Bang bang bang bang!
A river of magma filled the sky, crushing toward the vine-covered tree trunks like a raging tidal wave.
Yet the instant it made contact, the trunks, which should have been easily destroyed by the magma, were instantly covered in pitch-black Armament Haki.
That was right!
No one present had seen wrongly.
The aura and form emanating from those thousands upon thousands of vine trunks were exactly the same as the Armament Haki they knew.
Before they could react, the magma filling the sky was pierced through first.
The densely packed trunks shot straight at Akainu like spears.
As he watched the dense barrage rapidly enlarge in his pupils, the arrogance on Akainu's face vanished in an instant.
At such close range, especially when even the tree trunks were coated in Armament Haki—
It was simply impossible for Akainu to evade the attack by using elementalization again.
The only option was to withstand it head-on.
"Armament Reinforcement!"
Chaotic thoughts flashed through Akainu's mind before he let out an angry roar.
The instant he crossed his arms before his chest, pitch-black Armament Haki rapidly spread across his body.
The next moment, countless vine trunks stabbed toward him like spears.
Bang bang bang!
Dull impacts echoed between heaven and earth, like rain striking banana leaves.
Faced with thousands upon thousands of vines, Akainu's three-to-four-meter-tall body was swallowed up in an instant.
The densely packed trunks resembled tentacles as they rapidly coiled around Akainu's body.
"Kizaru, stop watching and save Akainu! If these strange tree trunks finish forming their attack, Akainu will end up no better than Gild Tesoro!" Sengoku roared urgently.
Even the thousand-meter giant Gild Tesoro had transformed into after awakening his Devil Fruit ability could not withstand the strangling of those trunks.
Not to mention Akainu's comparatively