"Boom—!"
The deafening roars from the core battlefield still echoed without end. The three Five Elders monsters that had split off had already become three terrifying shadows of extinction, shrouded in boundless black demonic aura as they carved long trails of death toward the coastline.
Among those three monsters, the fastest was undoubtedly Environment Warrior God Saint Mars, who maintained the form of the monstrous bird Itsumade!
"Skree—!"
A monstrous bird cry sharp enough to nearly tear apart human eardrums rang through the heavens. Saint Mars's bone wings, stretching hundreds of meters wide, beat violently through the air. His massive body instantly broke the sound barrier, drawing a white shockwave that tore through the clouds above Egghead as he plunged from above at a speed the naked eye could not follow.
His target was utterly clear: the Straw Hat Pirates, who had just escorted Vegapunk's many satellites and forcibly broken through CP0's encirclement!
"Not good! Something's crushing down from above!"
On the edge platform of the research stratum's floating skyport, Nami, who had been gripping the railing and gasping for breath, suddenly went deathly pale. To her supreme talent, which could sense every change in the airflow, what was descending from above was not wind at all, but a colossal mountain collapsing in madness.
"Scatter! Everyone, scatter!" Zoro's one eye flew wide open, and Wado Ichimonji in his mouth let out an intensely restless ringing cry.
However, Saint Mars's high-speed charge was simply too fast!
"Rumble—!"
In the blink of an eye, Saint Mars's massive bone wings and talons wrapped in black-red Conqueror's Haki lightning brutally sliced straight across the entire floating skyport where the Straw Hat Pirates stood.
With a colossal blast that seemed to overturn space itself, the incomparably sturdy white alloy platform forged with future technology shattered