The vast battlefield had long been engulfed by endless attacks.
Those watching from afar had retreated again and again.
Yet no matter how far back they withdrew, everyone's eyes and Observation Haki remained fixed on Red-Haired Shanks at the center of the assault.
Faced with the Five Elders' sudden joint attack, they desperately wanted to know what means Red-Haired Shanks possessed to contend with them.
What trump card did he have to force Imu, who had been hiding behind the scenes, to reveal himself?
"Roar!"
A dragon's roar erupted like Falling Thunder from the ninth heavens.
Amid the attacks, scarlet scales rapidly spread across Red-Haired Shanks's body. In the next instant, he transformed into a divine dragon.
At the same time, jet-black Armament Haki surged across his entire body like a tidal wave, amplified by the power of the Rule-Rule Fruit.
His enormous, several-hundred-meter-long body instantly gave off the impression of being forged from steel, black light radiating from every inch of him with a soul-shaking intensity.
His dragon eyes, filled with killing intent, abruptly shifted.
The muscles in his massive dragon tail suddenly tightened. White shockwaves burst forth, and without the slightest flourish, the tail lashed out violently.
Boom!
Heaven and earth trembled violently.
The attacks closing in from all directions stalled for an instant.
A peerlessly fierce shockwave erupted from Shanks at the center.
The two rock dragons charging straight at him shattered on the spot wherever it passed.
The Airflow Vortices filling the sky seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand and collapsed with a deafening crash.
The countless mercury spears raining down were blasted apart once more, reverting to droplets of mercury that were swept away by the aftershock.
For a moment, the destructive power of that black-gold dragon tail, fused with the power