"End-Time Divine Authority—"
Imu locked both hands around the Reaper Scythe, their voice rumbling up as though from hell.
"All Things Fall Silent!"
BOOM—!
That impossibly thin black line fell with the scythe's edge. The sky seemed to split clean open, and even light was severed in two.
At the same time, Rock took a step forward.
Two electromagnetic fields pulling in completely opposite directions collapsed furiously around his fist, fully forming the purple-black void core.
Conqueror's Haki, Yinglong's power, the Nine Heavens Thunder Method—he compressed them all into that single point.
"Then let's see."
"Whether your eight hundred years can survive this punch!"
"Nine Heavens Divine Form: Return to the Ruins!"
BOOM—!!
The Reaper Scythe collided head-on with Return to the Ruins.
There was no sound.
In that instant, everyone's hearing went blank, as if the world had been muted.
The sky turned a blinding white, and the highest reaches of Pangaea Castle vanished completely into the light.
Then the entire Red Line shuddered violently, sending enormous waves surging in every direction across the surrounding sea.
The evacuating civilians, the medics rescuing the wounded, the Marines still on their feet... everyone looked up at once.
Only in the next second did the sound come crashing back.
RUMBLE—!!
The black scythe edge cut into Return to the Ruins inch by inch. Blood burst from Rock's right arm, and his gold and silver dragon scales shattered one after another.
But Imu fared even worse.
Crack!
The fractures in the End-Time Death Scythe Main Blade widened again. Return to the Ruins was steadily unraveling the authority of the Nineteen Kings along its edge, and the ancient patterns flickered wildly as though wailing.
"BREAK—!!" Imu roared.
Rock refused to retreat even half a step.
BOOM—!!
Both powers exploded at once.
Rock was hurled