The Sun and the Earth

When the two collided, heaven and earth fell silent.

There was no sound.

Only light.

Luffy was the searing white light that tore through space.

The Sun God's full fury slammed into the power of the earth erupting around Imu.

The two forces collapsed into each other in an instant.

The air burst under the pressure.

A ring of energy exploded outward from the two of them, sweeping in every direction.

In its path, the ice sheet peeled up like paper, was torn apart, and ground to powder.

The ice within eight hundred meters was shaved flat.

Every jutting ridge of ice, every crack and ravine, vanished.

All that remained was a sheet of ice so smooth it reflected the sky.

Eight hundred meters in every direction.

Flattened in a single stroke.

The energy ring swept across the entire battlefield.

Whitebeard moved first. He drove Murakumogiri backward into the ice, burying more than half the blade.

He clasped both hands over the hilt and planted his feet firmly in place.

The shock wave struck his broad back with a dull thud.

The ice beneath his feet cracked into a spiderweb, but he didn't budge.

Rocks gritted his teeth and summoned Armament Haki.

Dark-purple Haki burst from his skin, sheathing his whole body like a shell.

The impact hit him with a sharp metallic screech.

It shoved him back seven or eight meters, his boots plowing two deep furrows through the ice.

Loki wasn't so lucky.

His badly wounded body was flung into the air.

Iron Thunder seized his wrist, and they slammed together into a surviving slab of rock.

Loki dug his fingers into a crack in the stone, his nails splitting and bleeding. Iron Thunder pressed himself against the rock face, using his weight to keep Loki from being