An Unusual Mutation

The instant Shanks stood suspended in the air, the entire sea suddenly developed a bizarre sense of weightlessness.

The gilded cannon muzzles of the twelve Buster Call warships were still gathering laser light when spiderweb-like spatial cracks erupted along the brim of his hat.

"Clang..."

As Griffin's dragon-like cry rang through the heavens upon leaving its sheath, the New World's characteristic storm froze in midair into millions of ice crystals, each one reflecting the Neo Marines' flag belonging to Red-Hair.

Dark-red arcs of lightning spiraled up the blade, and the trail of Shanks' swing burned into the retina like ancient characters.

A bloody vision suddenly surged into the Observation Haki foresight of the vice admirals below—Jin An's full-force eruption of Conqueror's Haki from years ago reappeared at that moment, and the two Conqueror's Hakis spanning time and space resonated on a quantum level.

Ripples spread across Vegapunk's protective barrier aboard the flagship Absolute Justice, yet it could not stop the divine punishment Thunderbolt materializing within Shanks' pupils.

What Griffin brought down was not a sword slash, but a collapsing rift in space-time.

The seawater along its path defied gravity and surged upward, forming an azure crown a thousand meters wide.

The Cipher Pol No. 0 agents forming ranks on the enemy decks suddenly discovered that the Sea-Prism Stone weapons they had always relied upon were turning into quicksand and slipping through their fingers—

This was the absolute suppression of a Conqueror's Haki awakener over the nemesis of Devil Fruits.

The mechanical eye of the flagship commander, "Steel Bone" Grova, blared frantic warnings, while the combat chip implanted in his brain began to melt from overload.

This veteran, who had once participated in the Buster Call against Douglas Bullet, suddenly heard his late wife's call. The memory regression triggered by Conqueror's