Nika's awakening

Yet, in that ten-millionth of a second, just as the five monsters' mightiest divine power was about to crash down in full and the battle's tension reached its absolute peak—

"Boom!!"

A deep, resonant drumbeat, brimming with boundless freedom and rhythm, suddenly thundered from deep within a pile of rubble behind the battlefield, without the slightest warning!

The sound was not piercing, yet it seemed to possess a strange divine power capable of penetrating souls and forcibly awakening the vitality of the entire planet. In an instant, it drowned out the fivefold thunder of Conqueror's Haki sweeping across the ocean!

"Boom! Da! Da! Dong!!"

"Boom! Da! Da! Dong!!"

It was a unique, joyous rhythm, as though the gods themselves were laughing heartily. With every beat, waves of uncanny elasticity rippled through Egghead's ravaged ground.

At the sudden, eerie drumming, all five Elders, who had been about to strike, froze in midair, their massive spider bodies and horned forms going rigid at once. In those five pairs of eyes glowing with sickly green light and spectral flames, eight hundred years of accumulated terror and horror abruptly erupted!

Standing at the very front, Rain turned his head slightly and glanced toward the rubble behind him.

There lay Straw Hat Luffy, gravely injured and unconscious, his entire body locked in a profound struggle because he had not awakened in Wano Country. Now, atop his bowed head, his once-black short hair was slowly transforming at a speed that defied reason, moving with the drumbeats as it became a brilliant, floating white, as pure as spotless clouds!

The Drums of Liberation... after the most desperate pressure of this lifetime, they finally resounded across the heavens above the ruins of this Future Science Island!

Billows of scorching steam, like spotless white clouds, surged from beneath Luffy's