Seeing that the Rain God was about to self-destruct, Zoro tried to force himself to stand.
But he couldn't get up!
The Great Thousand Worlds had drained all of his strength. Even standing was now extraordinarily difficult.
Chopper's massive body stood behind him. The two waited in silence, staring fixedly ahead, waiting for the monster to collapse with a thunderous crash.
But the anticipated self-destruction never came.
The entire battlefield was deathly silent.
Even the blizzard had stopped.
A sudden change.
The scarlet vortex in the Rain God's chest jolted violently.
That was its core.
An engine gone out of control.
The vortex accelerated madly, dark-red light darting chaotically within it.
Its speed broke past the limit.
A piercing grinding noise tore through the storm.
Like tens of thousands of circular saws cutting through ice.
The air was sucked into a frenzied cyclone. Ice shards were swept inside and instantly ground into powder.
"Buzz—"
The low-frequency roar became a heavy hammer.
It smashed against their hearts.
The ice field trembled.
The edge of the vortex finally gave out, and fine cracks burst across the black crystals.
The cracks were like bloodthirsty spiderwebs, instantly crawling across its chest.
Dark-red demonic energy shrieked as it burst from the gaps, each stream a blade of air.
The entire vortex shone with a blinding light.
Like a star on the verge of collapse.
The core had reached its breaking point.
With an utterly muffled boom, the scarlet vortex exploded.
A red shockwave spread outward.
The giant lost its support.
Its more than twenty-meter-tall body had lost its backbone.
Like a skyscraper stripped of its steel frame.
It collapsed in an instant.
An enormous amount of thick, pitch-black liquid poured forth.
Like the Milky Way bursting through a dam.
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