Chiba stood silently high in the sky.
He did not even look down at the battlefield below.
His abyssal Six-Tomoe Rinnegan swept casually across the sea.
"Is this the power you're so proud of?"
His calm voice reached every ear.
He did not shout.
He did not roar.
But with those words came a despair so heavy it felt real.
BZZT—
The sky split wide open.
Dark red lightning erupted from Chiba without warning.
This was not Chakra.
It was Advanced Conqueror's Haki, pure and overwhelmingly powerful!
The air made a teeth-grating sound as it shattered.
It was as though ten million panes of glass had been smashed by hammers at once.
Invisible waves of Conqueror's Haki became a devastating red storm, sweeping out from Chiba in every direction.
The sea surface plunged hundreds of meters.
The raging water had no time to rise into waves before it was crushed into dense walls of water.
Under that terrifying pressure, the World Government's army faced its end.
"Urgh—"
A CP member comparable to a Vice Admiral could not last even a second.
His eyes rolled back, foam poured from his mouth, and he toppled onto the damaged deck.
That was only the beginning.
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
They fell like wheat before a scythe.
Thousands of ruthless CP Agents collapsed in swaths beneath the red storm of Conqueror's Haki.
There were no screams, no struggles.
Anyone below Admiral Level could not even remain conscious.
The Haki obliterated their awareness in an instant.
Within three breaths, the entire World Government force fell deathly silent.
Only a few dozen Admiral Level fighters remained on their feet, struggling to hold out.
Kong, the former commander-in-chief, had driven both knees deep into the rock.
Every muscle in his body trembled violently, and veins bulged beneath his