Even fully transformed into a dragon, Loa had no desire to take Aokiji's and Kizaru's ultimate attacks head-on. Watching the battlefield turn into a hell of ice and fire, he sucked in a breath through his teeth. "Damn, that's incredible!"
After the explosion, the battlefield fell into Stillness for a moment.
But just then, Aokiji suddenly roared, "Loa! Use Motion!"
What?!
He wasn't giving the guy a second to breathe?
That's downright unfair... But I like it!
A smile tugged at Loa's lips. He bent sharply backward, gathering strength. The muscles in his arm swelled, stretching its Scales, as he poured every drop of Magic Power into his right hand.
Then—
Humm!
An inexplicable pressure erupted between heaven and earth, as though the whole world were trembling. The ice left by Aokiji's attack dissolved before their eyes, then gathered in Loa's palm.
Crack!
Loa clenched his fist around the ball of light and drove it toward the mushroom cloud.
"Dragon Slayer Secret Arts: Cosmic Descent!!!"
Whoosh!
A white beam several times larger than Kizaru's Azure Light-Speed Kick flashed into existence and vanished. It was every bit as fast as Kizaru's Light-Speed Kick; only a faint afterimage lingered on their retinas, dazzling their eyes.
Then the beam plunged into the mushroom cloud and exploded!
Rumble—
The terrifying cold froze even the airborne dust into ice crystals!
Aokiji knew this move of Loa's, but it was the first time he had heard its full name, and it left him baffled. Dragon Slayer Secret Arts? Wasn't Loa himself a Mythical Zoan Ice Dragon?
Slay dragons?
Was he trying to kill himself?
But this was no time to dwell on the name. Aokiji knew Loa well enough to know that the move's strength lay not in freezing, but in piercing.
"Idiot!" he roared. "I