"Come! Fight to the death!
If you want to escape this place, you must defeat me!
Imu, are you still not planning to make a move?"
With killing intent laid bare in his eyes, Sephiroth looked straight past the Five Elders standing before him and fixed his gaze on the black-robed figure wearing a strange mask and possessing a pair of blood-red pupils.
At those words, Imu's body rapidly swelled in size. Black scales spread across his skin, enormous black bat wings tore through his robe, and a barbed tail swayed through the air. His muscular limbs planted themselves on the ground as his thick neck rose high, his massive dragon head opening its blood-filled maw to unleash a resounding dragon roar.
"Unforgivable sinner, you will pay for your arrogance!"
"Tsk! So you're a Dragon-Dragon Fruit user?
No wonder those parasites living in Holy Land Mariejois are called Celestial Dragons..."
Seeing Imu transform into a colossal Western dragon, a trace of surprise appeared on Sephiroth's face.
"Die!"
Imu suddenly drew in a deep breath, his chest swelling high. Fire flickered within his slightly opened jaws, releasing strands of scorching heat.
Roar—!
As he opened his mouth and exhaled, a straight stream of flame shot forth like a blazing serpent, intending to reduce everything before him to ashes.
Exploding Flame Rend!
Sephiroth spun Netherflame in his hand, and a flaming wheel of light immediately flew from the blade toward the serpent of fire.
Seeing this, the Five Elders standing before Imu hurriedly scattered, trying to evade Sephiroth's attack and avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Whoosh—!
The flaming wheel instantly split Imu's fire breath in two, then continued onward and slashed across his mouth.
The next moment.
Boom—!
With a deafening explosion, firelight burst forth. Imu's massive dragon head was blasted