BOOM!!
Black demonic flames surged skyward, and a massive, pitch-black scythe took full shape.
Its crescent blade blotted out half the sky. Along its spine, nineteen closed eyes sat in a neat row.
Black flames dripped steadily from the edge. Before they even reached the ground, the stone below split silently.
Imu reached out and closed five fingers around the shaft.
Whoosh!
All nineteen eyes opened at once.
[Nineteen Kings · End-Time Death Scythe!]
Imu raised his head, the eternal calm with which he had once looked down on all living beings gone from his face.
"Joy Boy is gone."
Rock flexed his dragon claws, his knuckles cracking.
"I know."
"I'm the one who got rid of him."
Imu's gaze turned thunderously dark.
"No one in this world can stop me now."
The next second, the death scythe descended!
Whoosh!
Just one slash.
Rock beat his dragon wings and instantly shifted hundreds of meters sideways.
But the instant the blade grazed his side, his expression changed for the first time. The gold-and-silver dragon scales on his shoulder split open.
Splurt!
Blood sprayed out.
Stranger still, a small patch of lightning around the wound dimmed.
Imu gripped the scythe with both hands, his voice seeming to rise from beneath the earth. "Now you finally understand what the Nineteen Kings left behind."
Imu stamped the scythe's shaft down.
BOOM!
Darkness spread in an instant. Pangaea Castle, the ruins, the sky, the clouds... even the light began to fade away.
[Divine Authority Awakening · Dayless Demon Kingdom]
The entire world seemed to be dragged into eternal night, shadows writhing all around.
Rock could clearly feel his Haki and vitality being slowly drained away.
Worse still—
Click.
The first ring-shaped eye opened on the ground. Across walls, rubble, clouds, and shadows... tens of thousands