The Celestial Dragon jolted awake in agony, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets as he let out a bloodcurdling scream.
Before the scream had even faded, two more icy arcs flashed across him.
Both arms were severed at the shoulders.
Luo Tian's gaze was indifferent as he slightly raised his left hand.
An invisible force of gravity instantly seized the twitching, blood-spurting body, now missing all four limbs, and flung it backward.
Behind him, more than a hundred similar figures already clung densely to a translucent "wall" formed by gravity.
They were all Celestial Dragons, but now they had only their torsos and heads remaining. Their severed limbs were bloody, mangled stumps, making them human torsos in the truest sense.
The blood had not yet clotted; it continued to gush from their wounds.
The first ones to be hung up had long since stopped struggling, their faces frozen in utter pain and terror. They were dead!
Luo Tian blurred and vanished from where he stood, hunting down his next prey.
At the other end of the battlefield, the Roger Pirates, who had attacked from the island's eastern shore, collided head-on with the main force of the Rocks Pirates, surging in like a tide from the west.
They crashed together in the center of the half-destroyed town. Swords, guns, and shouts instantly became a tangled din.
"The treasure! It's over by the town square!" someone shouted, sending the greedy tide surging even higher.
Roger swept his gaze across the battlefield and shouted, "Rayleigh, get Shakky out of the encirclement! I'll handle things here!"
"Got it!" Rayleigh held Shakky tightly as he raced through the battlefield, with cannon fire raining down around them.
"Rayleigh's running off with Shakky!" A sharp-eyed pirate immediately started shouting.
"Damn! I'm so jealous!"
"Take down