Lightning Bone

The moment the giant World vessel turned into cinders and powder amid the thunder, it seemed to shatter the last remnants of World's surviving sanity.

At that moment, he hovered mid-air, his body freezing for half a second as if even time itself had fractured.

Immediately after, violent emotions surged into his heart like a breached floodgate.

His crimson eyes stared fixedly at the distant naval warship, leaving only the purest, most primitive madness and desire for destruction in his gaze.

It was as if as long as that warship existed, this world held no meaning whatsoever.

...Do not move.

His voice was low and hoarse, like a curse squeezed from the depths of his throat.

"You..."

"No--one--is--allowed--to--leave!!!"

The final roar completely tore through the air, his emotions completely spinning out of control at that moment.

World abruptly pulled a cannonball from his chest, his movements rough and trembling.

"Multiplication: Hundredfold Cannon!!!"

Accompanying his hysterical roar, he hurled it fiercely.

--BOOM!!!

The instant the cannonball was thrown, the air was forcibly compressed and torn apart, emitting a piercing shriek.

The originally ordinary metal warhead swelled crazily in flight, its volume, mass, and speed undergoing a terrifying multiplication all at once.

In a mere fraction of a second, that cannonball transformed into a black sphere that blotted out the sun.

Like a falling meteor, it bore down on the naval warship with an unstoppable sense of oppression!

The sky seemed to be cleaved in two by this gigantic shell, shadows spreading rapidly to shroud the entire sea area.

The warship shuddered violently, and the marines on deck all looked up, feeling their chests tighten as though their breathing was being ruthlessly choked off by an invisible giant hand.

"What... what kind of monster attack is that?!"

"That strike... the warship will