Extinction (3)

Storms swept across the sky as two supreme wills clashed again and again, forming a black hole that slowly revolved.

Hovering three feet above the ground, Ye Chen watched Red-Haired Shanks pant atop the ruins. His shadow shifted, and he vanished.

Shanks unleashed his Sword Domain. Sword energy surged skyward around him, laced with overwhelming Haki.

Nitro Fire rolled off Ye Chen as his body began to swell.

"Nuclear Explosion."

Sword energy sprang up, but an explosion that seemed to set the heavens ablaze connected earth and sky. The pressure swept through everything, draining the world of color.

"Cough..."

Shanks flew backward like a streak of light and slammed into the ground, coughing up blood. The smell of scorched flesh rose from his body. Even his Armament Haki had not spared him injury.

"Kaido survived four Nuclear Explosions. I wonder how many you can take."

Ye Chen's figure re-formed amid the rolling flames. He looked at Shanks's pale face.

Shanks said nothing. He raised Gryphon high, bringing down a towering column of sword energy upon Ye Chen.

Ye Chen looked up at the torn sky. His body swelled again.

A blinding white arc flashed. Another mushroom cloud rose through the darkness, ringed by three halos. Everything around it began to vanish, and Shanks was hurled away once more.

Ye Chen's body re-formed. This time, he wasted no effort on feints. He vanished and appeared before Shanks, his body swelling yet again.

"Nuclear Explosion."

Catastrophe swept across the land, reducing everything to ash.

The earth shook as a vast crater opened. Magma gushed from below. From above, it was clear that a tenth of the enormous island had disappeared.

Ye Chen re-formed, his face slightly pale. Looking down, he saw Shanks lying in the rubble, barely alive and covered in blood.