Whole Cake Island's center.
The Queen of a Thousand Souls descended.
Charlotte Linlin had forcibly pushed her aura to the peak of the Emperor Class, with even signs of breaking through.
She stood amid magma, thunder, and fire, her massive body blotting out half the blaze as countless souls entwined behind her into a wailing cloak.
Every soul screamed, and every scream seemed to pierce the eardrums of everyone on the battlefield.
Sakazuki rose from the river of lava, magma still dripping from his chest.
Most of his Marine Admiral cloak had been destroyed, yet his gaze remained cold and hard.
Linlin looked down at him, her sinister laughter shaking the entire ruin.
"MAMAMAMA—!"
"You can still stand, you little magma brat!"
"Then let me see how many times you can get back up!"
Sakazuki did not answer. Scalding magma continued to drip from his arms, burning through the shattered cake ground beneath his feet.
He took a step forward, and the ground beneath him split apart with a roar.
"Magma Domain: Earth Rift!"
Crimson magma erupted from crack after crack like countless boiling fire serpents, instantly spreading into a domain of lava.
Magma flowed everywhere, the ground collapsed, and the heat warped the air.
But Linlin merely raised her foot and stomped down.
"Boom!"
The monstrous force wrapped in myriad souls crashed down, crushing the magma beneath her foot.
Lava exploded, waves of fire rolled backward, and Linlin's huge body charged straight out of the magma.
Her soul cloak let out countless shrieks. The scorched marks that had just been burned onto her body rapidly healed as soul power filled them in.
"Useless!"
"I have all of Totto Land now—!"
The next instant, Napoleon slashed down from above.
"Elbaf Spear: Soul Slash!"
A soul sword beam stretching a thousand