Dominion and Freedom!

White light tore through the gloom.

Luffy's enormous body came crashing down like the sun.

With wild abandon, he slammed into Imu's dark-red barrier.

Two of the world's mightiest forces locked in a struggle midair.

The moment they collided, all sound vanished.

White and red power held each other in a deadlock above the battlefield.

The point of impact suddenly contracted.

Then a half-white, half-red ring of energy exploded outward.

The ring spread in every direction faster than the eye could follow.

The roar came a beat later, sweeping across the ice field.

It was terrifyingly shrill, as though the sky had been torn apart.

The ice at the center of the battlefield collapsed instantly.

Several nearby slabs of ice were ripped wholesale from the ground.

Tens of thousands of tons of ice were hurled more than ten meters into the air.

Then they were crushed to powder in midair.

The ice field could not withstand it.

Great cracks burst open underfoot and spread in every direction like a spiderweb.

No one could see the bottom of any of them. Freezing air poured out.

Whitebeard, to the east, took the first hit.

A crack ran all the way to his feet.

The king of the Old Era drove Murakumogiri deep into the ice.

The muscles in his arms bulged as he anchored himself in place.

The warriors around him followed suit, driving their blades into the ice and flattening themselves against it.

The same happened on Rocks's side.

The shock wave overturned everything.

Rocks stamped both feet into the ice, leaving two deep pits.

Bracing against the gale, he kept his eyes fixed on the sky.

In the distance, the edge of the icy pit where Loki had fallen began to crumble.

Chunks of ice kept falling, nearly burying the