous dragon tail seemed to have transformed into