Saint Saturn, Dismembered into Eight Pieces

Amid the ruins, pitch-black Demonic Qi surged once more.

Wrapped in Demonic Qi, Sandworm Saint Peter's enormous head began regenerating once again at a despairingly rapid speed.

He shook his massive head and slowly emerged from the rubble. When his scarlet giant eyes caught sight of Rain's back, the pride he had amassed over eight hundred years was finally replaced by uncontrollable fury.

He stared fixedly at Rain and let out a shriek like a night owl, his roar carrying a faint tremor:

"Damn Extreme Pressure anomaly... Where is Saturn? You actually crossed his defenses? Where is he?!"

Hearing the Sandworm's terrified and agitated questioning, Rain merely snorted coldly.

He slowly raised his left hand, which was covered in spreading Obsidian crystals, and drew the black blade forged from rock from deep within the earth bit by bit. Facing the fivefold Conqueror's Haki storm sweeping toward him once again, a savage, arrogant, utterly brutal smile slowly spread across Rain's cold face.

"Where is Saturn?"

Two clusters of boiling core magma flickered wildly within Rain's dark gray vertical pupils, and his icy voice echoed throughout the ruins of Egghead.

"Don't worry... I'll send you to meet him soon!"

Boom—!!

Before his words had even faded, Rain stomped violently on the ground. His entire body transformed once more into a dark gray streak that tore through the air, charging fiercely at the not-yet-fully-recovered Sandworm Saint Peter with the crushing force of a collapsing mantle behind him!

The reason Egghead's battle had developed into its current state... required turning the timeline back exactly five minutes.

Five minutes earlier, at the center of the battlefield.

While the other four members of the Five Elders, under Saint Saturn's precise strategy of dividing their forces, carried Demonic Qi capable of destroying an era and split into